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Media Digest (5/14/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:16 am

Several senior JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) executives will leave the bank in the wake of its $2 billion trading loss. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) ex-CEO Scott Thompson has thyroid cancer. (WSJ) ...
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Tesla Glides by Poor Results (TSLA, F, GM, TM, HMC)

Posted: May 10, 2012 at 11:59 am

Over the past 12 months, the best performing car maker stock is -- drum roll -- Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA). Shares in the maker of electric vehicles (EVs) are ...
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Luxury Cars On A Rise

Posted: May 10, 2012 at 7:15 am

The luxury car market around the world continues to explode as the relatively small portion of the globe’s population which is rich consumer at extraordinary levels. VW reports that ...
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What’s Important In The Financial World

Posted: May 10, 2012 at 6:52 am

Sony (NYSE: SNE) said it would finally turn around is prospects and make money in the next year. Bumbling CEO Sir Howard Stringer is gone. Sony's core problems are not. ...
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Toyota’s Earnings Surge and Brand Power

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 6:32 am

After a three-year period in which Toyota (NYSE: TM) recalled more than eight million cars worldwide for problems that included faulty accelerators, as well as natural disasters in Japan and ...
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Media Digest (5/4/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 6:30 am

Facebook sets its IPO to raise more than $10 billion. (Reuters) The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) files suit against Walmart (NYSE: WMT) over bribery allegations in Mexico. (Reuters) ...
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Posted: May 3, 2012 at 4:08 pm

The major US stock indexes opened mostly flat this morning following a softer-than-expected report from the Institute for Supply Management on non-manufacturing growth (our coverage here). The report on new ...
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Europe Results Rip GM

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 8:44 am

Results from Europe hurt GM (NYSE: GM) sales in the latest quarter, hurting numbers as it did with Ford (NYSE: F) GM's Opel division has been a problem for some ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/3/2012) Chrysler Plants Open, Roubini’s Iran Worries

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 6:52 am

The government of Spain got lucky. It planned to raise over 2 billion euros in debt. The amount sold was more than that -- 2.5 billion. The international capital markets ...
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The Cars Americans Will Not Buy

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 6:46 am

April car sales data are out, and they are not cause for celebration. Though sales are up 2% overall from last April, they have cooled somewhat since the February and March ...
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Chrysler Keeps Plants Open

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 6:22 am

The improbable recovery of Chrysler continues, just three years after a government supported Chapter 11. Most analysts believed that Chrysler would never have the funds to launch enough new vehicles ...
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Media Digest (5/2/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 6:43 am

Moody’s warns that Japan’s finances will be hurt if it cannot get acceptance of a new sales tax. (Reuters) New Chinese factory data indicate that the industry’s activity may have ...
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Caterpillar Labor Problems and Burdens of Success

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 6:37 am

Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) faces a relatively small strike at its Joliet, Ill., plant. The members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers will walk out when their six-year contract expires. ...
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North American Sales Hike Ford Revenues, Profits (F, GM, TM, HMC)

Posted: April 27, 2012 at 8:50 am

Higher revenues and profits in its North American region boosted first-quarter results at Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F). The company posted EPS of $0.18, well above the consensus estimate of ...
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Media Digest (4/26/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 26, 2012 at 6:41 am

Markets are lifted by Fed comments that the economy is recovering and that it will keep rates low. (Reuters) Chrysler posts its best earnings since being partially taken over by ...
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