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Daily Archives: November 7, 2008

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Ford (F) Earnings: Still Cutting Costs, No Plans For Better Cars

Posted: November 7, 2008 at 7:16 am

Ford (F) had one piece of good news. It is still cutting costs. It is on track to cut annual expenses by $5 billion compared with 2005.For obvious reasons, the ...
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Motorola (MOT) Takes On Water From Samsung And Qualcomm

Posted: November 7, 2008 at 6:22 am

Motorola (MOT) is a first class example of what Ivy League business school professors do not want their students to know. It might frighten the horses. At some companies, there ...
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China: Worse Than Anyone Imagined

Posted: November 7, 2008 at 6:05 am

There have been some minority reports from pessimists like NYU economist Nouriel Roubini which say that China's economy may be faltering as badly, if not worse, than America's. No one ...
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Auctioning Detroit In Pieces: $50 Billion For GM (GM)

Posted: November 7, 2008 at 5:47 am

GM (GM), Ford (F), and Chrysler managements are shuttling in and out of Washington trying to get both the people leaving and the people coming in to lend them $30 ...
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Microsoft (MSFT): A Final “No” To Yahoo! (YHOO)

Posted: November 7, 2008 at 5:13 am

It may have occurred to Microsoft (MSFT) that Yahoo! (YHOO) is so badly wounded by its own poor management that a buyout of the portal company would be more trouble ...
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Airline Bankruptcies: A Great Tradition (DAL)(LCC)(CAL)(UAUA)

Posted: November 7, 2008 at 4:00 am

One of the recurring themes found in the history of the airline industry is the ability of carriers to go into Chapter 11 often emerging with little debt and fewer ...
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A Post-Election Shift Against Free Trade?

Posted: November 7, 2008 at 3:54 am

By John Tamny, Real Clear MarketsIn his Tract on Monetary Reform, John Maynard Keynes made the essential point that when money is debased, enterprise is discredited, and trade barriers soon ...
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Media Digest 11/7/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 7, 2008 at 3:52 am

According to Reuters, the government is set to announced the country's tenth straight month of jobs losses.Reuters reports that Chrysler is burning through it cash quickly and the company may ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 11/7/2008 (TM)(HBC)

Posted: November 7, 2008 at 3:19 am

Markets in Asia were mixed.The Nikkei fell 3.6% to 8,583. Shares in Toyota (TM) fell on a profit warning.The Hang Seng rose 3.3% to 14,238. HSBC (HBC) rose.The Shanghai Composite ...
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