Fred’s comparable store sales increase 1.1% in September
The Memphis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Fred’s Inc. reported total September sales of $161.3 million, up slightly from $161.1 million in September 2007. (FRED)
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Fred's Comparable Store Sales for September Increase 1.1%
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fred's Inc. (NASDAQ:FRED) today reported sales for the five-week and eight-month periods ended October 4, 2008.
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S&P Picks and Pans: Bank of America, Wachovia, AMD, Fred's, Ryder
Business Week (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
BAC preannounces third quarter operating results of $0.15, vs. $0.82, $0.52 below our estimate. BAC also announces a capital raise of $10 billion and a 50% quarterly dividend cut to $0.32. Results were hurt by writedowns of $2.5 billion and a roughly $2 billion provision build ahead of likely further credit deterioration. We are lowering our 2008 EPS forecast by $0.63 to $1.59, due to higher provision...
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S&P Picks and Pans: Bank of America, Wachovia, AMD, Fred's, Ryder - BusinessWeek
Business Week (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
BAC preannounces third quarter operating results of $0.15, vs. $0.82, $0.52 below our estimate. BAC also announces a capital raise of $10 billion and a 50% quarterly dividend cut to $0.32. Results were hurt by writedowns of $2.5 billion and a roughly $2 billion provision build ahead of likely further credit deterioration. We are lowering our 2008 EPS forecast by $0.63 to $1.59, due to higher provision...
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Judys?
Goldenfiddle (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The Lawrence Welk Show , Mary Poppins , Fred’s blog , and clips form the real Lawrence Welk Show .
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Getting clocked on the chin
Listings Lab Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
So some of the lads and I were drinking in Les Houches last night & ended up round Fred’s table drinking horrible rose and talking crap. I must’ve been talking even more crap than usual, and whatever it was I was saying apparently wound my mate up enough for him to chin me. I don’t [...]
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Lazy Way to Success Video
Tao of Simplicity (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Fred Gratzon, author of "The Lazy Way to Success" - which I really enjoyed - has created a 5 minute video on his website. This movie is really great and creative - with very good production values. Fred's philosophy is like Tao - avoiding hard work and, instead, succeeding through creativity and leverage through intelligent "play".
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Mid-Week Reading
EagleSpeak (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Fred Fry's Maritime Monday 130 - always a place to review the maritime week that was. Fred's photos this week include SMIT. F-35 a dead dodo? Steeljaw wonders here.
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New Department Of Eagles Live Video - "Herring Bone" (DUMBO Session)
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Dan Rossen Month continues with another cut from the Department Of Eagles DUMBO session that brought us the unreleased " 1997 ," featuring Dan and Fred alone in a Brooklyn room with a view. This live "Herring Bone" is stripped of In Ear Park 's arrangements and accouterments, presented here in its piano-man core, unadorned but for a few touches of Fred's rhythmic support. Rossen tends to dig...
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Audit Roundup: Mallaby’s Fallacy
MediaChannel (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
By Ryan Chittum, CJR Regulation not needed to prevent snake-oil sales; NYT on Fan and Fred's role in the subprime mess; etc..
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Audit Roundup: Mallaby's Fallacy
CJR Daily (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Regulation not needed to prevent snake-oil sales; NYT on Fan and Fred's role in the subprime mess; etc.
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Bad Fred Thompson. Bad.
mountaineer musings (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Do politicians buy lists of contributors from other politicians? Or do they just hand them over and say, Here ya go! I’m sure these thousands of people would love to get mail from you! When we were waiting for the debate to start Monday night, we could hear three people talking on the row behind us. [...]
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RBS board remains intact but heat is on
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Following publication of the report, it is understood that Sir Fred moved swiftly to protect his position, asking aides to try to flush out apparent boardroom opposition to his continued presence at the bank. Mr Hester, an RBS non-executive director, had already been earmarked by some investors as his likely successor in the event of Sir Fred's departure.
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Royal Bank of Scotland chiefs to be forced out under bailout deal
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... in exchange for preference shares. The emergence of an urgent need for capital had placed Sir Fred's and Sir Tom's positions under renewed pressure after the bank raised £12bn in the biggest rights issue in European history earlier this year and indicated that it would not need to come back for more.Sir Fred, nick-named Fred the Shred for cutting 18,000 jobs after the NatWest takeover, has...
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DonorsChoose Bloggers Challenge - Why?
Learn To Duck (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Why? What a disruptive question. The person who asks why constantly in an effort to learn always gets further than the person that accepts the direction and information presented them. Why? Here is why I have gotten involved with DonorsChoose. Dave Taylor, asked me to write an email to him as to why I decided to get involved: About [...]
