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The pace of stock buyback announcements in the month of August was almost unbelievable. The pace was stronger at the start of the month when earnings were still coming in droves, but the number of...
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Time Warner (NYSE: TWC) to buy Insight Communications from Carlyle for $3 billion. (Reuters) Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) expects holiday sales to be strong. (Reuters) Security experts say hackers...
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It is no secret that the market volatility has many investors rattled. What is very counter-intuitive is that many companies are continuing with most or all of their investor friendly plans...
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Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) says QE3 was likely after the Fed’s recent comments. (Reuters) HSBC (NYSE: HBC) sells its U.S. credit card business to Capitol One. (Reuters) China not likely to raise...
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Most investors love when the market bounces big after a huge sell-off. The 600+ point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday actually came to almost 2,000 lost DJIA points just since...
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Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) said its revenue fell last quarter to a large extent because of a drop in its display advertising. The trend will spread to other websites with smaller audience size than those...
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The press has given the joint venture between Facebook and Skype to deliver video chat a large amount of coverage. Facebook Video Calling does not offer anything new. Skype has had video links...
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BP plc’s (NYSE: BP) deal to drill in the Arctic dissolved as its venture with Rosneft faltered (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) will release results early after a note from its CEO was leaked...
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IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged with sexual assault in NYC (Reuters) Glencore raised the mid-point of the price range of its IPO (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) recalled 1,000...
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Glencore’s IPO will be for about $11 billion. (Reuters) The slide of the dollar has caused concerns about how it may hurt the stability of the credit markets. (Reuters) Portugal set a bailout with...
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This week marks the beginning of the end of corporate earnings season for the first quarter of 2011. Many off-calendar quarters will be seen starting next week or the week after. Wednesday is a...
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Glam Media is the latest media company to claim that it will soon become the largest employer of journalists. At a dinner in San Francisco earlier this month, CEO Samir Arora said Glam will probably...
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Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs fell 6% in the first quarter to $1.13 billion. Net earnings dropped 28% to $223 million. Both numbers cheered Wall St. because they...
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Japan’s markets fell on concerns about contaminated drinking water (Reuters) The US has stopped imports from the area around Japan’s nuclear disaster (Reuters) The damage to Japan could cost $300...
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Japan was hit by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake. (Reuters) Chinese insurance regulators passed on details of the AIG (NYSE: AIG) disaster to local insurance companies, according to WikiLeaks. (Reuters)...
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