Archive for January, 2009:

Is Steve Jobs’ right to privacy more important than shareholders?

{ Posted on Jan 30 2009 by Zac Bissonnette }
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Filed under: Management, Apple Inc (AAPL)With the SEC reportedly looking into Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s disclosures about Steve Jobs' health, an interesting philosophical question is raised: Do the rights of Apple shareholders to timely disclosures about material risk factors trump ...Read More »

Closing Bell: DJIA challenges 8,000, again …

{ Posted on Jan 30 2009 by Jon Ogg }
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Filed under: Amazon.com (AMZN), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Boston Scientific (BSX), Procter and Gamble (PG), Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM), Juniper Networks (JNPR)Today was just another negative day at the office after yesterday. It felt as though we were trying to hold on ...Read More »

Best Buy looking at buying some empty Circuit City locations soon?

{ Posted on Jan 30 2009 by Brian White }
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Filed under: Competitive strategy, Best Buy (BBY)Best Buy, Inc. (NYSE: BBY) CEO Brad Anderson indicated this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that the largest consumer electronics retailer in the U.S. would be looking at about-to-be-vacated retail ...Read More »

Amazon had a great Q4, but don’t buy just yet

{ Posted on Jan 30 2009 by Steven Mallas }
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Filed under: Earnings reports, eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN) Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), whose competitors include eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), is up today after the online retailer released its Q4 numbers yesterday after the bell. And when ...Read More »

Wall Street has been strip mining America

{ Posted on Jan 30 2009 by Sheldon Liber }
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Filed under: Rants and raves, Scandals, Economic data, Politics, Headline news, RecessionJust like the government's tardy recognition of the recession, nine months after the fact, Washington has become embarrassed over and over again by the scandalous behavior of Wall Street ...Read More »

Is Iran’s economy turning downward?

{ Posted on Jan 30 2009 by Connie Madon }
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Filed under: Middle East, Oil, DJIA, Financial CrisisThe global economic slowdown is now reaching countries that once were immune from trouble. Let's take Iran, for example. Conventional thinking would be that Iran has so much oil money that their economy ...Read More »

Seattle Post-Intelligencer close to closing: But not THAT close

{ Posted on Jan 30 2009 by Sarah Gilbert }
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Filed under: Bad news, Rumors, NewspapersAbout a half of an hour ago, a rumor came from Twitter news source on all-things media, @themediaisdying: a rumor that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, one of two daily newspapers in Seattle, Wash., was officially closing. ...Read More »

Starbucks is a real dog

{ Posted on Jan 30 2009 by Jamie Dlugosch }
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Filed under: Earnings reports, Bad news, Starbucks (SBUX), Stocks to Sell, RecessionFormer high-flyer Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) put a coffee shop on every street corner during the time of easy credit. The pure saturation strategy had no basis in demand. Instead, ...Read More »

Rich got richer under Bush, but they paid more taxes

{ Posted on Jan 30 2009 by Zac Bissonnette }
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Filed under: Good newsNew data from the IRS shows that the average tax rate paid by the richest 400 Americans fell by a third from 22.9% to 17.2% in the first six years of the Bush presidency, even as their ...Read More »

GDP Better than Expected, Market Tanks

{ Posted on Jan 30 2009 by Ockham Research Staff }
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the most widely-used indicator for the health of an economy.  So, when the fourth quarter GDP number was released prior to the market open and was almost two percent better than expected, you would think ...Read More »
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