Archive for November, 2008:

The week in preview: Canadian banks, homebuilders, Sears and food producers

{ Posted on Nov 30 2008 by Trey Thoelcke }
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Filed under: Earnings reports, Forecasts, Sears Holdings (SHLD), Toll Brothers (TOL), Smithfield Foods (SFD)Last week, Bank of Montreal (NYSE: BMO), one of Canada's oldest and largest banks, reported growth in its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings. But it may be the only ...Read More »

CableOrganizer.com has some fun at the expese of GM

{ Posted on Nov 30 2008 by Zac Bissonnette }
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Filed under: General Motors (GM), Comic ReliefCableOrganizer.com recently announced that it had outperformed General Motors (NYSE: GM) by $21.2 in net income over the first nine months of 2008. In a hilarious press release, senior vice president Paul Holstein noted that ...Read More »

Big OPEC meeting goes nowhere

{ Posted on Nov 30 2008 by Douglas McIntyre }
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Filed under: Oil, RecessionWith oil moving toward $50 a barrel, it would be fair to assume the OPEC would push to tighten supplies as soon as possible. Some of its members, particularly Venezuela and Iran, say that their national economies ...Read More »

Did Microsoft (MSFT) just cut deal to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) search?

{ Posted on Nov 30 2008 by Douglas McIntyre }
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Filed under: Rumors, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO)The Times of London says Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is on the brink of taking control of Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) search business. AllThings Digital says the story is hogwash. According to the UK paper, "Microsoft is ...Read More »

Will stocks climb Monday on better than expected Black Friday results?

{ Posted on Nov 29 2008 by Peter Cohan }
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Filed under: Forecasts, Good news, Consumer experience, Economic dataIt looks like we may have talked ourselves into an overly gloomy outlook for this year's holiday sales. Maybe that was the plan all along -- to depress expectations so much that ...Read More »

Will Amazon win with its pricing strategy?

{ Posted on Nov 29 2008 by Steven Mallas }
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Filed under: Consumer experience, Internet, eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN), Marketing and advertising, Black FridayIf you thought Black Friday was just for brick-and-mortar retail, think again. The official start of the online shopping rush is the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday ...Read More »

Trump Entertainment Resorts misses interest payment

{ Posted on Nov 29 2008 by Zac Bissonnette }
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Filed under: Bad news, Trump Entertainment Resorts (TRMP)Trump Entertainment Resorts (NASDAQ: TRMP) disclosed on Friday that it would delay making a $53.1 million interest payment on its senior secured notes due 2015 as it looks to restructure. The company owns and ...Read More »

Investors kick in $14 million for KickApps

{ Posted on Nov 29 2008 by Tom Taulli }
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Filed under: Next big thing, Small businessEven though social networking and widgets are pervasive -- and useful -- the ultimate business model is a bit fuzzy. But, for some VCs, there is still hope. Look at KickApps, which has a full-platform ...Read More »

Citigroup bailout sheds light on just what the taxpayers are buying

{ Posted on Nov 29 2008 by Bruce Watson }
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Filed under: Citigroup Inc. (C), Bank of America (BAC), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Financial CrisisWe are unfortunately not privy to the backroom deals and promises that are passing between Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the honchos who are benefiting from ...Read More »

General Motors tries to make a deal with debt holders

{ Posted on Nov 29 2008 by Zac Bissonnette }
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Filed under: General Motors (GM)As General Motors (NYSE: GM) works overtime to create the illusion of progress that might lure in skeptical lawmakers, it's making its debt holders an offer that will probably be easy to refuse: Swap your debt ...Read More »
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