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Day: April 8, 2010

Housing

Housing Stumbles Badly, Again

Home sales and home prices are supposed to improve in the spring despite the fact that government programs to encourage purchases will go away. Defaults must fall to fuel the recovery. If they do not the inexpensive inventory on the…

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Technology

How Apple Killed The Future Of Search

Today, Google gets over 9.5 billion searches per month in the United States. Although search engines such as Microsoft’s Bing compete for a share of the market, they present no real threat…

Douglas A. McIntyre

All Day: April 8, 2010 Articles

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Breaking Greece’s Back: Another S&P Downgrade?

The capital markets are already suspicious that Greece will not be able to close a bond support deal with other eurozone countries and the IMF. Ratings agency Fitch told Greece that it needed a transaction…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Power Companies Call for Price Hike

By staff reporter Xu Ming, Caixin Five Chinese power companies have submitted a joint application to regulatory authorities to offset thinning profits from tighter energy supplies

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Tons of Hope in GM’s Terrific Loss

By Jake Simpson The latest financial news from the beleaguered auto industry appears grim at first glance. Hampered by a $2.6 billion payment to its union, General Motors reported a $4.3 billion loss in…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/8/2010)

Updated throughout the day. A senior member of a Goldman Sachs (GS) large hedge fund left the firm (Bloomberg) Zale is being pursued by three private equity operations which include TPG, Golden Gate Capital,…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago

The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Watch 4.8

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 and some have more than…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 17 years ago