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Monthly Archives: November 2008

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Wal-Mart (WMT): Ambrosia For The Working Man

Posted: November 30, 2008 at 5:40 pm

The new Wal-Mart (WMT) super-store in Columbia, Kentucky is longer than the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise which is docked on the West Side of Manhattan. The retail outlet’s ceilings are ...
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A Century Of Cars: Does Detroit Deserve A Bailout?

Posted: November 30, 2008 at 5:29 pm

Near the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, visible from several major highways, is a four-story tall replica of a Uniroyal tire. It was built for the 1964 World’s Fair in New York ...
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E-Commerce Spending Flat For “Black Friday” (AMZN)(EBAY)(WMT)(TGT)

Posted: November 30, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Some figures picked up in the media from research house ShopperTrak showed retail sales on Black Friday up 3%, which was much better than the most gloomy forecasts. The level ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) In Talks To Buy Yahoo! (YHOO) Search For $20 Billion?

Posted: November 30, 2008 at 5:59 am

Microsoft (MSFT) is well along in talks to control and eventually buy Yahoo!'s (YHOO) search business for $20 billion, according to a report in the Times of London. AllThingsDigital says ...
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Holiday Sales: A Miracle On 34th Street?

Posted: November 29, 2008 at 7:47 pm

Santa is for suckers. At least, that is the conventional wisdomThe 2008 holiday season was supposed to be the worst in years, or, perhaps decades. Analysts have forecast retail sales ...
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GM (GM): A Debt For Equity Swap No Answer To Larger Problems

Posted: November 29, 2008 at 11:47 am

GM (GM) would like to get some unsecured debt-holders to swap their crumbling paper for equity in the failing auto marker. It may appear that this would solve a problem, ...
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OPEC Fiddles While Venezuela Burns

Posted: November 29, 2008 at 11:12 am

Saudi Arabia says OPEC needs to drop production until oil moves back above $75 a barrel. As the largest member in the cartel, it would seem that the kingdom would ...
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Bill Gates’ Investment Vehicles Continue To Buy AutoNation (AN), Sparking Share Rally

Posted: November 28, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Just days after boosting his stake to 10%, Bill Gates' investment vehicles, Cascade Investment and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, continue to scoop up shares of battered auto retailer ...
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Clearwire, Cha-Ching (CLWR, S, CMCSA, TWC, GOOG, CLWRD)

Posted: November 28, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ:CLWR) will be trading with the "CLWRD" ticker for the first 20 trading days.  While many ticker changes are not good, this one is.  Clearwire and Sprint Nextel ...
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Fannie Mae (FNM): Reverse Splits As The Last Refuge For The Weak

Posted: November 28, 2008 at 11:16 am

Reverse spilts are the tools of companies which cannot keep their share prices up through good management and sound operation. Most firms that resort to them want to keep their ...
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Ford’s (F) Strange Rally

Posted: November 28, 2008 at 10:52 am

Ford (F) made another perverse move up today rising as much as 22% to $2.64.At this juncture, even if the federal govenment does extend loans to the US car companies ...
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Regional Banks Refusing TARP Funds (BXS, CFR, FCF, HCBK, PRSP, WFD)

Posted: November 28, 2008 at 8:47 am

Bailouts, handouts, subsidies, and free money be damned.  In times when most large financial institutions are lining up for their share of TARP funds, there are many regional banks out ...
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Community Banks Refusing TARP Funds (AUBN, HARL, UBCP, AMNB, KRNY)

Posted: November 28, 2008 at 8:02 am

In a time of trouble, crisis, and inability to raise capital, there are many banks out there which have decided to refuse the government's bailout TARP funds.  These banks appear ...
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Are Gold Miners Getting Well? (ABX, GG, NEM, AU)

Posted: November 28, 2008 at 7:50 am

In the past month, gold mining stocks have hit new 52-week lows. On October 27th, Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:ABX) bottomed out at $17.27, Goldcorp (NYSE:GG) hit $13.84 on the same ...
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Media Digest 11/28/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 28, 2008 at 4:34 am

Accoring to Reuters, Japan's industrial output fell sharply in October.Reuters reports that stores are courting careful customers this Black Friday.Reuters report that Panasonic shares fell to a five year low ...
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