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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Wii Sales Jump For Nintendo In December

Posted: January 6, 2010 at 6:24 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre Sales of Nintendo's flagship Wii video console skidded this past fall. There were concerns among the company's shareholders that the product was losing its novelty and ...
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Only 1.5% Of Cadbury (CBY) Shareholders Have Backed Kraft Offer

Posted: January 6, 2010 at 6:00 am

Kraft (NYSE:KFT) says that 1.52% of Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) shareholders have backed its offer to buy the UK firm. The offer will stay open until February 2, but that probably will not matter. Kraft ...
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GM Gets No Relief Under New CEO Whitacre

Posted: January 6, 2010 at 5:43 am

Ed Whitacre, the former AT&T (NYSE:T) CEO and current GM chairman, fired the car company's chief and put himself in charge. Whitacre said the he would shake up the old ...
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China Passes Germany As World’s Top Exporter

Posted: January 6, 2010 at 5:11 am

Germany is no longer the world's top exporter. The Global Trade Information Services say that China exported $957 billion of goods in the first ten months of last year. Germany's ...
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Job Satisfaction May Not Matter

Posted: January 6, 2010 at 4:53 am

The press made a great deal of a report that job satisfaction hit in 2009 what is an all-time low in a 22-year-old survey conducted by The Conference Board. The new research ...
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Media Digest 1/6/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 6, 2010 at 4:03 am

Reuters:   A major overhaul of the global financial system is expected in 2010. Reuters:   Kraft (NYSE:KFT) got a 1.52% acceptance of its Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) bid. Reuters:   Gold rose above $1,120. ...
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Asia Market And Europe Open

Posted: January 6, 2010 at 3:29 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .5% to 10,721. The Hang Seng was up .6% to 22,417. The Shanghai Composite fell .5% to 3,254. At the open in Europe, the ...
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Signs Of The Apocalypse: Rich Lose Homes, Pending Homes Sales Off

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 7:37 pm

Pending home sales fell in November as the National Association of Realtors index for that part of the market fell to 96 in November from 114.3 in October. The sharp drop ...
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Cramer’s 2010 Counterterrorism Stock Picks (ASEI, OSIS, FLIR, COGT, NICE)

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 6:45 pm

It seems every market pundit has their outlook picks for 2010, and Jim Cramer is no different.  Last night was Cramer's "Energy Shortage Stock Picks for 2010" and on CNBC's ...
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Surprise Auto Winner…. SIRIUS XM (SIRI, DTV)

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 3:57 pm

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) may have been one of the surprise winners so far in 2010.  While there are still many problems at SIRIUS XM, the company now ...
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Chinese ADRs Take Off (SEED, FEED, CAGC, CAAS)

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 3:15 pm

Chinese agriculture stocks, as measured by Tickerspy's Chinese Agriculture Stocks Index (*CHAGR), are up over 6% today.  Gains in Chinese agriculture stock were led by crop seed company Origin Agritech ...
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VW Big Loser In December Domestic Car Sales

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 2:48 pm

Most analysts believe that the VW merger with Porsche is about to create the largest car company in the world which will have annual sales greater than both GM and ...
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Tech Issues Ahead of CES 2010 (MMM, UPG, PLXT, INTU, NETL, GRMN, GOOG, S, TXCC, INTC, AMD, AAPL)

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 12:05 pm

It is the first week of January, which means one thing for lovers of consumer electronics: CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, takes place in Las Vegas.  The event kicks off ...
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Apple (AAPL) Apps Downloads At 3 Billion

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 10:52 am

Downloads from the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store now out-number the population of the People's Republic of China by a margin of two-to-one. Apple announced that more than three billion apps have ...
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Apple (AAPL) Goes Mobil

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 10:39 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is about to announce that it will buy mobile ad company Quattro Wireless for $275 million, according to an exclusive report by AllThingsD. Quattro ...
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