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Cars and Drivers
The Ten Cars Americans Love The Most
The recession and high gas prices have been major forces shaping Americans lives in the past several years. When it comes to the auto market they had a profound impact on our…
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Investing
Japanese Woes Killing Japan’s Blue Chips (OCPNY, TM, HMC, CAJ, HIT, SNE, PC, NMR)
The realm of global geopolitics is going beyond nerve-racking in many instances. It is not just the U.S. that is being held hostage by Europe as Japan has a pricey Yen against…
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Investing
What’s Important in the Financial World (11/8/2011) Oil Price Surges, NOOK Dead
Sovereign debt crisis update. Some analysts claim the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone has worsened in the past day. Others say it has gotten better. Each group is only guessing. Greece received the…
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Media
Media Digest (11/8/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Olympus says it concealed losses for decades. (Reuters) Italy’s sovereign debt interest rates rise sharply. (Reuters) Toyota’s (NYSE: TM) profits fall and it withdraws its full-year forecast. (Reuters) Greece cannot decide on…
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Cars and Drivers
GM and the Folly of Long-Term Plans in China
General Motors (NYSE: GM) management says it will double sales in China by 2015, according to several media reports. GM executives should know better. It would be better to underpromise and overdeliver,…
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Investing
Top Earnings & Economic Events In The Week Ahead (PCLN, AONE, ATVI, PAAS, TM, CSCO, CSC, GM, GMCR, M, SLW, MCP, JWN, NVDA, DIS)
Earnings season has peaked, but we still have many key earnings reports and economic events coming in the week ahead. 24/7 Wall St. has featured a calendar with events scheduled all-week on…
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Investing
Media Digest (11/1/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, Bloomberg
Greeks will vote on planned austerity, which could wreck the chances of a conclusion to the bailout. (Reuters) China’s PMI falls to the lowest level since early 2009. (Reuters) Chemical and defense…
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Investing
The Most Important Financial News (10/27/2011)
European Financial Stability Facility $1 trillion saves greece. The eurozone has set a larger European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which may have a balance as high as $1.4 trillion. This amount will…
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Consumer Electronics
Nintendo Wii Failure: Echoes of Consumer Electronic Disasters Past
The failure of the new Nintendo 3DS and upgraded Wii have caused the Japanese company troubles similar to those faced by Motorola, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in…
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Investing
What’s Important Today (10/26/2011) Nokia’s New Phone, Berlusconi’s Trouble, Luxury Cars
Nokia’s new Microsoft smartphone: Today will be remembered as the day that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) began an historic turnaround, or when it lost its bet on new smartphones that run the Microsoft…
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Investing
R&D Spenders Get No Respect
A company can spend billions of dollars on R&D and get little respect as an innovator. Even though that is the conclusion of a new study by Booz & Co., the conclusion…
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Cars and Drivers
China’s Car Market Slows to a Halt
China was supposed to be the salvation of the global auto manufacturing business as sales in the U.S. and Europe have slowed in the past half decade. Now, the China Association of…
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Energy
As Volt Sales Disappoint, GE Drives Further into the Electric Car Market
ChartIt is hard to understand why General Motors (NYSE: GM) would continue to punish itself by moving further into the electric car market. Sales of its Chevy Volt have been a few…
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Media
Media Digest (10/10/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Dexia rescued, part nationalized and part receives guarantees from Belgium. (Reuters) Germany and France agree to crisis plans for the region’s banks. (Reuters) A huge growth of debt in China could cause…
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Apps & Software
Steve Jobs and the Freedom of the American Business System
Steve Jobs was the greatest genius of the American technical age, which started with the launch of the PC and the operating systems that ran it. He was uniquely American, because his…