Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
» The NYSE has formally alerted Blockbuster ( NYSE: BBI ) that it has six months to get its stock price back above $1, or face being de-listed. [ MarketWatch ] » Five ex-Googlers are putting working full time on what they hope will be the next big thing, Brizzly. [ LA Times ] » Hoping to be the Canadian Pandora, Listen.fm buys up the remnants of Streamzy. [ TechCrunch ] » What...
Jim Hamilton’s World of Securities (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NYSE Forms Corporate Governance Commission as Legislation Looms Against the backdrop of pending federal legislation on corporate governance, the NYSE has formed a Commission on Corporate Governance to address U.S. corporate governance reform and the overall proxy voting process for public companies. Chaired by Larry Sonsini of Wilson, Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the Commission will take a comprehensive...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
By Paul Grimaldi The New York attorney general said Tuesday that Woonsocket-based CVS Caremark Corp. (CVS:NYSE) has agreed to pay $875,000 to settle charges that it sold expired products at its stores in that state. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo initiated legal action in 2008 against CVS after a survey by his office found expired products at 60 percent of CVS stores visited, Bloomberg reported....
Cara Community - Comments (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In reply to Daily Trading & Social Commentary for Nov. 5 : Markets opened higher on Thursday as a strong reading on productivity and an easing in jobless claims helped cheer investors. Will stocks continue to rise from this point? Steve Hochberg, chief market analyst at Elliott Wave International, shared his market outlook. “This has been a bear-market rally,” Hochberg told CNBC. “It’s...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
For anyone who fears he or she may hold Hollywood studio executives in insufficiently low esteem, the Wall Street Journal offers this trend story : Soon to be starring in his own feature-length film with Universal Pictures: Stretch Armstrong, the pliant, muscle-bound doll whose roots go back to the 1970s. Big Wheel, the plastic tricycle, has its own TV show in the works. Even the board game Risk has...
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Filed under: Earnings reports , General Electric (GE) , Time Warner (TWX) , Walt Disney (DIS) , Viacom (VIA) , Sony Corp ADR (SNE) , News Corp'B' (NWS) , Hasbro Inc (HAS) , Media World Viacom (NYSE: VIA ), a content player in competition with News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS ), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX ), Sony (NYSE: SNE ), and General Electric 's (NYSE: GE ) NBC Universal, issued Q3 numbers today. If we had...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A study published in Economics Letters questions the relationship between obesity and crime Fat people are more likely to become criminals, and their very fatness may help shape their criminality. That's the conclusion reached by Professor Gregory N Price in a study called Obesity and Crime: Is There a Relationship? published in the journal Economics Letters. Price, an economist at Morehouse College...
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Filed under: Earnings reports , Microsoft (MSFT) , Yahoo! (YHOO) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , eBay (EBAY) , Pfizer (PFE) , Coca-Cola (KO) , AT and T (T) , Altria Group (MO) , BB and T (BBT) , Boeing Co (BA) , duPont(E.I.)deNemours (DD) , Hasbro Inc (HAS) , AMR Corp (AMR) , UAL Corp (UAUA) , Wells Fargo (WFC) Here are some highlights from last week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Altria Group Inc....
Software - Infotech (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
NYSE has placed Mahindra Satyam on 'late-filers' list for its failure to furnish its annual report with USSEC by Oct 15. Satyam's rise, fall and resurrection | Satyam scam
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Filed under: Earnings reports , Mattel, Inc (MAT) , Hasbro Inc (HAS) Hasbro (NYSE: HAS ) isn't doing too well today. Shares of the toy entity are down 3.5% at the time of this writing in early afternoon trading. Third-quarter results are the catalyst, apparently. Management must hate this, because on Friday, rival Mattel (NYSE: MAT ) saw a bid after its own earnings release . Hasbro's top line contracted...
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Filed under: Earnings reports , Forecasts , Hasbro Inc (HAS) Hasbro Inc. (NYSE: HAS ), the toy and game maker whose brands include Transformers, Playskool, Milton Bradley, and Wizards of the Coast, is scheduled to discuss its third quarter 2009 financial results in a webcast Monday at 8:30 AM ET. You can catch the webcast live or replayed on the company's website . The three months that ended in September...
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Filed under: Earnings reports , Mattel, Inc (MAT) , Hasbro Inc (HAS) Toy maker Matte l (NASDAQ: MAT ), whose competitors include Hasbro (NYSE: HAS ) and JAKKS Pacific (NASDAQ: JAKK ), issued its Q3 release this morning. The numbers weren't as fun as some of the company's products, but investors are giving the stock a healthy bid as I write this. What would be the reason behind such reaction, especially...
Stockerblog - The Stock Market Blog (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
What Do the Following Have In Common? * Arnold Schwarzenegger * Al Gore * The band Coldplay * Leonardo DiCaprio * Jake Gyllenhal * 2008 Oscars What They Have in Common: They all claimed to have offset their fossil fuel usage by purchasing carbon credits. Personal carbon credit trading may not have reached the big time yet, but business carbon credit trading is big business. For example, $118 billion...
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Filed under: Hasbro Inc (HAS) , Stocks to Buy I'm reiterating my Buy rating for Hasbro Inc. (NYSE: HAS ), first recommended on June 22, 2009 at a price of $24.30, but there are qualifiers and conditions. First, Hasbro is now a high-risk stock, a downgrade from the moderate-risk category in June, largely on the continuance of the 'frugal consumer' trend in the United States. Continue reading Hasbro:...
(Blog) Red (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Celebrities including friend of (RED), Scarlett Johansson are helping out with Hasbro Inc’s PROJECT ZAMBI Celebrity Charity Auction which benefits organizations dedicated to the care of children orphaned by AIDS in Africa. The 10-day auction features some great custom designed collectable elephants, each signed by a participating celeb with proceeds going to the celeb’s organization of...
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