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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Yahoo! Search Finally Intergrates With Bing, Challenges Overseas May Be Too Great

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 4:52 am

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) says it has finally integrated its search function with Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing, part of the  deal that the two companies set over a year ago. The ...
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Media Digest (8/25/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 4:04 am

Reuters:   BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) reported strong profits and now faces questions from its investors about Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters:   Global economic problems will shadow a big Fed meeting. Reuters:   ...
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S&P Slaughters Ireland’s Credit Rating

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 7:26 pm

Ireland's stock market dropped 6% yesterday. It is any wonder? After the close of the markets in Europe and the US, Standard & Poor's cut the Republic of Ireland's long-term ...
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Apple’s TV Rental Plan Can’t Be Ignored By Media Companies

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 6:48 pm

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: APPL), which revolutionized the music business with 99 cent digital downloads, is poised to do the same thing with television.  The idiot box may never be the ...
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S&P Cuts Ireland (IRE, AIB, CRH)

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 5:20 pm

Standard & Poor's may not have the same clout it did during the first rounds of debt ratings cuts in Europe after missing the mortgage and debt bubble in America, ...
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Rising Airfares Are Not Good News For Airlines

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 4:19 pm

Airlines, which have made an art out of nickel-and-diming the public with new fees, are now raising fares. This is no time for investors to rejoice. According to Reuters, Rick ...
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CBO: Stimulus Package Adds Up to Artificial GDP Improvement

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 3:44 pm

The Congressional Budget Office says that in the second quarter the effects of $787 billion package added 1.7% to 4.5% in GDP, cut the unemployment rate by .7 to 1.8 ...
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When Builders Rise on Awful Housing Data (MTH, RYL, LEN, KBH, BZH, XHB)

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 2:19 pm

Sometimes logic can't be used when trading economic data and stocks.  The National Association Of Realtors report shows a drop of about 27% this morning for July's existing home sales ...
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China & Oil: Talking Down The Price (SNP, BHP, POT, CEO, BP)

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 1:00 pm

What is the easiest way to drive down a price without stopping orders?  Telling suppliers that you may have to cut orders in the months ahead.  There are many things ...
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Chicago Fed Chief Turns Pessimistic On Housing

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 11:39 am

Chicago Fed President Charles Evans offered an unusually downbeat assessment of the economy today. It was one which raised concerns about a continued sharp drop in the housing market and the ...
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Stem Cells Versus The Constitution (GERN, STEM, ASTM, CYTX, NBS, BTIM)

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 11:03 am

Stem cell stocks are getting hit pretty hard this Tuesday.  On Monday came a ruling from a U.S. district judge which effectively blocks the federal government from funding research which ...
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Jobs Situation Ugly: Manufacturers Alliance

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 10:42 am

The Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Quarterly Economic Forecast  predicts that inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) will expand by 2.9 percent in 2010, followed by 2.6 percent growth in 2011.  The forecast is ...
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Real Estate Market Plunges

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 10:18 am

Real estate sales have just plunged by a nearly unimaginable amount. According to the the National Association of Realtors, existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors 8/24/2010

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 8:57 am

Updated throughout the day. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) will up its bid for 3Par (NYSE: PAR) (various) Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) will offer a research application at the Apple Inc (NASDAQ: ...
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The Housing ‘Solution’ Is No Solution At All

Posted: August 24, 2010 at 8:48 am

By John Tamny of Forbes Worse than efforts to prop us housing are the suggestions from money managers and economists that we need to help more Americans achieve homeownership altogether.  ...
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