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Posts related to ‘MNI’

What’s Important in the Financial World (6/26/2012)

Posted: June 26, 2012 at 6:29 am

Spain’s borrowing costs continued to be unsustainable a day after Moody’s downgraded 28 banks based there. The yield on three-month paper was 2.362%. It was 3.23% for six-month bonds. The ...
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Buffett Takes Stake in Lee for Newspapers, More to Come? (LEE, BRK-A, BRK-B, MEG, GCI, MNI, DJCO, BLC)

Posted: June 5, 2012 at 4:16 pm

Lee Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: LEE) is a tiny media company with news and advertising.  It serves midsize and small markets in the United States with 52 daily and 39 Sunday ...
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Newspaper Industry Gets Torn Up Again

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:18 am

Warren Buffett may be the only newspaper owner in American who wants to support the business. In addition to his ownership of daily newspapers in Omaha and Buffalo, he recently ...
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Warren Buffett Tries To Save The Newspaper Business

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 9:26 am

It is no secret that the newspaper business has not been a good sector over the last decade.  Subscriptions declined about as fast as the number of smokers did in ...
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AP Hires Worst CEO in Newspaper Industry

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 6:40 am

The Associated Press hired the worst CEO in the newspaper industry as its 13th chief executive. Its board of directors should be ashamed, as should anyone who works at the news ...
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Media Digest (3/22/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 6:37 am

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) tries to end a legal case concerning fraud in its CDO sales. (Reuters) China’s factory activity slows, as evidenced by the HSBC flash PMI of 48.1, a low reading. ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (SIRI, IBM, AZN, URBN, ZOLT, YUM, MT, BP, KO, EMR, LPX, MNI, CSTR, SPF, NSU, BPAX)

Posted: February 7, 2012 at 4:06 pm

US equity markets opened lower this morning, but after the first hour or so of trading, the three major indexes moved to positive territory where they remained for the rest ...
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Mid-day Movers (MNI, CSTR, CYBI, NGSX, SPF)

Posted: February 7, 2012 at 12:02 pm

At about noon, the DJIA is still up about 35 points at about 12,880, the Nasdaq is up some about 8 points at around 2,910, and the S&P 500 is ...
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Wall St. Fooled by Newspaper Industry

Posted: December 26, 2011 at 6:02 am

Traders rarely make mistakes as bad as the one they made when they pushed newspaper stocks higher early in the year. Shares in companies such as the New York Times (NYSE: ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (GOOG, JDSU, DRI, CB, LNKD, SAI, VRA, MTN, VLGEA, MW, TLB, MNI, MSO, FSLR, JAG, GBG)

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Equities fell sharply after this morning’s opening. Futures were soft prior to the opening bell due largely to continue to worry about Europe and a forecast cut to the European ...
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Short Seller Swarm: Highest Days To Cover (CADX, DMND, TSLA, OMEX, PACR, MNKD, WAVX, ENER, NTRI, ZIXI, MR, ZZ, RCI, MNI, HGG, AM, BPI, LTM)

Posted: September 27, 2011 at 11:13 am

Many investors track the largest increase in short selling, but there is another crucial way to look at short interest: the days to cover often tells just how actively shorted ...
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9 CEOs Who Need to Be Fired

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 4:09 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre It's the middle of the year, and by now, most large public companies have reported financial results for the second quarter of 2011. Some of the ...
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The Month’s Biggest Index Gainers : Broadcast TV, Newspapers and Magazines, and Real Estate Development

Posted: April 20, 2010 at 5:24 pm

There were strong gains in three Tickerspy indexes over the most recent 30-day period. This month's biggest gainers are in broadcast TV, newspaper and magazines, and in real estate development. Broadcast TV stocks are ...
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Media Digest (10/16/2009) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 16, 2009 at 4:04 am

Reuters:   Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) posted strong results. Reuters:   Bank of America's (NYSE:BAC) Lewis will skip 2009 pay. Reuters:   Japan Airlines says bankruptcy is an option to solving its ...
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Reader’s Digest Goes Into Hospice

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 4:53 am

The US business of Readers Digest is going into Chapter 11. The immediate cause is the company’s need to restructure $1.6 billion in debt and to move ownership of the ...
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