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Monthly Archives: January 2009

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What Happens To Gas Supply If Russia Goes Broke?

Posted: January 20, 2009 at 6:32 am

Russia has begun to ship gas to Europe through the Ukraine again. The dispute over whether Ukraine firm Naftogaz was siphoning fuel is now over, at least for now.Russia faces ...
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With Fuel Concerns Receding, Airlines Face Revenue Drop (AMR)(DAL)

Posted: January 20, 2009 at 6:11 am

The airline industry keeps drawing the short straw.A year ago, the carriers were being pounded by high jet fuel price due to rocketing crude. Now the price of oil is ...
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The EU, The Antitrust Capital Of The World

Posted: January 20, 2009 at 5:55 am

IBM (IBM) has become a target of antitrust regulators in the European Union. Several media sources say that a US company called T3 Technologies claims that IBM refused to offer ...
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Carlos Slim, An Investigative Reporter’s Dream, Saves The Times

Posted: January 20, 2009 at 5:37 am

The New York Times will probably not be writing a piece on the fact that Carlos Slim has occasionally been accused of creating his great wealth in part because he ...
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Media Digest 1/20/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 20, 2009 at 3:58 am

According to Reuters, Chrysler and Fiat in are in talks about a possible partnership.Reuters reports that Carlos Slim will invest $250 million in The New York Times.Reuters writes that China ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 1/20/2009

Posted: January 20, 2009 at 3:23 am

Markets In Asia were mostly lower.The Nikkei fell 2.3% to 8,066.The Hang Seng was off 2.6% to 12,993.The Shanghai Composite rose .4% to 1.994/At the open in Europe, the FTSE ...
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The Economy: A Portrait Of The 2012 Inauguration

Posted: January 19, 2009 at 8:16 pm

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger".--Kennedy Inaugural Address 1961."We must do ...
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Cisco (CSCO) Moves Into One Of Tech’s Worst Sectors–Servers (VMW)(IBM)(HPQ)(JAVA)(MSFT)

Posted: January 19, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Check with Sun (JAVA). The server end of the tech industry has poor margins and unforgiving competition. HP (HPQ) has a server division. It grew only .7% in the company's ...
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Why Would Fiat Want Chrysler? (TM)(HMC)(GM)(F)

Posted: January 19, 2009 at 1:57 pm

Fiat is very near an agreement with Chrysler to take a piece of the No.3 US car company. The deal will need the blessing of the Treasury Department which is ...
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This Coming Week’s Top Earnings Projections (JNJ, AAPL, BNI, EBAY, AMD, GOOG, MSFT, GE, SLB)

Posted: January 19, 2009 at 12:33 pm

This week is the launch of earnings season, and we have outlined the companies which we believe will have the largest impact on their sector or on the overall market. ...
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Fox Business: If It Can’t Sell News, It Can Peddle Junk

Posted: January 19, 2009 at 11:56 am

Fox Business has been sending us PR alerts off and on for the last several business days. Usually the editors here would find them helpful. We are not allowed to ...
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EU Recession Gets “Official” Status

Posted: January 19, 2009 at 10:14 am

The EU finally owned up to what everyone already knew. It will face its first recession since it was formed over ten years ago. It was nothing more than a ...
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To Unfreeze Credit, Stop Coddling the Debtors

Posted: January 19, 2009 at 9:15 am

John Tamny, RealClearMarketsLast fall, in an Oct. 16 interview with CNBC's Larry Kudlow, outgoing U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson addressed the imposition of the Troubled Asset Relief Program on banks, ...
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The Next Threat To The Financial System: Corporate Defaults (NYT)(CHTR)(LVLT)(SIRI)

Posted: January 19, 2009 at 6:43 am

The next big threat to bank earnings may be corporate defaults on debt, much if it originally supplied by the banks themselves. The irony is that the problem could be ...
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Can money alone save The New York Times (NYT)?

Posted: January 19, 2009 at 6:17 am

What is it with billionaires and newspaper publishers?Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecommunications tycoon, is consideringincreasing his investment in the New York Times Co. (NYSE:NYT) byseveral hundred million dollars, according to ...
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