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Reuters: The head of GM says taxpayers may get their entire investment back. Reuters: Obama will urge tougher rules on Wall St. Reuters: The CEO of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) attacked...
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Reuters: US Census hiring will life payrolls. Reuters: The US will impose new airport security measures. Reuters: The head of China will visit the US and the issue of the yuan may be...
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Research that tries to forecast consumers’ buying plans is notoriously inaccurate. It is hard to determine what someone will buy if they have not seen it. Purchase intent based on brand can be...
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The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s...
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Barnes & Noble (BKS) made an odd decision today. It named a new CEO who will probably have no power to run the company. William Lynch comes from HSN where he was head of HSN.com. He will almost...
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Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networds in the world. All major media companies have a presence on Twitter and some are followed...
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A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter 11. This is due to the...
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E-reader marketers like Amazon (AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (BKS) have caught a break just before Apple comes to market with its iPad table computer. The iPad, with its 10.1″ screen, touchpad...
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Reuters: US regulators are looking at steering problems on the Toyota (TM) Corolla. Reuters: Greece says it is not seeking EU taxpayers’ money. Reuters: Gold fell on an IMF sale....
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Burger King (NYSE:BKS) will begin to sell Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) Seattle’s Best Coffee at its US restaurants. That would seem to be an admission that the coffee that the fast food has served up...
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Large consumer companies spend a great deal of marketing money on creating, preserving, and increasing the image of their brands. If a product has problems, the process does not always work. Toyota...
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Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of the disease. The American Cancer Associate says that the five-year survival rate for the condition is only 5%. New research by the Singapore...
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Reuters: Volcker will testify that banks should curb risky trading. Reuters: The US sees “no reason” to challenge the Toyota (NYSE:TM) plan to fix cars it has recalled for pedal trouble....
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Ron Burkle, a financier who is fond of raiding retail companies, plans to take a 37% stake in the nation’s largest bricks-and-mortar book seller, Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS). Burkle’s Yucaipa...
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A war is beginning to take place over Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS). Ron Burkle, a well-known activist investor who heads various activist investor funds under the name Yucaipa, is trying to...
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