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will he show up in play off?
NY vs Miami should be fun to watch
FOMC meeting minutes
Investors awaited minutes from the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee's March 13 meeting, due at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT), that may provide clues on any potential quantitative easing.
Federal Reserve policymakers on Monday signaled little appetite for further monetary steps to stimulate U.S. growth in an economy that is gradually strengthening.
get ready for a dive next week
up .33 today
market is moving sideway
sea of red today
wow, blow my pants off
need those PTGFs lol
lol you are a good
word finder!
that is a good long term investment
green every where now
and more drop coming
DOG still hanging around that 50dma,
will break that soon and become a flying dog lol
3x, DOG went outside BB top, time to fall
interesting, this pinky up 5 folds in last 6 months!
CHNG showing some life
Spain drop 2% and the PIGS worry fly again
North Korea attack South Korea
and 2 solders die
buddiee, BIDU above 600 this morning
man, u must make a bunch
RIMM call is looking good,
thx
Motorola Sets Split For Early Next Year
Motorola Inc. said it would split into two publicly traded companies by the first quarter of next year, the company's latest attempt to reinvigorate its disparate businesses.
[MOTOROLA2B] Bloomberg News
Greg Brown (above) and Sanjay Jha will each run one of the companies.
The Schaumburg, Ill., company has long sought a break-up but recently shifted its strategic plans. The change was reported by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
Motorola Thursday said it will group together its core handset unit with the unit that makes television set-top boxes, placing them under co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha.
Fellow co-CEO Greg Brown would oversee a separate company selling two-way radios, bar code scanners and gear for telecommunications carriers.
"We have been at times a drain on resources on other businesses, and we've reduced shareholder value," Mr. Jha said on a conference call, adding the split would add value to both companies.
Under the plan, the two companies would each account for roughly half of Motorola's current sales, which were $22 billion last year.
They will share the Motorola brand. Mr. Jha's company will own the brand, and license it out for use to Mr. Brown's business.
The break-up will occur as a tax-free dividend of shares in a new company to existing Motorola shareholders.
Two years ago, the company said it intended to spin out its handset unit by the third quarter of 2009 and hired Mr. Jha to run it. But the unit's slumping sales and deep losses forced the company to put that plan on hold.
More recently Motorola's board and its bankers explored a sale of the set-top box business, but failed to get offers that they felt were attractive enough.
Investors, including billionaire activist shareholder Carl Icahn, have long pushed for a break-up of Motorola, because there are few natural connections between the various divisions.
"What they do in the next six months would either validate these plans or cause a train wreck," said Ken Dulaney, an analyst at Gartner.
The separation comes as the company looks to turn around its various flagging units. The higher profile handset unit has shown some signs of life with the success of its Droid smart phone, which benefited from a heavy push by Verizon Wireless.
[MOTOROLA2] David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Sanjay Jha.
The unit, though, remains under pressure as it changes its focus to a more profitable segment of the cellphone market, but still faces competitive pressure from the likes of Apple Inc.'s iPhone. Mr. Jha said last month he expects the unit to return to profitability by the fourth quarter, putting it on a sounder footing for the spinoff.
"They're doing well on their smart-phone strategy, and there remains a lot of opportunity there," said Matthew Thornton, an analyst at Avian Securities LLC.
The various other businesses continue to see declines as a result of weakened consumer and government spending. Customers have held back spending on entertainment, keeping sales of new set-top boxes in check. Local governments, many of which are facing budget deficits, are less inclined to invest in new public-radio systems.
Mr. Brown's company will assume Motorola's outstanding debt, which is expected to be about $3.3 billion at the time of the split.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703382904575059722397946464.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection
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HANG SENG up 200 today
maybe too early
ESLR Mar 2010 2.0000 call (QLUCK) @0.20
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=QLUCK.X
AAPL couldn't break
210 down
GLD Mar 2010 118.0000 call (GCZCN) @1.92
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GCZCN.X
One prominent voice within China said now is an ideal time for a 10% appreciation of the yuan, countering Beijing's assertion that the country doesn't need to adjust its currency.
It wasn't clear whether the call, from a think-tank-affiliated researcher, was a tip that leadership views on the yuan could be in flux or whether it was merely the expression of a contrarian view. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences regularly offers policy ideas to the Chinese government for consideration, though its views don't necessarily represent official government thinking.
China's bubble
Not just Dubai or the excess from the West. China has its own bubble.
If they build it, would they come? Not always. Large scale projects turned into ghost towns:
A completely new city built in China
as expected, lol
FOMC meeting note release tomorrow 2pm ET
PUT PUT PUT
SMH Jan 2010 27.5000 put (SMHMY) @0.25
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SMHMY.X
tempting
picked up some TZA last Thursday),
try to pick up some Jan 2010 12.5000 call (TZAAH) @0.10 but no fill
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TZAAH.X
ESLR Mar 2010 2.0000 call (QLUCK)
TZA Jan 2010 12.5000 call (TZAAH) @0.10
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TZAAH.X
nay, too far away
FTK looking good,
energy is the future!
Happy Holiday