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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Bono Becomes The Worst Investor In America

Posted: March 24, 2010 at 3:04 am

Bono, the Irish rock star, has put significant money into Elevation Partners, arguably the worst run institutional fund of any size in the United States. Bono is listed as one ...
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Media Digest 3/24/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 24, 2010 at 2:57 am

Reuters:   A Chinese newspaper accused Google (GOOG) of helping US intelligence Reuters:   JP Morgan (JPM) is close to a huge tax refund deal with the FDIC. Reuters:   Oil dropped below ...
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How Did The Large US Airlines Stack Up Last Year?

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 2:02 pm

By Robert Herbst For 2009, the nine largest airlines accumulated just over $4 billion in net losses. 2008 wasn't much better with a $3.5 billion loss. So far, 2010 projections show a ...
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ConocoPhillips and Lukoil Exit… Some or All (COP, XOM, BRK-B)

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 1:04 pm

ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is living up to its promise, or at least trying to live up to the promise of selling some $10 billion in assets.  According to reports from ...
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How’s KB Home’s Housing Recovery-Where Do You Live?

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 12:25 pm

KB Home (NYSE:KBH)  just reported first quarter 2010 numbers. Data the company disclosed reveals a possible housing recovery. Yet there are wide geographic disparities in the state of the housing ...
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Walmart Goes 3D TV

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 12:03 pm

3D television screens for the home are relatively new. Sony (SNE) has said that it will base a good deal of its future as a consumer electronic company on the technology. ...
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BioHealth Business Daily (ARAY, BEC, BPAX, CTIC, CHTP, DVAX, NABI, ONTY, SQNM, SOMX, WHRT)

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 11:25 am

Today's BioHealth Business Daily is full of some of the names you might expect to see, but it also has some unusual names as well.  We are seeing share price ...
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A Look At The Consequences As Google Leaves China

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 9:44 am

By John Hudson of The Atlantic Wire Google has officially shut down its Chinese search site. Users visiting Google.cn are now redirected to a Hong Kong portal, Google.hk where search ...
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Buffett and Berkshire.. Going After the Booze (BRK-B, BRK-A)

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 8:26 am

Warren Buffett likes to buy companies with a very long time frame.  In fact he likes the "Forever" trades.  It seems that Buffett decided booze was a good deal.  Berkshire ...
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Some Of America’s Largest Companies Not On “Most Ethical” List

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 8:03 am

Ethisphere released its annual list of "The World's Most Ethical Companies."  The research identified 100 companies. A committee of  leading attorneys, professors, government officials and organization leaders put together the criteria. After ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/23/2010)

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 7:47 am

Updated thoughout the day. Carl Icahn will push for the sale of Biogen (BIIB) (Bloomberg) Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) may be more liquor distributors after picked up Empire  (Bloomberg) Nintendo ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMSC, ADP, BIDU, HMA, PAYX, PETM, SQNM, SKS, TIF, WSM)

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 7:24 am

These are this Tuesday's top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from early morning Wall Street research notes: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. Automatic ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Watch (3/23)

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 7:11 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter ...
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Time Warner’s New Growth Plan: Buy MGM

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 4:42 am

Time Warner (TWX) has spun out its Time Warner Cable (TWC) operation and AOL (AOL). That has left the company with TV programming, magazine, and studio assets. Wall St. has ...
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Nintendo Brings 3D To Video Games

Posted: March 23, 2010 at 4:17 am

Nintendo has been able to keep a lead over Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE) in the high-end game console business. Its Wii routinely outsells the Xbox 360 and PS3. Now Nintendo ...
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