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Daily Highlights: 2.05.10
- Asian stocks fall most in 10 weeks on US jobless claims.
- Australian central bank raises outlook, sees 3.25%-3.5% growth ahead.
- Bank of England voted against extending its bond buying program.
- China announces anti-dumping steps on US chicken amid trade disputes.
- China's stocks drop for 3rd week on global recovery concern.
- Gold saw its biggest slide in 16 months, joining other metals in a broad sell-off.
- Hong Kong stocks fall, headed for longest run of weekly losses since 2008.
- Swiss Franc declines from 15-month high on intervention speculation.
- U.S. stock slide continues as jobless claims weigh.
- U.S. Treasury to sell $77Bin bills.
- Abercrombie & Fitch January same-store sales were up 8% vs. cons est. of -8%.
- World stocks tumble after Wall Street decline amid concern about global weakness.
- Air Products offers to buy Airgas for about $7B in stock and debt.
- Berkshire to sell $8B of debt to finance the takeover of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
- Cigna swings to Q4 profit of $330M, topping estimates. Revs dip 3.8% to $4.64B.
- Colgate to buy back 40M shares over two years.
- CVS may get earnings 'windfall' from Lipitor, Plavix generics.
- DBS Grp Hldgs' Q4 net rises 67% to $347M on stronger fee income and stable expenses.
- Kellogg expects Y10 EPS growth of 11-13% vs. prev view of 10-12% growth.
- Kraft, Berkshire raise $17.5B for acquisitions.
- MF Global Hldgs reported its fourth consecutive quarterly loss, at $27.9M. Revs down 41%.
- Northrop Grumman posts Q4 profit of $413M, amid absence of charges.
- Reynolds American's Q4 net falls 17% amid declining volume, higher pension cost.
- State Street to pay back $313M to investors for misleading them about subprime.
- Sunoco Inc., cites weak fuel demand, posts Q4 net at $26M, down 87%.
- Thai Airways plans to raise up to $756M via equity sale to reduce debt.
- T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom is exploring an IPO or spinoff of the business.
- Toyota f'casts surprise net profit for the current fiscal year, sees recall cost ay $2B.
- Toyota to recall Prius in U.S. over brakes: report.
- Unibail-Rodamco to buy Simon Ivanhoe, a investor in shopping centers, for €715M.
- Weyerhaeuser Q4 loss narrows, misses expectations.
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Stiglitz warns against Fed stopping mortgage purchases
banksters have "buyers remorse" about Obama and the Dems?!?
how is it that our political leadership is a commodity to be bought, and I suppose banksters have it so good they can say they can say they are disappointed in the Mercedes compared to the Ferrari
"I sense a lot of dissatisfaction and a lot of buyer's remorse on Wall Street," said Rep. Eric Cantor (R., Va.), the second-ranking House Republican and a top Wall Street fund-raiser for his party.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703575004575043612216461790.html
Intersting article. I think it proves they are fucking whores.
And they are not ashamed to say it to the press, on record.
We really need a populist agenda to test both Dems and Repubs on in primary fights, this is disgusting
Hey Obama and team how does this exactly help anyone experiencing problems making their payments when being underemployed on their primary residence?
I mean if you want to steal for your friends and your friends alone why play games with people ...just tell them to flip off...oh I forgot that's exactly what your doing...
Why The IRS Is About To Set Off A New Wave Of Jinglemail
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-irs-is-about-to-set-off-a-new-wave-of...
TD....
In the Rose interview with Paulson....
How come the question about the real reason for Paulson's
taking the Treasury job ....approximately $200,000,000 in personal tax savings ?
Who wouldn't want this....as if this was not negotiated in some way by someone ?
And Paulson uses Rose to sell his book....make some more $....
What is this holier than thou bullshit ?
Any time a political figure uses religion in the context of what they used for guidance (remember bush/iraq) you know thats a red flag...the only god these pricks worship is money...you know the green type.
So now we're dumping chickens on China. That, after dumping all those US dollars and manufacturing jobs. There's a joke in there somewhere. Anyone? Anyone?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-to-set-anti-dumping-measures-on-us-chicken-2010-02-05
Are you crazy americans actually going to rally on these unenployment numbers ?
We are a little confused here in the eu