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Daily Archives: September 1, 2008

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Google (GOOG) Browser: Crush Mozilla, Challenge Microsoft (MSFT)

Posted: September 1, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer has dominated the browser world for nearly a decade. It has also been part of legal accusations that the world's largest software company used the ubiquity ...
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American Consumer Circa 1973

Posted: September 1, 2008 at 3:48 pm

There may be some continued hope among the ludicrously optimistic that the current economic conditions will lead to a "soft landing" making it look a bit like most recent slow ...
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Another Stent Failure For Boston Scientific (BSX)

Posted: September 1, 2008 at 11:26 am

Investors have another reason to bail out of Boston Scientific (BSX). It has been in a battle with the medical research community for over a year fighting the perception that ...
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China’s Boat Gets Slower, US Economy To Benefit

Posted: September 1, 2008 at 10:44 am

The hopes of the Chinese central government that its economy can avoid a recession fade with each passing month. The CLSA China Purchasing Managers Index was unusually weak in August. ...
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Apple (AAPL) Get Closer To China

Posted: September 1, 2008 at 8:22 am

As Apple (AAPL) moves into India and Russia, it still needs an official foothold in the largest cellular market--China. On the mainland there are over 500 million cellular accounts.The consumer ...
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Alitalia: US Airlines Are Not Off The Hook (AMR)(UAUA)(NWA)

Posted: September 1, 2008 at 5:45 am

Alitalia went belly up over the weekend. The causes were the same as for most recent airline failures. Fuel is too high, and do are debt-loads. Passenger traffic is being ...
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Gustav And OPEC Conspire To Alter Oil’s Math

Posted: September 1, 2008 at 5:29 am

With Gustav shutting most of the oil and gas production out of the Gulf of Mexico, it is unavoidable that prices for the commodities will rise. The US government will ...
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Media Digest 9/1/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 1, 2008 at 4:38 am

According to Reuters, Hurricane Gustave is heading toward New Orleans after shutting down most oil production in the Gulf of Mexico.Reuters reports that Commerzbank will buy Dresdner Bank for $14.5 ...
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Asia Markets 9/1/2008 (CHL)(SNP)

Posted: September 1, 2008 at 4:17 am

Markets in Asia were sharply lower.The Nikkei fell 1.8% to 12,834. The Hang Seng fell 1.7% to 20.906. China Mobile (CHL) fell 1% to 89.60. China Petroleum (SNP) rose 1.3% ...
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