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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Blackberry Users Want An iPhone

Posted: March 17, 2010 at 5:12 am

Research-In-Motion (RIMM) shareholders have been concerned for some time that the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is such a good product that consumers would begin to switch to Jobs & Co. products. Those ...
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Google China Partners Want Compenation If Search Firm Leaves

Posted: March 17, 2010 at 4:57 am

If Google (GOOG) closes its Google.cn Chinese search portal, it will be tough luck for the American company which looked forward to getting an increasing shares of its revenue from the ...
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Signs Of The Apocalypse: Honda Recalls 410,000 Cars

Posted: March 17, 2010 at 4:42 am

Every car sold in America, and perhaps the rest of the world, is broken or dangerous to drive so it seems. Toyota (TM) has recalled more than eight million cars. Ford ...
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Who Really Wants Broadband?

Posted: March 17, 2010 at 4:16 am

The FCC has argued to Congress and the public that the US is well behind most of the rest of the civilized world in terms of its distribution of broadband ...
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Blockbuster May Run Out Of DVDs

Posted: March 17, 2010 at 3:59 am

Blockbuster (BBI), the world's largest movie rental chain, has all sorts of problems. It is nearly insolvent. Its model of renting DVDs from stores has been largely bypassed by online  operations ...
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Media Digest 3/17/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 17, 2010 at 2:50 am

Reuters:   China took a hard position on the value of the yuan despite US pressure. Reuters:   Google's (GOOG) ad partners in China expressed concerns about its plans. Reuters:   If banking ...
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CIT Earnings… Sins of Thy Bankrupt Father (CIT)

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 8:21 pm

CIT Group, Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is out of bankruptcy, has John Thain as its new CEO, and is trying to get on with life in 'the new normal' in a ...
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As Google Nexus One Goes To AT&T, Lack Of Enthusiasm Goes With It

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 2:13 pm

Google (GOOG) has created a version of its Nexus One Android-powered phone that will work on the AT&T (T) wireless network. That is a large step up from the T-Mobile network ...
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Exxon & XTO Merger Approved: Energy Mergers Galore Coming? (XOM, XTO, BJS, BHI, SLB, SII)

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 2:05 pm

When Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) announced that it was going to acquire XTO Energy Inc. (NYSE: XTO)for  $31 billion in an all-stock transaction ($41 billion after debt assumption; with ...
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FOMC Takes Its Sweet Time on Rate Hike

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 1:27 pm

As expected, despite a belief that rates need to rise from here, the FOMC announced decision on interest rates leaves the 0.0% to 0.25% Fed Funds rate target unchanged.  A ...
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Nike & CBS Look to Tiger Woods (CBS, NKE)

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 12:32 pm

If all goes smoothly, the future of Tiger Woods and the media may finally be back to him being the biggest golf star ever rather than the subject of tabloids ...
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Hints of the GE Dividend Hike (GE, MMM, UTX)

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 11:33 am

As we have been expecting for a month or more, General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is now acting as though it is probably closer to raising its dividend than what ...
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S&P To Greece’s Rescue (NBG)

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 10:22 am

Standard & Poor's may have just come to the rescue of Greece in a better or more clear manner than what the European nations have tried to do all along.  ...
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Bracing for the Bernanke Put

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 8:58 am

The FOMC decision on interest rates is expected today at or around 2:15 PM EST.  Most market pundits are expecting no change to the Fed Funds Rate.  The target of ...
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Amazingly, Lehman Lives On Despite Bankruptcy (LEHMQ)

Posted: March 16, 2010 at 8:33 am

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ) is still alive as a stock despite the company being dead.  It turns out that there is actually a little asset value left here, as ...
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