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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Video Game Sales Hit Lowest Level Since 2006

Posted: September 10, 2010 at 5:10 am

August video games fell to their lowest level in four years. The belief that sales had begun to recover, based on numbers from late spring and early summer, has proved ...
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Testosterone Damages Corporate M&A

Posted: September 10, 2010 at 4:45 am

The high levels of testosterone that flows through the veins of young CEOs can throw off efforts for companies which are at work on mergers and acquisitions according to a ...
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Nokia CEO Finally Walks The Plank, Replacement A Surprise

Posted: September 10, 2010 at 4:23 am

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has finally been pushed out as Nokia's (NYSE: NOK) CEO and will leave the company and its board on September 20. He will get a small consolation prize ...
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Media Digest 9/10/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 10, 2010 at 3:52 am

WSJ:   The CEO of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) left the company. Reuters:   BP plc (NYSE: BP) will delay Q3 results as it accounts for costs of the oil spill. Reuters:   The ...
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Harvard Endowment Posts 11% Return, Under-Performs The Market

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 7:09 pm

The Harvard Endowment, the largest of any university in the US posted an 11% return for the period which ended on June 30. That return was less than that for ...
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Ebay Gores Craigslist

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 6:14 pm

Ebay announced today that  Chancellor William B. Chandler III of the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled in the company’s favor in a shareholder suit filed against Craigslist, and its majority ...
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The 13 Worst Recessions, Depressions, and Panics In American History

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 6:14 pm

A recession is generally defined as two quarters of GDP contraction as noted by the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The GDP contraction definition ...
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BioHealth Business Daily, Major News Breaks (QCOR, DNDN, GERN, STEM, ASTM, CYTX, NBS, BTIM, PSTI, SVA, VVUS, OREX, ARNA, SNTS, GENZ, SNY, TEVA, AMGN, ACOR, CELG, HGSI, BIIB, GILD, EXAS, ZGEN, DYAX, IDXX, VPHM)

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 1:57 pm

Biotech and BioHealth stocks are on the move today and there is more news in the emerging sector than there has been on a single day in months and months.  ...
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Solar Stocks Brightening (TSL, CTDC, STRI, STP, YGE, LDK, SOLF, JASO, WFR, STP, SPWRA)

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 1:48 pm

Just over a week ago, several solar stocks had a nice jump as the DJIA rose some 200+ points. Not all the gains were made by simply hanging on the ...
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Apple App Store: A Gift For Adobe Flash

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 1:06 pm

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will open its App Store developer program to a number of new types of software, which appears to include the Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) Flash technology. We are ...
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Consumer Spending Falls Down And Can’t Get Up

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 12:49 pm

Consumer spending is down. That statement is true based on most data collected by the government and private sector. The mystery and misery for retailers and the general economy is ...
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Obama’s Tax Cuts Reveal Ignorance of Past Mistakes

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 11:29 am

By John Tamny of Forbes President Obama's proposed tax cuts for plant and equipment address a U.S. economy from at least 100 years ago, would harm up and coming businesses searching for investment thanks ...
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Top Active Trader Alerts (MCD, ARMH, GERN, FUQI, QCOR, BRCD)

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 9:05 am

There are several big stocks to watch this morning.  Day traders and active traders will want to watch McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD), ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH), Geron Corporation (NASDAQ: ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (9/9/2010) Jobless Claims, McD Sales, OPEC

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 8:49 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims: Labor Gets A Number Headed the Right Way

Posted: September 9, 2010 at 8:36 am

The Labor Department is out with its newest figure of weekly jobless claims and the tally fell quite a bit down to 451,000.  Bloomberg had the estimate at 470,000.  The ...
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