[podcast] Lots of finance people lost their jobs in the economic crisis. Now companies want them back, but the future might be more based on contract roles than supposedly permanent positions. by Phil Dobbie
Rarely, if ever, does a financial author look back at what he said a decade earlier to see how accurate his statements actually were. John C. Bogle does just that in his 10th anniversary edition of "Common Sense on Mutual Funds." He gives himself a 500 batting...
Diffusion lines have popped up all over, bringing coveted collections at lower prices to shoppers at H&M, Topshop, Kohl's and the like. The unexpected phenomenon that has driven an entire side business though, that of re-selling pieces to hungry fashionistas all over the world via eBay. by Lydia Dishman
US GDP grew at a 5.7% annual rate in the 4th quarter of 2009: US GDP growth fastest in six years, by Alan Rappeport, FT: The US economy grew at the fastest rate in six years during the fourth quarter, offering hope that the recovery is...
A recent post on the ongoing troubles at Sequenom SQNM -- in which I noted that the company has been sued by one of its partners, claiming it "has no real non-invasive testing for Down Syndrome" -- really stirred the hornets' nest. by Jim Edwards
eBay said today it is launching a new offering called "Garden by eBay," an area on the site that will allow members to test new features and provide feedback for improvements and changes. Garden by eBay is an opt-in initiative with a concept that is similar to Google Labs where...
eBay said today it is launching a new offering called "Garden by eBay," an area on the site that will allow members to test new features and provide feedback for improvements and changes. Garden by eBay is an opt-in initiative with a concept that is similar to Google Labs where...
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eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) closed yesterday at $22.49. So far the stock has hit a 52-week low of $9.91 and 52-week high of $25.80. eBay stock has been showing support around 22.13 and resistance in the 23.13 range. Technical indicators for the stock are Bearish and S&P gives EBAY a positive 4 STAR (o...(Click the story link or go to http://www.marketintelligencecenter.com for the full story)
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Last year, Yahoo still dominated display advertising on the Web in terms of sheer number of ad impressions on its properties, but social networking sites MySpace and Facebook came on strong. Some new data from comScore in its just-released 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review ranks the top Web properties by the number of display ad impressions.
Yahoo served up an estimated 521 billion impressions last year, according to the report, followed by Fox Interactive Media (i.e. MySpace) with 368 billion, and Facebook with 330 billion. Microsoft sites (No.4) only served up 218 billion display ads, whereas Google (No. 6) served up only 70 billion. (These numbers do not include paid search text ads)
Here's the full ranking:
eBay's (EBAY) Paypal subsidiary has stopped numerous payments in parts of India for over a week, since January 28. Paypal declined to comment, other than saying questions have arisen.
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The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio has been off to a strong start in 2010. As of the market close on January 29, 2010, the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio was up 1.38% for the month versus a negative 4.57% return for the S&P 500 over the same period of time. As you might recall, the Fat [...]
PayPal isn't working properly in India. eBay's electronic payment juggernaut appears to be blocking personal transactions to or from accounts of India-based users. It is reversing personal transaction. Transactions involving businesses are still allowed.
A reader checked in with us yesterday to let us know PayPal notified him that the company had stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India (full e-mail can be found below).
This does not appear to be an isolated incident: see here, here and here for more reports, although we gather commercial payment transactions are unaffected at this point.
What do the companies in these three groups have in common?
Group A. American Motors, Studebaker, Eastman Kodak, Maytag and National Sugar Refining.
Group B. Boeing (BA), Campbell Soup (CPB), Deere (DE), IBM (IBM) and Whirlpool (WHR).
Group C. Cisco (CSCO), eBAy (EBAY), McDonald’s (MCD), Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO).
All the companies in ...
Existing home sales are moving higher as many buyers are racing to get what they thought was the end of the tax break. Mortgage rates are expected to go higher and prices may never be cheaper… at least that is what is going through the minds of many people who do not want to miss [...]
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Here is one more piece of evidence that we are seeing countries break from their promise as they pursue domestic economic agendas. Of course it is okay for a country to help out their own, but this is a blatant foul. Someone should call a penalty on Japan for this move.
There is no doubt, this [...]
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Discovery Networks has been on our radar screen for some time. We have missed several opportunities to grab the stock and it kept on moving higher. This time we are looking at the news of Oprah’s move as providing significant upside for the network. It is really a big confirmation for the cable operators (We [...]
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Wal-Mart (WMT) has become more aggressive than ever, looking to take market share (assuming there is viable competition after this move) during this holiday shopping season. Dropping prices on key goods and expanding their product offerings were just the start. Now they have started to slash prices on selected items in an effort to lure [...]
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Last week we had a look at the Johnson Redbook numbers that showed a slowdown in sales. This week we are seeing another rise in the comparative numbers, but strip out autos that could be leftover from the cash-for-clunkers. Of course some is the demand from Asia.
The first chart shows just how much the inclusion [...]
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