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Monthly Archives: October 2009

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No Stock Market Bubble In China

Posted: October 30, 2009 at 7:07 am

In a clear display of how much money is chasing investment in the equities markets in China, the new small cap stock market, ChiNext, had a spectacular debut. The average value of ...
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Sony (SNE) Says Michael Jackson Movie Makes $20 Million In A Day

Posted: October 30, 2009 at 6:19 am

The film of Michael Jackson's rehearsals for his British concert tour was a big risk for Sony (NYSE:SNE) which apparently put up $60 million for the rights to the footage. ...
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Small Books Stores, Hurt By Amazon, Try To Strike Back

Posted: October 30, 2009 at 6:08 am

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Target (NYSE:TGT), and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) are apparently sharply limiting the number of books customers can buy under their programs to sell popular titles at discount prices. Book publishers ...
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Galleon Warnings May Have Come A Decade Ago

Posted: October 30, 2009 at 5:49 am

The SEC missed a number of signals in the Bernie Madoff case. Some concerns were raised by his clients and Barron's years before he was caught. It seems that a similar ...
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The New York Times’ Coming Jihad Against The Huffington Post

Posted: October 30, 2009 at 5:22 am

The old media is running out of time. The online editions of The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO), New York Times (NYSE:NYT), and Time, Inc (NYSE:TWX) properties do well, but not well ...
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GDP Forecast: Weak Q4 Followed By Tremendous 2010

Posted: October 30, 2009 at 5:07 am

The Commerce Department announced GDP growth of 3.5% for the third quarter, putting an exclamation point to the end of the recession. The power behind the improvement was, as usual, ...
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Media Digest (10/31/2009) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 30, 2009 at 3:57 am

Reuters:   The US economy is stable but risks remain according to Geithner. Reuters:   JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) raised concerns about Galleon in 2001. Reuters:   As many as five million Americans have been ...
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Asia Markets (10/30/2009)

Posted: October 30, 2009 at 3:25 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose 1.5% to 10,034.  Sony (NYSE:SNE) cut the forecast of its full-year loss The Hang Seng was up 2.2% to 21,731. CNOOC (NYSE:CEO) ...
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Les Vegas Sands Wins on Cost Cuts (LVS, WYNN)

Posted: October 29, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Wynn Resorts Ltd. (NASDAQ: WYNN) may have set a high bar for Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) and its earnings report today, but cost cuts helped the company to ...
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Stock Market Absorbs $500+ Million in Secondaries Today (AAWW, DTG, HUB-B, OCFC, SWSI, VECO)

Posted: October 29, 2009 at 1:35 pm

The market has just absorbed over $500 million worth of stock in secondary offerings today alone.  We have offerings that came from Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAWW), Dollar ...
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Corel: Strangest Go-Private, M&A, & IPO Story of the Decade (CREL, MSFT, ADBE)

Posted: October 29, 2009 at 12:53 pm

It has become commonplace to see initial public offerings from earlier private equity holdings that were once public and taken private.  Yet it is very odd to see a company ...
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Key Takeaways From Yahoo! Analyst Day (YHOO)

Posted: October 29, 2009 at 9:59 am

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) had its analyst day on Wednesday and the comments started coming out late yesterday.  This was the first real show and tell session it has had ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/29/2009) (SNI)(NWS)(YHOO)

Posted: October 29, 2009 at 9:15 am

Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.45 AM EST   There is not as much cash on the sidelines as most investors expect.  (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) has frozen hiring on the team ...
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GDP Shows Recession End, Sort Of

Posted: October 29, 2009 at 8:39 am

The Commerce Department has reported in Q3-2009 Gross Domestic Product figures.  We had 3.2% as the official estimate, but Goldman's drop late yesterday took expectations lower.  Bloomberg had consensus at ...
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Exxon Mobil, The Great Earnings Bust (XOM)

Posted: October 29, 2009 at 8:28 am

If you think oil companies make too much money regardless of what the numbers are, you might consider looking at just how sensitive the companies are to the price of ...
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