Quantcast

Daily Archives: June 1, 2009

Blue hills

Nintendo May Have To Cut Wii Price To Keep Its Lead

Posted: June 1, 2009 at 4:58 am

Nintendo is facing more competition for its remarkably successful Wii and DS products. Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE) are both coming out with consoles that appeal to the casual game ...
Read Full Story »
Water lilies

Improvement In China Exports May Indicate Strength In Other Emerging Markets

Posted: June 1, 2009 at 4:45 am

New data from China shows that its manufacturing sector is more stable than it has been in a year and that exports are moving up very modestly. According to Reuters, ...
Read Full Story »
Winter

The Economy: Another Page Out Of The Worst Case Scenario Handbook

Posted: June 1, 2009 at 4:31 am

Robert Zoellick, the head of the World Bank, recently said that the current efforts to right the world’s economy are wholly inadequate. It is a position in which he has ...
Read Full Story »
bank

A $1 Trillion A Year Deficit Interest Rate Payment

Posted: June 1, 2009 at 4:23 am

Like the Texas Hold’em player who pushes every last dime into the center of a poker table, the federal government is now “all in” with its commitment to push the ...
Read Full Story »
bear

The Death Of The UAW

Posted: June 1, 2009 at 4:10 am

The UAW under Walter Reuther was arguably the most powerful union in the United States negotiating contracts with all of The Big Three on what became a pre-set cycle. Reuther ...
Read Full Story »
newspaper

Media Digest 6/1/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 1, 2009 at 3:01 am

Reuters:   GM (GM) will file for Chapter 11 today. Reuters:   Geithner told China its dollar assets are safe. Reuters:   A judge approved the sale of most of Chrysler's assets to ...
Read Full Story »
Sunset

Asia Markets And Europe Open 6/1/2009

Posted: June 1, 2009 at 2:26 am

Markets in Asia were sharply higher. The Nikkei rose 1.6% to 9,678. The Hang Seng was up 3.5% to 18,803. The Shanghai Composite rose 3.4% to 2,721. At the open ...
Read Full Story »