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24/7 Wall St. TV: Viacom + Time Warner = Next Big Media Merger

Posted: December 3, 2009 at 12:20 pm

No one would be surprised to see Sumner Redstone, the 86-year-old head of Viacom (NYSE:VIA), and Jeff Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX), wearing disguises to their private meetings in coffee ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: GM China Sales Pass US For First Time In History

Posted: December 1, 2009 at 2:09 pm

GM is being pulled out of US soil by its roots. For the first time in history the company posted monthly sales in a foreign country that were higher than ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: The Mortgage Mess: Government To Push Private Sector To Do What Government Cannot Do

Posted: November 30, 2009 at 5:06 am

Congress and the Administration put a $787 billion stimulus package into place on the assumption that its many programs will supply capital to strategically important industries.  The ultimate goal was ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: American Consumers Spent $41.2 Billion On Black Friday Weekend!

Posted: November 29, 2009 at 2:12 pm

The "official" numbers on Black Friday retail activity were mixed and the mixture did little to help analysts have a reasonable  picture of what the rest of the holidays will bring. ...
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Telegent Files for IPO (TLG)

Posted: November 23, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Telegent Systems, Inc. has just become the latest company to file to come public via an Initial Public Offering.  No terms were listed, but the initial prospectus filing is for ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Sony e-Reader To Ship Late Adding To Company Woes

Posted: November 18, 2009 at 5:42 pm

The management at Sony (NYSE:SNE) looks more and more like "The Gang That Couldn't Shot Straight." Its TV screen business is losing money. Most months, sales of the PS3 fall ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: China Pushes US To Raise Interest Rates Which Would Undermine Recovery

Posted: November 15, 2009 at 7:49 am

The Federal Reserve and most economists believe that keeping US interest rates at near zero has been critical to the recovery of the American economy. Even with rates at historically ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Should Starbucks (SBUX) Serve The Deranged?

Posted: November 14, 2009 at 8:49 am

Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) is s fine place for the homeless and deranged to spend their time. The purchase of one cup of coffee gives them access to comfortable chairs, bathrooms, and ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: GM Doubles China Sales In October

Posted: November 9, 2009 at 9:54 am

GM sold 166,911 cars and light trucks in China last month. The No.1 US auto company sold 177,603 vehicles in its domestic market in the same period. The FT reports ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: McDonald’s (MCD) Consumer Service Lesson: Seconds Count

Posted: November 9, 2009 at 4:08 am

McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) spends a great deal of its test kitchen time trying to beat the clock. It has occurred to the fast food chain that a customer who expects to ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Homeowners Faced With Foreclosure Can Rent Their Own Homes

Posted: November 5, 2009 at 1:14 pm

The government's many programs to keep the number of mortgage defaults from growing has grown by one. The new Dead for Lease program will allow some homeowners who face foreclosure to ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Another Pay Outrage: University Presidents Making Over $1 Million

Posted: November 2, 2009 at 1:36 pm

Wall St. executives are apparently in for their best pay day in history, despite the fact that the collapse of the credit markets and the beginning of one of the worst recessions ...
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24/7 WallSt TV: Kraft (KFT) Does Its Shareholders No Favor: Gets Hostile With Cadbury

Posted: November 1, 2009 at 6:04 pm

The efforts of Cadbury's board to keep the company out of the clutches of Kraft (NYSE:KFT) will likely fail because no second bidder has emerged. The Times says that Kraft ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: CNBC Manages To Lose 50% Of Its Audience

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 8:00 pm

It may be that when the stock market is not moving up or down 20% a month that people lose interest. That seems to be the case if the new ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Apple, The DVD Killer

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 3:49 pm

The music industry never saw the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPod coming. The iPod was an expensive toy when it was introduced in 2001. There was no reason to think it would ...
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