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- Potential candidates for Fed Board vacancies should be known to have anticipated the financial crisis in advance, have a pro-consumer stance and be willing to release AIG-related emails, Yves Smith...
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- Retail stocks have been some big beneficiaries of this yearlong bull market. Bespoke Investment Group finds more than half of the 31 S&P 500 retail stocks trade within 2.5% of their 52-week...
View ArticleLinks 3/25/2010
- Google (GOOG) dumped from China Unicom’s (CHU) Android devices. “An obvious and, I suppose, inevitable response to Google’s recent defiance of the Chinese government,” John Paczkowski says. “I...
View ArticleLinks 4/26/2010
- It’s debatable whether technicals or valuation are driving stocks higher, but “excessively bullish sentiment is the biggest risk right now,” Barry Ritholtz writes at The Big Picture. - The ratings...
View ArticleLinks 5/28/2010
- Several big name hedge-fund managers are placing bullish bets on Citi (C) and Bank of America (BAC). “Paulson, Soros, Falcone, Tepper, Ackman, Ainslie, Loeb — you name it, they own one or the...
View ArticleCSX Offers Pulse Check
CSX’s 2Q earnings were solid, helped by strong volume growth in hauls of metals and automotive-related freight. Automotive volume up 63%, while metals up 44%. That’s the good news. In all other...
View ArticleLinks 7/21/2010
- If Google (GOOG) can grow revenue, why can’t Yahoo (YHOO)? That’s the question Eric Savitz poses at Barron’s Tech Trader Daily blog. “[Yahoo CEO Carol] Bartz inspires confidence, she’s big on taking...
View ArticleLinks 9/7/2010
- Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) suit against former CEO Mark Hurd looks “very much like it was filed in a fit of passion after hearing that Hurd had signed on with Oracle,” Reuters blogger Felix Salmon says....
View Article‘I Want to Do Important Journalism’
My first journalism job came at the Verona-Cedar Grove (N.J.) Times, a small, very small, weekly back in 1991. I was hired as an assistant editor with pay somewhere in the general vicinity of the...
View ArticleSirius Gets Infusion Of ‘Tiger Blood’
Newswires Max Murphy writes: Sirius XM (SIRI), hoping it has Adonis DNA of its own, launches “Tiger Blood Radio” to tackle all things Charlie Sheen starting at 6:00 am EST Saturday. Channel will...
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