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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/24/2012) Costco Earnings, Oil Below $90

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 6:29 am

Oil has hit an extraordinarily low price, below $90 a barrel for WTI crude. That is the lowest level since October. It shows no inclination to spike back up. PMI data from Europe and ...
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A Look Back At Largest IPOs

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 6:18 am

A quick review of the 25 largest US IPOs ever shows how badly Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has done in early trading. Most of the company's on the list have tremendous revenue, ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/23/2012) China GDP Trouble, Fiat’s New Car

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 6:43 am

The World Bank’s new “East Asia and Pacific Economic Update” forecasts that China’s GDP growth will only be 8.2% in 2012, which is a substantial come down for a nation that ...
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GM Could Be Upgraded To ‘Investment Grade’ at Moody’s

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 4:27 pm

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) may soon get to be an 'investment grade' company on its credit ratings.  While this might not mean much on the equity level of the company, ...
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Facebook Deathwatch: Who Gets Blame

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 9:53 am

Shares of Facebook Inc. (NYSE: FB) traded down nearly -7.5% in pre-market action this morning and opened down at $32.59 after closing at $34.03 last night. The stock is down ...
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Zynga’s 15% Stock Loss — Lemmings over the Cliff

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 6:16 am

Zynga’s (NASDAQ: ZNGA) shares are down 15% over the past two days, a little more than those of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) after its initial public offering. There are several critical difference ...
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How Far Could Facebook’s Shares Fall? To $28

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 6:39 am

At some point during the past two weeks, Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) expert bankers raised the price range of its initial public offering from between $28 and $35 to between $34 and ...
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Media Digest (5/21/2012) Reuters, WSJ, Financial Times

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 6:31 am

Alibaba buys back a 20% share held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) for a combination of cash and preferred shares worth $7.1 billion. (Reuters) The heads of Samsung and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/16/2012) New Greek Elections, Oil Prices Fall

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:43 am

It appears increasingly likely that concerns about the future of Greece will depress equity markets worldwide. Politicians in the country have failed to set a coalition government, despite several efforts. ...
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As European Car Sales Slide, the Industry Gets Desperate

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:29 am

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) announced that April sales of cars and light trucks in the region were “6.9% less than in the same month of 2011.” That means only 1,017,912 ...
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Media Digest (5/16/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:28 am

The number of shares Facebook will sell rose 25% and the company could raise as much as $16 billion. (Reuters) Greeks take hundreds of millions of dollars out of banks ...
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GM Ad Cancellation Does Not Hurt Facebook IPO

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:26 am

Investors do not seem to care that GM (NYSE: GM) has dropped Facebook as an advertising medium. The press made a great deal of the news, but GM's investment was ...
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Big Changes to Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to Z

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 5:05 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings for the Berkshire Hathaway empire. This cut off date is as of ...
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GM Drops Facebook Ads

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 4:27 pm

In a glancing blow to Facebook Inc.’s coming IPO, one the of the three largest US advertisers in all media, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM), will stop advertising on the ...
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America’s Hottest Brands

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:18 am

24/7 Wall St. asked CoreBrand to identify America’s hottest brands. We wanted to know the biggest brands that were the best known and most well regarded. Read: America's Hottest Brands ...
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