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  • Telefónica seeks O2 engagement

    Telefónica seeks O2 engagement

    January 21, 2015 Harry Joiner
    Concerns rise about owning a shrinking mobile-only business as rivals bolster broadband and TV Source: Companies
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    January 21, 2015Telefónica seeks O2 engagement
    Obama Seeks to Burnish His Climate Legacy, But Will His Oil and Gas Policies Haunt Him?

    Obama Seeks to Burnish His Climate Legacy, But Will His Oil and Gas Policies Haunt Him?

    January 21, 2015 Harry Joiner
    In at least three previous State of the Union speeches, President Barack Obama placed great emphasis on his "all of the above" energy strategy — one that includes both aggressive pursuit of…
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    January 21, 2015Obama Seeks to Burnish His Climate Legacy, But Will His Oil and Gas Policies Haunt Him?
    Windows 10's Cortana: A Solution Without A Problem?

    Windows 10's Cortana: A Solution Without A Problem?

    January 21, 2015 Harry Joiner
    A large focus of Microsoft's press event today other than high-concept holograms and Windows 10 itself was the personification of the OS, Cortana. We've seen the Halo-themed AI (complete with original…
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    January 21, 2015Windows 10's Cortana: A Solution Without A Problem?
    Microsoft Augments Reality With Windows Holographic

    Microsoft Augments Reality With Windows Holographic

    January 21, 2015 Harry Joiner
    Microsoft debuted its new augmented reality tech at the Windows 10 live event today. Source: Technology
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    January 21, 2015Microsoft Augments Reality With Windows Holographic
    With Windows 10 You Can Stream Any Xbox One Game To Your PC Or Tablet

    With Windows 10 You Can Stream Any Xbox One Game To Your PC Or Tablet

    January 21, 2015 Harry Joiner
    Xbox One users are gaining the ability to stream any Xbox One game to an in-network tablet or PC running Windows 10. Source: Technology
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    January 21, 2015With Windows 10 You Can Stream Any Xbox One Game To Your PC Or Tablet

U.S. SEC to take deeper look at Wall St arbitration reform plan

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Oct 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is taking the unusual step of extending its review of a plan to restrict industry veterans from serving as arbitrators in many legal disputes between investors and brokerages, citing questions about whether the proposal complies with securities laws. Source: Financials
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Online Growth And Store Consolidation Will Help Guess's Store Productivity

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Going forward, we expect the retailer?s store productivity to improve, driven by incremental online sales, the development of an omni-channel platform and consolidation of an under-performing store network. Guess?s online sales have been growing at a robust pace, which has encouraged it to push aggressively towards omni-channel retailing to leverage customers’ online shopping interest to enhance store sales. Source: Markets
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Lear Corporation Priced Higher On Strong Growth Expectations

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
In addition to high vehicle demand in key markets, boosting volumes for Lear?s automaker clients and in turn for the company, interior content percentage in vehicles is also rising. Improving sales of premium vehicles and electrically-powered vehicles are fueling this rise in content per vehicle, and Lear has looked to take advantage of the high demand for these vehicles. Source: Markets
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Bristol Myers Squibb Getting Close To Lung Cancer Approval For Nivolumab

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
These developments are encouraging for Bristol-Myers Squibb, which earlier had fast tracked clinical trials of nivolumab due to successful results. Merck has already launched a similar drug this year and has first-mover advantage in the market. However, we believe that the market is big enough to accommodate more players, considering that the price for the drug is going to be high. Source: Markets
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Thursday 10/2 Insider Buying Report: BRC

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned dollars to make a purchase, is that they expect to make money.  Today we look at one noteworthy recent insider buy. Source: Markets
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UPDATE 2-Argentine stocks fall after interventionist named to head central bank

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Argentine stocks and bonds slid on Thursday as the government left markets guessing about policy direction after the appointment of a new central bank chief viewed as sympathetic to the government’s ramped-up interventions in the economy. Source: Financials
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JPMorgan denies NY Times report that its computer system was hacked

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Oct 2 (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co denied a report in the New York Times on Thursday that its computer system had been breached for the second time in about three months. Source: Financials
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RBS hires Goldman for Coutts unit sale

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Buyer of division unlikely to gain rights to brand name Source: Companies
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Wonga to write off £220m of loans

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
UK payday lender to consider changing name after second setback in three days Source: Companies
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I'm Buying Vectrus

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing I love spinoffs. They’re the place to find unwanted companies abandoned by the market. It’s one of the key places that I find value stocks for my Special Situations portfolio. So this week I’m buying stock in Vectrus , a recent spinoff of Exelis . This defense contractor has seen shrinking revenue as some government contracts wind down, but now trading at less than 8 times earnings, it should make a solid purchase longer term as the company stabilizes its business and pays [...]
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Why Boyd Gaming Is an Activist Investor Target

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing Boyd’s abandoned Las Vegas project. Source: Bobak Ha’Eri via Wikimedia Commons. In the casino gaming industry, there’s a huge divide between domestic-focused companies and those with a broader international scope. Boyd Gaming is a company that put all its chips on the health of the U.S. gaming market, and even as Las Vegas Sands and other better-diversified casino companies have recovered much of the ground they lost during the financial crisis, Boyd shares still languish well below where they traded in the mid-2000s. Yet [...]
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Gap's $1.5 Billion Share Buyback Success

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing If you had picked up Gap shares over the last year for around $30.35, you’d be sitting on a nice little 6% return. With enough initial investment, you could be looking at a car down payment or maybe a new TV. If you were Gap, and you ended up over 38 million shares at that price, you’d be looking at quite a bit more. Maybe you’d finally get that pony. Source: Gap  Gap has spent over $1.5 billion repurchasing shares over the last twelve months, and it still has $383 million [...]
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Will 4K TVs Be the Savior Best Buy Needs?

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy has been struggling to grow sales, with a combination of factors working against the company’s turnaround efforts. One unwelcome trend for Best Buy has been the contraction of the TV market, the result of consumers having little reason to upgrade their current LCD TVs. TV sales in the U.S. remained strong through 2011, but unit volume declined in each of the next two years, with the 34 million units sold during 2013 down from more than 38 million in 2011. Consumers will need a compelling reason [...]
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Autopilots needed for tweeting drivers

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Chief says autonomous driving is necessary because of distractions Source: Companies
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Here's the Latest Dirt on iRobot and Its Roomba

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Consumer Goods, Industrial, Home & Garden, Investing www.irobot.com Since hitting a recent high of $41.79 on July 1, shares of iRobot (IRBT) stock have lost more than one-quarter of their value, falling to around $30 in recent trading. But why are the wheels coming off the Roomba maker? You can sum up the answer in just one word: Dyson. IRobot makes machines for all sorts [...]
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Style to win over the urban cyclist

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
The Faraday Porteur electric bike has power and range and is aimed at the city commuter Source: Management
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A thirst for ancient wine and beer

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Patrick McGovern reconstructs what our ancestors drank – for sale as well as study Source: Management
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Male grooming: from macho to moisturiser

October 2, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Increasingly image-conscious Korean men spend the most per head in the world on skincare products Source: Management
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CitiMortgage, Wells lose bid to end lawsuit over credit reports

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
NEW YORK, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Wells Fargo Bank and Citigroup’s mortgage unit must face claims that they violated federal law by falsely notifying credit reporting agencies that thousands of homeowners went through bankruptcies or foreclosures, a federal judge has ruled. Source: Financials
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Coca-Cola yields to investor ire on pay

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Rewards plan described by Buffett as ‘excessive’ is watered down Source: Companies
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Billionaire Detroit business leader says "blight is like a cancer"

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
DETROIT, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Detroit needs to eradicate blighted properties and keep its art collection in order to thrive once it exits bankruptcy, a billionaire business leader told the city’s bankruptcy trial on Wednesday. Source: Financials
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TABLE- Top-20 selling vehicles in U.S. in September

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Oct 1 (Reuters) – The following are the 20 top-selling vehicles in the United States in September as reported by the automakers and ranked by total units. Top 20 selling vehicles in U.S. in September RANK VEHICLE SEPTEMBER LAST YR PCT CHNG 1 Ford F-Series P/U 59,863 60,456 -1.0 2 Chevy Silverado-C/K P/U 50,176 32,506 +54.4 3 Ram P/U 36,612 28 Source: Financials
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FCA probes Tesco’s accounting woes

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Probe comes as analysts consider possible need for rights issue to shore up balance sheet Source: Companies
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UPDATE 3-Britain's Hill charms EU parliament despite doubts

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
* UK nominee uses humour, grasp of issues to disarm critics Source: Financials
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UPDATE 2-Panel installer Vivint Solar shares light up in debut

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Oct 1 (Reuters) – Shares of Vivint Solar Inc rose as much as 9 percent in their market debut, as investors bet on growing demand for residential solar panel installations in the United States. Source: Financials
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Fannie and Freddie sold off as suit fails

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Fairholme, Perry and Pershing Square hit by ruling to dismiss shareholder grievance case Source: Companies
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SaskPower to launch carbon capture plant

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Canadian utility aims to trap 90% of emissions from coal plant, or 1m tonnes of CO2, each year Source: Companies
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RBC pushes aggressively into US dealmaking market

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
RBC now earns more than half its investment banking revenue in US Source: Companies
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2 Solar Industry Winners and 4 Losers

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing SunPower watched its bottom line fall deep into the red in 2011 and 2012. Last year, however, it managed to get itself back into the black, earning $0.70 a share as it continues to take a leading roll on the technology front. China’s Suntech Power Holdings , on the other hand, is still winding its way through bankruptcy, after its debt burden proved too onerous as solar panel prices fell. There’s a huge solar opportunity, but not every company can be an industry leader. Too much debtSuntech’s big problem was a [...]
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Why GT Advanced Technologies Stock Has Lost Half Its Value in 3 Months

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing Source: GT Advanced. Investors always look for stocks that can ride on the coattails of large, successful companies, and no company has longer coattails than Apple . During the first half of 2014, shares of component-maker GT Advanced Technologies more than doubled as investors hoped that the company’s sapphire crystal would play a much more important role in the imminent release of the iPhone 6. Yet, as details came out about the actual phone, investors suffered a crisis of confidence that quickly caused much of those gains to disappear. GT Advanced [...]
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3 Reasons Altria Group Inc. Stock Could Fall

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing Altria headquarters. Source: Altria. Tobacco giant Altria Group has consistently defied its naysayers, staving off threats ranging from litigation to regulation and anti-smoking advocacy. Yet despite its success in battling its foes, Altria nevertheless has to deal with the fundamental weaknesses of the tobacco industry, clamoring to maintain and grow market share even as more people join the ranks for former smokers. Let’s look at three of the biggest threats to Altria that could send its stock downward in the future. 1. Poor third-quarter earnings could make investors skeptical about Altria’s [...]
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Google's Nexus 9 Could Be the First Tablet to Truly Challenge Apple's iPad Air

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing Google is widely expected to unveil its next tablet, the Nexus 9, at some point in the next few weeks. Like the Nexus devices that have preceded it, the Nexus 9’s release should coincide with the debut of the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android L. Although Google has released a larger Nexus tablet in the past, it wasn’t particularly successful — 2012’s Nexus 10 didn’t seem to garner as much positive attention as its smaller, less-expensive Nexus 7 counterpart — and unlike the Nexus 7, it did not receive an annual [...]
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Did General Mills Waste $3 Billion of Your Money?

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing A selection of General Mills’ global brands. Source: General Mills. “Charlie and I favor repurchases when two conditions are met: first, a company has ample funds to take care of the operational and liquidity needs of its business; second, its stock is selling at a material discount to the company’s intrinsic business value, conservatively calculated. We have witnessed many bouts of repurchasing that failed our second test.”— Warren Buffett, 2011 If you own shares of packaged-foods giant General Mills  or are considering buying shares, it’s probably a good time to evaluate whether management and [...]
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‘Mummies’ nurture Nestlé in DR Congo

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
The global consumer group adapts to local tastes and targets micro-entrepreneurs Source: Management
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Back away from the marshmallow

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Intriguing psychological insights on self-control but little in the way of practical tips Source: Management
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Conference management is a top choice

October 1, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
The job can be rewarding but makes exacting demands and requires significant skills Source: Management
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Groceries watchdog quizzes Tesco on code

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Groceries Code Adjudicator asks Tesco to say if overstatement probe reveals breach of code Source: Companies
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Swiss bank Julius Baer says cooperating in EU carbon market tax fraud probe

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
ZURICH/PARIS, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Swiss private bank Julius Baer is cooperating in a French investigation into suspected money laundering and tax fraud by a former client involved in the European carbon allowances market, a spokeswoman said, following French media reports. Source: Financials
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UPDATE 4-EBay follows Icahn's advice, plans PayPal spinoff in 2015

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
(Adds comments from investors, analysts, interview with Donahoe, updates stock price) Source: Financials
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Ebay free to focus on its core

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Ebay will be able to reinvest its own cash flow and margins but the split could also have downside Source: Companies
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SEC charges two with insider trading ahead of Pershing-Herbalife battle

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) – A former Deloitte analyst and a consultant who roomed with a Pershing Square Management research analyst were charged Tuesday with insider trading, after they learned that Pershing’s manager Bill Ackman was taking a short position in Herbalife, U.S. regulators said. Source: Financials
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UPDATE 2-Hedge fund Third Point joined Icahn in pressuring eBay-source

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
(Adds background and updates share price movement, details in Third Point assets) Source: Financials
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BRIEF-Lufthansa Pension Trust's Amadeus IT share sale to be priced at 28.80-29.62 euros each-source

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
* Lufthansa Pension Trust to offer 13.5 million shares of Amadeus IT Holding at 28.80 euros to 29.62 euros a share -source Further company coverage: Source: Financials
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Tuesday 9/30 Insider Buying Report: PZZI, STRM

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned cash to make a purchase, is that they expect to make money.  Today we look at two noteworthy recent insider buys. Source: Markets
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An AOL-Yahoo Deal Made Little Sense Before: Does It Now?

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Why is Starboard pressing the matter now when this possibility has been always been on the table and dismissed like leftover spinach? Source: Markets
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Q3 Results At RBS To Benefit From $1.3 Billion Provision Release

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
With impairments being under $500 million for the first half of the year, and with the bank expected to release $1.3 billion in provisions in Q3, RBS will actually report a net recovery in loans for full year 2014. Besides the Ulster Bank operations, RBS will also release a sizable chunk of provisions related to the legacy businesses it is looking to dispose of. Source: Markets
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Global Shale Exploration Needs Pragmatism Not Bravado

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Of late, there has been a change in the mood of global shale oil and gas enthusiasts. While the enthusiasm has not dimmed, exaggerated claims about potential reserves are fading and there is a new found sense of pragmatism from Poland to China. Source: Markets
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Multibillion cross-border deals return

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
At $2.66tn, M&A activity is at a level that frustrated dealmakers have not seen since 2008 Source: Companies
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New Coverage Launch By Trefis: $107 Price Estimate For Honeywell International Inc. — Part 2

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Honeywell’s market share had declined in the past two years primarily due to slower growth in revenue from Europe and U.S. than the industry. However, going forward, we believe that Honeywell’s market share could increase due to its focus on expansion in developing countries such as China and India. Additionally, a multi-brand strategy could also bolster its market share. Source: Markets
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Google faces German order over profiling

September 30, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Source: Companies
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