Reuters: The Senate is near its first vote on healthcare. Reuters: Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is betting on corporate spending for its recovery. Reuters: Time Warner’s (NYSE:TWX) AOL showed that the worst is not…
Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was down .5% to 9,498. Sony NYSE:SNE) fell after its investor meeting. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) gained back some losses. The Hang Seng fell .7% to 22,451.…
Reuters: Senate Democrats unveiled their healthcare plan. Reuters: Hedge fund manage Griffin has rebounded from losses. Reuters: GM must pay its debt and become profitable before an IPO. Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) is…
Markets in Asis were mixed. The Nikkei fell 1.3% to 9,549. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) fell. Honda (NYSE:HMC) and Toyota (NYSE:TM) fell. Sony (NYSE:SNE) was also off. The Hang Seng dropped 1% to…
The management at Sony (NYSE:SNE) looks more and more like “The Gang That Couldn’t Shot Straight.” Its TV screen business is losing money. Most months, sales of the PS3 fall behind those…
Reuters: Thain regrets nothing he did at Merrill Lynch and during its merger with Bank of America (NYSE:BAC). Reuters: Trump put his support to the bondholders of his casino business. FT: A…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .6% to 9,730. Sony (NYSE:SNE) dropped. The Hang Seng was down .1% to 22,914. The Shanghai Composite rose .2% to 3,283. At the open…
Douglas A. McIntyre Sony (NYSE:SNE) expects its holiday sales to be poor. That is terrible news for the consumer electronics and PC industries. Sony is a nearly perfect proxy for those sectors. It sells PCs, video games,…
September sales for video game consoles were relatively good given the economy. Price cuts on the Nintendo Wii, Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS3, and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox stimulated activity. It appears that the initial surge…
The Holy Grail of consumer electronics is still a smashing success in the video game industry. Tens and tens of millions of Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS2s and PS3s were sold over the last decade. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has…
Reuters: Markets hit their 2009 highs. Reuters: Dodd is set to unveil his financial reform bill which calls for merging many bank regulators. Reuters: Kraft’s (NYSE:KFT) bid for Cadbury turned hostile. Reuters: …
Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) is about to release its “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II: video game. Sales are expected to be half a billion dollars in the first week. That would make it the…
Markets in Asia rose. The Nikkei was up .7% to 9,790. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) was down. Honda (NYSE:HMC) and Sony (NYSE:SNE) both gained. The Hang Seng rose 1.6% to 21,830. The Shanghai…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 1.3% to 9,747. Sony (NYSE:SNE) fell. The Hang Seng was down .6% to 21,479. The Shanghai Composite rose .7% to 3,156. At the open…
Douglas A. McIntyre Markets in Asia rose modestly The Nikkei was up .4% to 9,844. Sony (NYSE:SNE) fell. The Hang Seng rose 1.8% to 21,815. The Shanghai Composite was up .4% to 3,127. At the…
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