Wal_Mart (WMT): Mr. Coffee
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) will start to sell its own "green" brands of coffee. They will be come from beans planted at carbon-neutral facilities. The brands, will, of course compete with the Maxwell House and…
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Month: April 2008
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Newest first · Page 41The Hedge Fund Industry Begins To Crack
Hedge funds had their worst first quarter on record. Some have already started to fail, and others are likely to . According to the FT "This year has seen a series of hedge fund…
Microsoft (MSFT): Why Bother To Raise Yahoo! (YHOO) Bid
The news that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) would not raise its bid for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) came as enough of a surprise that it made the front page of some papers. Microsoft managers "argue that…
Wall St. Begins To Buy-In To $120 Oil
The idea that oil might hit $120 was the stuff of fairy tale and lying around the poker table. At least up until now. A new Reuters poll of analysts shows that many of…
Techs Fared Worse Than Financials In Q1: The Plague Of The High PE
With all of the carnage in the financial sector it would be hard to believe that any other group of stocks could have done worse. The technology sector claims that, for the most part,…
UBS (UBS) Presages US Bank Earnings (C)(MER)(MS)
At UBS (NYSE: UBS) it all hit the fan today. Marcel Ospel, the bank’s chairman, is on the way out. The financial firm wrote-off another $19 billion. The company plans to raise $15 billion…
Media Digest 4/1/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, US car sales for March are likely to be off sharply. Reuters writes that Microsoft (MSFT) will not raise its bid for Yahoo! (YHOO) Reuters reports that UBS (UBS) will take…
Asia Markets 4/1/2008 (SNE)(CN)(SNP)
Markets in Asia were mixed The Nikkei rose 1% to 12,656. Sony (SNE) roe 2.3% to 4060. Toshiba rose 3.2% to687. The Hang Seng was up .1% to 22,878. China Netcom (CN) rose 1.1%…