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• Sterling results from Tiffany and J. Crew could signal high-end holiday boom

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Company News , Earnings , Tiffany & Co. , J. Crew For the luxury retailers lucky enough to make it through the steep recession, business is looking good again. And investors should consider taking a look at their stocks ahead of what might turn out to be an unexpectedly strong holiday season for ...
  6 hours ago

• Can Washington break the deflationary spiral?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Columns , Economy A lot of economists and commentators are having trouble figuring out what to call our current economic situation. Should it be the Great Recession, the Financial Crisis, the Greatest Depression? I dont really think well know what to call it until we get some historical distance from ...
  13 hours ago

• House of cards: Home prices may be headed back down

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Economy , Wells Fargo & Co. , Real Estate Everyone heaved a sigh of relief as the latest S&P/Case Shiller U.S. National Home Price survey showed a price increase for the fifth straight month. Home prices may finally have hit bottom, but Dean Baker of the Center for Economic Policy is not so ...
  14 hours ago

• Chinese banking shares stabilize while car and mining stocks soar

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Economy , Investing Shares in Asia recouped some of yesterdays losses as benchmark indexes rose. In China the Shanghai Composite Index climbed 2.1% to end the day at 3,290, and Hong Kongs Hang Seng Index rose 0.8% to 22,612. In Japan the Nikkei Index closed at 9,442 -- up 0.4%. Chinese mining ...
  18 hours ago

• GPS makers cant seem to locate a price floor: Sub-$50 devices in sight

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Google , Wal-Mart Stores , Palm , Amazon.com Inc. First comes the nasty entry of Googles ( GOOG ) freebie turn-by-turn voice-activated navigation app . Then comes news that this holiday shopping season may be the first where we see GPS devices by popular makers TomTom and Garmin ( GRMN ) drop to ...
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• Prempro lawsuits: Pfizer hit with $103 million more in punitive damages

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Company News , Healthcare , Pfizer , Merck It seems that for Pfizer ( PFE ), the saga of Prempro is just beginning. Barely a month after the worlds largest pharmaceutical company lost a case related to Wyeths Prempro hormone replacement therapy drug and was ordered to pay punitive damages on top of ...
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• Playboy outsources magazines business operations

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Company News Things are so bad at Playboy ( PLA ), once one of the largest magazines in America by paid circulation, that the company is outsourcing a number of critical functions, including ad sales, to save money. Several media outlets have reported that Playboy will enter into a five-year ...
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• Asian markets: Warning by Chinese regulator sends banking, retail stocks plummeting

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Economy , Investing Shares in Asia headed south Tuesday. In China, the Shanghai Composite index plunged 3.5% to 3,224, its largest drop in nearly three months. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index fell 1.5% to end the day at 22,423 and in Japan, the Nikkei Index lost 1% to close at 9,402. Banking shares ...
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• Whats really in Glade, Windex and Pledge? SC Johnson will finally tell you

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Wal-Mart Stores , Procter & Gamble The dirty little secrets of Glade, Pledge and Windex are all coming clean courtesy of venerable consumer products company SC Johnson. The Racine, Wis. outfit said last week it had launched a new website that lists the ingredients of more than 200 of its ...
  2 days ago

• Facebook spying costs Canadian woman her health benefits

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Technology , Economy , People , Healthcare , Media , Facebook On the surface, the twisted tale of Nathalie Blanchard seems to be yet another cautionary tale about how Facebook isnt really private, how social media can get you fired, and how the internet is a cruel mistress. On a deeper level, ...
  2 days ago

• Even with Microsoft pact, Murdoch cant go it alone

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Google , Microsoft , News Corp. Give Rupert Murdoch this much: His plan to stick it to Google while simultaneously increasing his newspapers revenues is clever. Very clever, in fact. But that doesnt mean its good. Murdoch is reportedly in talks with Microsoft ( MSFT ) about a pact whereby News ...
  2 days ago

• Jamie Dimon for Treasury chief? Or will Geithner be Obamas Rumsfeld?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Economy , JP Morgan Chase , American International Group, INC. During the reign of Americas 43rd president, calls came in to replace Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who took the blame for the administrations failure to deliver a quick military victory in Iraq. But George W. Bush refused to give ...
  2 days ago

• Chinese consumer product stocks soar, Chinese carmakers celebrate new models

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Economy , Investing In Asia, stocks climbed higher Monday. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.9% and in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index added 1.4%. Japans Tokyo Stock Exchange was closed today for Labor Thanksgiving Day, a celebration of workers rights. In China, consumer product stocks rallied with ...
  2 days ago

• Galleons Raj Rajaratnam gears up for a legal showdown

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: People , Investing With a mountain of evidence ranging from a cooperating witness to wiretapped confessions by an accomplice all but admitting guilt, prosecutors in the Galleon Group insider trading case might think they have an airtight case. But billionaire Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam seems ...
  3 days ago

• Why is Oprah going to cable? A hint: Its nothing to get teary about

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: General Electric , Walt Disney Oprah Winfrey is a smart cookie. I am guessing she knows all too well that you can make more money in cable than you can on a TV network. If its like other cable networks, her new Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), which she co-owns with Discovery Communications ( DISCA ), ...
  4 days ago

• Kisses from Hershey: Candymaker may court Cadbury with $17 billion bid

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Company News , Kraft Foods , Hershey Hershey ( HSY ) is an odd sort of company. Its governance is not in the hands of its board of directors. A charity called the Hershey Trust, established in 1894, effectively decides how the confectionery company is run and who will run it. Hershey has its own ...
  4 days ago

• D-Day for Harry Reid: Can he wrangle 60 votes for Senate health bill?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Economy Perhaps Ringo Starr should attend Saturday nights start to the debate over the health care reform bill in the Senate. After all, it was Starr who first uttered the malapropism that later became a hit song (and movie) by The Beatles - A Hard Days Night . Saturday evening may shape up to be ...
  5 days ago

• Fed stalls on Chinese bank deal, costs taxpayers $1.7 billion

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Economy With regulators having seized 123 banks so far this year, one might think the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. would be looking everywhere to find potential buyers for failed financial institutions deposits and assets. But theres one place to which theyre apparently not quite ...
  5 days ago

• TARP saved the banking system, but failed at everything else

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Economy , Investing On the same day the Obama Administration floated a trial balloon to test the waters for extending TARP , the Congressional Oversight Panel heard from experts about TARPs effectiveness . While some of the experts did find aspects of TARP effective, they all testified to ...
  5 days ago

• Bull market or bubble? History suggests brace for the pop

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Investing Investors, analysts and strategists forever debate whether the equity markets are properly valued. Thats the whole point of investing, after all, to figure out whether an asset is cheap, and thus poised to go higher, or too expensive, and so set for a fall. Theres a bull and a bear case for ...
  5 days ago

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