Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .5% to 9,157. Sony (SNE) and Canon were both up over 4%. The Hang Seng rose 2% to 15,741. China Overseas Land Investment was…
Douglas A. McIntyre Updated: 31 October 2008 Not all companies and industries will be hit equally hard by the consumer credit crisis. Operations such as Procter & Gamble (PG), McDonald’s (MCD), and Wal-Mart (WMT) may…
Markets in Asia were mostly lower with Shanghai closed for the holiday. The Nikkei was down .8% to 11,273. Toyota (TM) fell on poor US sales. Honda (HMC) was down as much…
Markets in Asia were sharply lower. The Nikkei fell 2.2% to 11,489. Sony (SNE) hit a five year low. Honda (HMC) dropped sharply. The Hang Seng was off over 5% to 16,742.…
Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was off 2.8% to 12,212, Sony (SNE) hit a multi-year low as it recalled a number of PCs. The Hang Seng was down 3.2% to 19,747.…
Douglas A. McIntyre Microsoft (MSFT) has decided that it would rather be the video game market share leader than make a buck at the business. Redmond cut the price of its Xbox 360 to $199.…
Nintendo made money, really big money, in the last quarter. Then, it had the audacity to say that things would get even better. According to Reuters, "Nintendo said it now expects an…
According to Reuters, a new tally of votes for the Yahoo! (YHOO) board election shows a high percentage of protest votes. Reuters reports that the Fed held rates steady and indicated it…
Nintendo owns so much of the video game console market that it may be coming up against market share problems. But, the entire industry could be facing the issue of whether it…
The plague of falling US vehicle sales is reaching the earnings of big car companies abroad. BMW "reported second-quarter earnings that trailed analysts’ estimates and abandoned its profit forecast on falling U.S.…
It has to gall corporate leviathans Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE) that Nintendo trumps them in the video game console business. The modest Japanese company did it again in the last quarter.…
Today’s list of stocks is somewhat void of financial stocks, yet many of these you’ll recognize. Here are today’s 52-week lows: AU Optronics Corp. (NYSE: AUO) stock rose over prior lows but…
According to Reuters, Merrill Lynch (MER) said that it would sell $8.5 billion in stock and take large write-downs. Reuters report that KKR says the market slump is a good time to…
Markets in Asia were off sharply. The Nikkei fell 1.6% to 13,141. Ricoh was off 3.5% to 1697. Sony (SNE) was off 3.2% to 3210. Toyota (TM) was off 2.6% to 4750.…
Markets in Asia fell sharply. The Nikkei was down 2% to 13,335. Canon was down 4.9% to 5100. Mazda was down 5% to 527. Sony (SBE) was down 4.2% to 4360. The…
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