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Among the events that turned the severe contraction of 1930-31 into the Great Depression was a series of defaults in Europe that essentially destroyed the world financial system.
That couldn't happen again, could it? http://goo.gl/cjY98
Occupy L.A.: 30 tons of debris left behind at City Hall tent city
http://goo.gl/v6Ye1
Goodbye Barney Frank, and Thanks for the Housing Crisis http://goo.gl/SazCV
Gumby-Like Flexible Robot Crawls in Tight Spaces
Harvard scientists have built a new type of flexible robot that is limber enough to wiggle and worm through tight spaces. http://goo.gl/rBNOO
Inergy, L.P. (NYSE:NRGY) , a propane gas supplier, reported that on November 21, 2011, its officer, W. Gautreaux, bought 20,000 shares of the company for a total value of $469,000 at an average value of $23.45 per share. Shares declined 1.79 percent, or $0.43, to trade at $23.56.
http://www.newsystocks.com/news/4107982
Moody’s Cuts Norway’s Eksportfinans to Junk
Moody’s downgraded Eksportfinans’s issuer and senior debt ratings to Ba1 from Aa3 ... http://goo.gl/M1mRc
A US agency has ruled that Apple did not violate graphic patents owned by S3 Graphics, a unit of Taiwan's HTC.
S3, which makes image compression technology, filed a complaint with trade agency, ITC, in May 2010.
The company accused Apple of infringing four patents, which it said were used widely in a range of Apple products.
http://goo.gl/iJSzr
Apple wins a key patent-infringement ruling against an HTC unit, while Focus Media ADRs plunge on Muddy Waters allegations. http://goo.gl/26vGK
BofA Warned to Get Stronger
Bank of America Corp.'s board has been told that the company could face a public enforcement action if regulators aren't satisfied with recent steps taken to strengthen the bank, said people familiar with the situation. http://goo.gl/Cxoyb
The amount of money missing from customer accounts at MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s brokerage unit could total over $1.2 billion, more than double the previous estimate. http://goo.gl/Fh6Em
Stuffit, hilarious video. Thanks!
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Analysts See 10% Rise for Europe Profits
As Europe’s debt crisis raises the risk of a recession, companies in the region show no signs of slowing with earnings growth poised to top their U.S. rivals.
Net income for companies in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index will rise by 10.5 percent in 2012 after increasing 11 percent this year, led by carmakers such as Porsche SE and retailers including Burberry Group Plc (BRBY), according to more than 12,000 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The gauge is headed for four straight years of income growth exceeding 10 percent, the longest streak since 1998, data show.
Bulls say the 16 percent tumble in European stocks since December has created bargains because profit growth will exceed the 10.1 percent estimated for U.S. companies, even though the economy in the 17-nation euro zone is expanding at one-third the pace, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg. http://goo.gl/q6Dmo
Spain’s Rajoy Says ‘Hard Times Ahead’ After Landslide
Mariano Rajoy won the biggest parliamentary majority in a Spanish election in almost 30 years and told Spaniards to brace for difficult times as the nation fights to avoid being overwhelmed by the debt crisis.
Rajoy, 56, who said on Nov. 18 he hoped Spain wouldn’t need a bailout before he can be sworn in as prime minister in a month, has pledged to slash the budget deficit and regain the nation’s AAA credit rating, without saying how he will do it. He inherits a stagnant economy with a 23 percent unemployment rate and borrowing costs back at the levels Spain was paying before it joined the euro. http://goo.gl/PrCUA
General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha , Wis. , to Beijing . In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research
centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year. but paid no taxes-the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the united States .
So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs. I guess this President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs. http://goo.gl/OqRoh
AND thank you Mr. Stuffit sir and others! I stumbled across this board several weeks ago and follow it religiously. Boob tube business channels are too slow and often lack relevant information. Here at this board, the volume of "data info points" allows me to access the current world market environment well before it's known to the regular financial masses. The early bird gets the worm!
Illinois unemployment rate rises to 10.1% http://goo.gl/VDUuA
European shares were set to fall sharply on Friday after closing at their lowest in six weeks in the previous session, with concerns mounting that borrowing costs in some euro zone countries could rise beyond sustainable levels and further deepen the debt crisis. http://goo.gl/2JvPr
stuffit, I'm guessing Obama is no long on Ann Barnhard's Christmas list. Great read -- sends some chills down my spine.
With 15 trillion, in hundred-dollar bills, one could wrap a 40-yard wide ribbon around the equator. Okay, use ones instead and the ribbon is just a little over 2 miles wide.
What a clusterflux. I thought I saw it spike up to 8.34 or something. 20K in 2 minutes -- really sick.
tried to pick some up at 5 for a quick turn-around but I needed Mr Miyagi's chopsticks to catch that one.
RMBS day trading Range:4.00 - 18.55
down 60%
Rambus Loses Antitrust Case Vs. Micron, Hynix; No Damages
http://goo.gl/ycXQg
Unable to find when trades resume. Anyone?
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=Tradehalts
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#rambus Jurors is discharged by Judge.
10 seconds ago
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#rambus 9 yes and 3 no
28 seconds ago
ouch!
thank you! for the link:
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All lawyers just came in. Jurors are talkative with eachother. We are waiting for the jidge
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#rambus I'm still not feeling well from food poisoning. Little dizzy. More Ramboids came to cout also. Nice to see that.
and another tweet:
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#rambus The settlement clerk is here in court also sitting next to the Jurors. She is the clerk that helps in settlement talks after verdict
And if they defecate in the park I would rub their face in it like a dog. My parents owned 10 blocks of homes/apartments back in the 60-80's in S. Calif. By gaming the system, one could live rent free anywhere from 6-18 months. They were typically welfare recipients. I remember cleaning up after they finally were forced out -- literally torn apart, defecated on the walls, up to your knees in junk; etc. The OWS crowd reminds me of this type of scum.
Barloworld Ltd. received orders from Vale SA’s Mozambique operations for 10 Caterpillar Inc. 797 “megatrucks,” which will add at least $400 million to revenue, Chief Executive Officer Clive Thomson said. http://goo.gl/FybFP
3Q11 Thailand Mobile Operator Forecast, 2011 - 2015: Thailand to have 84.7 million mobile subscriber connections in 2015 with DTAC taking 31% market share http://goo.gl/qGOKW
Emirates Orders 50 GE90-115B-Powered Boeing 777-300ER Aircrafts. The engine order list price and service agreement is valued at approximately $6 billion (USD) over the life of the contract. http://goo.gl/z7KO8
Walt Disney Co. said its profit jumped 30% in its fourth quarter, driven by strong results in its theme-parks and television divisions, and the company posted record profit and revenue for the fiscal year.
... http://goo.gl/zn8We
Latest Starbucks Concoction: Juice
The coffee chain is buying a small, upscale juice maker Evolution Fresh Inc. for $30 million—a deal that pushes Starbucks well beyond its coffee roots and shows how serious the company is about transforming itself into a consumer products player with a large presence outside its own stores.
... http://goo.gl/xkyFd
Inside the Hunt for MF Global Cash
Regulators hunting for about $600 million in customer money that went missing shortly before MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed said they are being stymied by the poor condition of the securities firm's records.
"Their books are a disaster," Scott O'Malia, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, one of the regulators leading a hunt that has stretched 10 days so far, said in an interview. "We're trying to figure out what numbers are the real numbers."
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http://goo.gl/7AYz1
Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin 30,000-lb, "Big BLU", earth-penetrating weapon, may be in high demand.
U.S. Plans Bomb Sales in Gulf to Counter Iran
The Obama administration has quietly drawn up plans to provide a key Persian Gulf ally with thousands of advanced "bunker-buster" bombs and other munitions, part of a stepped-up U.S. effort to build a regional coalition to counter Iran.
http://goo.gl/oZp3D
FYI: Intel, Toyota Drive Joint Research on Next-Generation In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
Intel and Toyota engage in leading-edge research to enable new usage models for mobile device connectivity in the car.
Joint research to focus on developing user interaction methodologies including touch, gesture and voice technologies as well as information management for the driver.
The connected car is the third-fastest growing technological device, following smartphones and tablets.
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/11/09/intel-toyota-drive-joint-research-on-next-generation-in-vehicle-infotainment-systems?cid=rss-258152-c1-271390
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 9, 2011 – Intel Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation today announced that the companies are working together to define next-generation in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that will enable new usage models for mobile device connectivity in the car.
According to Mobile Future, the connected car is the third-fastest growing technological device, following smartphones and tablets. With the car becoming an extension of today’s digital lifestyle, Intel and Toyota are working together to adapt features that drivers and passengers use in the latest consumer electronic devices to an automotive environment.
“Intel has been conducting research related to the connected car for years, and with the support of Toyota will extend that research to advanced services that will benefit the driver and passengers in many ways,” said Staci Palmer, general manager of Intel’s Automotive Solutions Division. “Through this joint effort, we hope to improve the driving experience by enabling a seamless connection between mobile devices and the vehicle so when brought together they naturally adapt and work in harmony.”
As technology converges with the car, silicon solutions serving the infotainment and telematics market are expected to rise from $5.6 billion in 2010 to $8.7 billion in 2018.1 Intel and Toyota aim to integrate advanced technologies in the vehicle in a more intuitive manner that reduces driver distraction. To accomplish this, the companies will focus research on developing a user interaction methodology including touch, gesture and voice technologies as well as information management for the driver. Intel will also work to optimize these features and services using the performance of the Intel® Atom™ processor family.
“Toyota aims to lead the future mobile world through integration of vehicle, home and information communication technologies as announced in the ‘Toyota Global Vision’ earlier this year,” said Kenichi Murata, project general manager, Electronics Development Div. 1, Toyota Motor Corporation. “Toyota, along with Intel, will use information technologies to drive innovations into the vehicle to make the vision a reality.”
The companies will also explore emerging connectivity technologies and effective ways to integrate vehicles with the home to provide a seamless connection across all areas of people’s lives.