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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/23/2010)

Posted: February 23, 2010 at 8:27 am

Updated throughout the day. Canada's Brookfield may bid against Simon Property Group (SPG) for the assets of real estate from General Growth. (Bloomberg) The deal for GM to sell Hummer to ...
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Look For Toyota CEO To Exit After Visit To Congress

Posted: February 23, 2010 at 5:59 am

The press has pointed out that Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota, does not spend a lot of his time out of the office shaking hands and kissing babies the way that ...
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India Joins The Race For Oil Reserves

Posted: February 23, 2010 at 5:29 am

One way to predict the future price of oil is to consider how many companies and countries are aggressively pursuing new reserves. China has closed deals around the world in crude-rich ...
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Apple, LL Bean, And Amazon Make BusinessWeek Customer Service List, But So Does Toyota’s Lexus

Posted: February 23, 2010 at 5:02 am

The problem with customer satisfaction surveys is that, by their nature, they look back in time and not forward. Bloomberg BusinessWeek announced the results of its customer service poll recently. ...
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Media Digest 2/23/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 23, 2010 at 3:58 am

Reuters:   The $15 billion jobs bill advanced in the Senate. Reuters:   Toyota (NYSE:TM) faces a US criminal probe. Reuters:   KKR and TPC are close to a deal to buy Morgan Stanley's ...
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Asia Market And Europe Open

Posted: February 23, 2010 at 3:22 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .5% to 10,352. Toyota (NYSE:TM) and Honda (NYSE:HMC). The Hang Seng rose 1.1% to 20,600. The Shanghai Composite dropped .7% to 2,983. ...
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Toyota And Barry Bonds

Posted: February 22, 2010 at 7:50 pm

Toyota (TM) should never have had a chance to be the No.1 car company in the world. It began as one of the small corporations built during the industrialization of post-WWII ...
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Reply.com Files for IPO (RPLY)

Posted: February 22, 2010 at 5:24 pm

Reply! Inc., an operator of a proprietary auction marketplace that facilitates online locally targeted marketing, has filed today for an initial public offering.  While no financial terms were disclosed, the ...
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Walmart Buys VOD Firm Vudu, May Not Change Industry Landscape

Posted: February 22, 2010 at 3:04 pm

The New York Times reports that Walmart (WMT) has bought video on demand hardware and software company Vudu. The firm's service is built into set-top boxes and Blu-ray devices. The paper reports that ...
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Movie Rental Risk… Wal-Mart & Vudu (WMT, NFLX, BBI, CSTR, TIVO)

Posted: February 22, 2010 at 2:50 pm

Deciding who wins and who loses in movie rentals has proven to be a difficult task other than stating the obvious.... Online distribution and delivery distribution have major benefits over ...
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Toyota Lied?

Posted: February 22, 2010 at 2:43 pm

"Toyota Lied" is a good headline and catchy enough to get a reader to look further into a story. In this case catchy is not where it ends. According to ...
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SPAC Death: Atlas Acquistion Winding Down (AXG)

Posted: February 22, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Atlas Acquisition Holdings Corp. (AMEX: AXG) is a special purpose acquisition company, but not for very long.  The company just announced that its board of directors has approved the dissolution ...
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Clarification of Millipore and Thermo Fisher (MIL, TMO, PLL)

Posted: February 22, 2010 at 1:08 pm

It was just a while ago that Millipore Corp. (NYSE: MIL) exploded upwards and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) saw a significant drop.  The reason was a "merger agreement" ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings (Week 7)

Posted: February 22, 2010 at 11:43 am

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product ...
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Deustche Lufthansa-The US Carrier Connection

Posted: February 22, 2010 at 11:26 am

One of the top three international airline carriers, Deutsche Lufthansa, just announced a four-day strike. British Airways appears set to announce the results of a strike ballot in early March ...
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