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Douglas A. McIntyre

Media Digest (5/11/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Facebook’s initial public offering is already oversubscribed. (Reuters) JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) books a $2 billion trading loss, and the figure could rise by another $1 billion. (Reuters) China’s industrial production and retail activity…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Facebook IPO Demand Above Expectations

courtesy Facebook Inc.Reuters reports that the Facebook IPO is already oversubscribed. That means the upper end of the projected price range of $28 to $35 may be raised soon. In turn, Facebook could then…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Microsoft Bing Joins Forces With Facebook

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Bing have created an odd joint venture to help get the Bing search engine more use–at Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) expense. Bing results will be married with related posts from user…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Mother’s Day Spending Rises

Spending for Mother’s Day is expected to rise 8% from last year, according to the National Retail Federation. Either people love their mothers more than last year, of the forecast is the sign that…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

India Recession

There are signs of economic trouble in two pillars of the developing world as a there are signal that the global slowdown has caught up to what were among the most robust countries. Industrial…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

JP Morgan $2 Billion Loss — Stock Down 6%

In a hastily called conference call, JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon explained that one of the bank’s divisions would have an $800 million trading loss based on a bad investments in synthetic securities. Neither…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Luxury Cars On A Rise

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 its goal to sell 1.5…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Merkel Turns Against Greece, Again

Angela Merkel continues to dig in her heels as Greece insist it may reject the austerity measure which have allowed it to get loan support from its eurozone neighbors and the IMF. A portion…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Sony’s Turnaround Dreams

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. It is still in…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

What’s Important In The Financial World

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. It is still in the…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Sears, Overstock, And Gilt Hammered In New E-Commerce Study

Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD), Overstock (NASDAQ: OSTK), and  Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) are not particularly well-regarded as brands or particularly well-liked by Wall St. Perhaps coincidentally, each shows up near the bottom of the…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

A Third Of Young Americans Without Work

Depending on the age group bracket, the federal government puts youth unemployment at about 20%. It is higher among the poorly educated, blacks, and Hispanics. College educated white young people tend to do better.…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Cities Where Home Prices Are Collapsing

Nationally, home prices are projected to decline 4% by the end of this year, according to Fiserv Case-Shiller’s latest report. Most of the country’s largest metropolitan areas will not escape this fate. In fact,…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Greece Says Goodbye to the Euro

Greece already has left the eurozone. The formality of the paperwork is only a few months away, at most. The notion it can remain in the alliance is based on the fantasies that either the political parties that…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Toyota’s Earnings Surge and Brand Power

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 Thailand that badly damaged…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Walt Disney Earnings: A Return of the Consumer

A great deal of the discussion about Walt Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) unexpectedly strong earnings revolved around the fact that movie bomb “John Carter” had not crippled overall earnings per share. And the markets looked toward the…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Media Digest (5/9/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Coalition talks in Greece are unlikely to create a new government, raising the chance Greece could leave the eurozone. (Reuters) GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) will launch a takeover of Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ: HGSI). (Reuters)…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Oil Drops To $97

Oil has passed $97 on its way down to what some analysts believe will be $90 or less. That would be a reset of more than 15% down over two months. The worry about…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago