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Daily Archives: August 4, 2008

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Intel (INTC) Goes For The Kill With AMD (AMD) And Nvidia (NVDA)

Posted: August 4, 2008 at 5:40 am

Intel (INTC) is about to hit the market with a new set of graphics chips and they are aimed directly at the hearts of Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD (AMD) which ...
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HSBC (HBC) Earnings: Storm Flags Go Up For US Banks

Posted: August 4, 2008 at 5:29 am

HSBC (HBC) is the latest money center bank to be clobbered by more write-downs. For the most recently reported quarter net profit fell to $7.72 billion from $10.9 billion a ...
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How Slow Will Video Game Sales Get? (SNE)(MSFT)

Posted: August 4, 2008 at 5:10 am

Nintendo owns so much of the video game console market that it may be coming up against market share problems. But, the entire industry could be facing the issue of ...
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GM (GM) And Ford (F) Can See The Future In Chrysler Financing Troubles

Posted: August 4, 2008 at 4:50 am

Chrysler had a fair amount of trouble re-financing a relatively large portion of its debt. The company's finance division was only able to raise $24 billion to replace a $30 ...
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What The 2009 Recession Looks Like Today

Posted: August 4, 2008 at 4:32 am

Orchard Lake, Michigan, August 3rd, 2008. A modest-sized office building with room for twenty tenants just north of this town of well-to-do homeowners does not have a single tenant. It ...
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Ethics Watch: Bear Stearns Fails To Disclose CEO’s Severe Illness

Posted: August 4, 2008 at 4:29 am

In an interview with Fortune that will be published shortly, James Cayne told a reporter that he was in the hospital for 10 days back in September, suffering from sepsis ...
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Carl Icahn: Lost In A World He Predicted (MOT)(YHOO)(BIIB)(BBI)

Posted: August 4, 2008 at 4:24 am

Carl Icahn has evolved over the years, first rising to fame a "corporate raider", followed by an ill-fated journey into actual management at the helm of TWA and, most recently, ...
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Media Digest 8/4/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 4, 2008 at 2:56 am

According to Reuters, the Fed will sit tight on rates as oil prices moderate.Reuters writes that Verizon (VZ) labor talks have continued past their dealine.Reuters reports that Chrysler renewed its ...
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Asia Markets 8/4/2008 (HMC)(LFC)(SNP)

Posted: August 4, 2008 at 2:19 am

Markets in Asia were sharply lower.The Nikkei fell 1.2% to 12,933. Honda (HMC) fell 5.8% to KDDI rose 4.6% to 657000.The Hang Seng dropped 1.6% to 22,493. China Life (LFC) ...
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