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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Small Business Saves The Economy’s Bacon

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 9:25 am

There are a host of reasons why small business employment numbers should have been anemic in July. But, they weren't. As a matter of fact, small business kept overall job ...
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Karmazin Tries To Talk Up Sirius-XM on CNBC Interview (SIRI, XMSR)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 8:30 am

Mel Karmazin of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) came on CNBC this morning defending the combined Sirius-XM in an exclusive with David Faber.  This has shares somewhat higher by ...
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Fed Extends Brokerage Rescue Deal

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 8:26 am

In another move to save the finances of almost every man, woman, and child in the US, the Fed has accounced that it will extending a credit facility that it ...
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TOP PRE-MARKET ANALYST DOWNGRADES (ALU, EMN, FDG, GET, TAP, SEPR, SNE, WYE)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 6:38 am

These are not all of the analyst downgrades and negative calls we are seeing this morning, but these are some of the stand out calls this Wednesday morning:Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) Cut ...
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TOP PRE-MARKET ANALYST UPGRADES (BWLD, CEDC, CVS, HSC, MER, MYGN, NATI, ORCC, SVVS, SCHN, WAG)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 6:37 am

These are not all of the analyst upgrades and positive we are seeing this morning, and many upgrades look merely like "less negative" calls than anything. Here are this Wednesday's ...
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Nintendo: Wii Uber Alles (MSFT)(SNE)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 5:16 am

It has to gall corporate leviathans Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE) that Nintendo trumps them in the video game console business. The modest Japanese company did it again in the ...
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Siemens (SI) Shows It True Colors, A Lesson For GE (GE)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 4:53 am

Most of the executives at Siemens (SI) are being dragged off in handcuffs as part of the prosecutions in the company's bribery scandal. But, the few managers who remain are ...
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Detroit Bites The Hand That Feeds It (GM)(F)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 4:33 am

Chrysler is exiting the car leasing business and GM (GM) and Ford (F) have a foot out the door. All of those SUVs that come back off lease sit on ...
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Dell (DELL) Hopes To Hunt And Kill Apple (AAPL) iPod

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 4:15 am

Dell (DELL) wants to accomplish what no other company has been able to do over the last five years. It wants to hunt down and kill the Apple (AAPL) iPod ...
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Whole Foods (WFMI) Buy-Out Of Wild Oats Back In Limbo

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 3:02 am

Here's something you don't see everyday: a recently completed merger facing more anti-trust scrutiny. But an appeals court has ruled that evidence of antitrust concerns in the Whole Foods/Wild Oats ...
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Media Digest 7/30/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 2:57 am

According to Reuters, oil is nearing a 20% drop from its peak, moving into bear market range. Reuters writes that HP (HPQ), Yahoo! (YHOO), and Intel (INTC) are looking at ...
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Asia Markets 7/30/2008 (CN)(CHU)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 2:25 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher.The Nikkei rose1.6% to 13,368. Mazda rose 3.3% to 623. Nissan rose 3% to 837.The Hang Seng rose 1.8% to 22,647. China Netcom (CN) rose ...
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What is Obamanomics?

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 6:29 pm

Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, who just finished a well-received trip to Europe, is turning his attention to economics.Obama today was scheduled to meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ...
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Housing Market Continues To Plunge

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 6:24 pm

The housing market continues to be in freefall.The S&P/Case-Shiller Index plunged 15.8 percent in May, the biggest decline since records began being kept in 2001. All 20 Metropolitan Statistical Areas ...
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Cramer Attacks John Thain of Merrill Lynch (MER, NYX)

Posted: July 29, 2008 at 5:28 pm

On CNBC's MAD MONEY tonight, Jim Cramer came out and added the Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) CEOJohn Thain to his "Wall of Shame" full of CEO's that he wants to ...
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