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Circuit City may shut stores to avoid bankruptcy

“I haven’t shopped at Circuit City since they made the decision to fire their experienced salespeople and replace them with cheaper new hires”
Plus, their novice sales staff, the last time I was there, five years ago, in the computer area, will completely ignore you or walk past you like you’re not there, or basically pretend [...]

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Stock Watch: China Meet Products Stocks-HOGS

A shift of focus has left China short of basic food products and undermined the governments old determination to be self-sufficient. But how can you take advantage of the race to feed the worlds most populous…and fastest growing…economy?…
As a country’s wealth grows, so too does its demand for more - and better - food. This [...]

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Shoe Pavilion going out of business

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shoe Pavilion Inc. said late Monday it will close all of its 64 stores after 29 years in business. Shoe Pavilion was once the largest independent discount footwear retailer on the West Coast.

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Disk swings to loss in third quarter

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — SanDisk Corp. late Monday reported it swung to a net loss of $155.2 million, or 69 cents a share, compared to a net income of $84.6 million, or 36 cents a share, in the third quarter last year. Excluding certain charges, net losses totaled $132 million, or 59 cents a share. [...]

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American Express quarterly net falls 24%

By Alistair Barr
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — American Express said late Monday that quarterly net income came in at $815 million, or 70 cents a share, down 24% from a year earlier when the credit card company made $1.07 billion, or 90 cents a share. Income from continuing operations was $861 million, or 74 cents a [...]

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U.S. recession start in fourth quarter and beginning to recover by the end of 2009

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Eaton Corp. on Monday is forecasting a U.S. economic recession starting in the fourth quarter, with a possible recovery beginning at the end of next year, Chief Executive Alexander Cutler said Monday in a post-earnings call. The Cleveland company, which makes electrical, aerospace and automotive markets, predicts “an extremely difficult environment” [...]

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Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.

“On day one” of the effort, Sen. George Allen of Virginia had not addressed Hagel’s bill and his legislative aide for housing was not assigned to it, the report said.
“Today,” the report added, “the senator is aware of the issue and … at the moment he is undecided.” Allen’s deputy chief of staff “has said [...]

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“After all, the Fed is giving away money for free.”

The Fed rate is 700% higher than Treasuries of the same term. The world’s wealth pounds Treasury yields down because they assess economic investment to be a worse deal. Thus, no one will ever borrow money above the market-driven Treasury rate.
The whole problem is the Fed is wantonly draining the economy of money with murderous [...]

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Officials: Financial crisis can lead to violence; Authorities are urging people to get help before they take desperate steps

Oct. 17: Millions of Americans don’t fall into the regular categories of race provided on paperwork. NBC’s Vivek Kemp is half-Indian and half-Caucasian. In this video diary, he talks about his experiences growing up in a multicultural family.
updated 7:23 p.m. ET, Mon., Oct. 13, 2008
An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and [...]

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Merrill Lynch Won’t Discuss Lehman Brothers Exposure

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER) dodged analyst questions
regarding Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s (LEHMQ) bankruptcy exposure.
On Thursday’s third-quarter earnings conference call, the firm stated it does not
discuss specific numbers in terms of counterparty exposure.
Lehman Brothers, which filed for bankruptcy last month, has affected many Wall
Street banks that had significant counterparty exposure to Lehman.
The [...]

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No wonder Chesapeake was pushing so hard for the Pickens’ plan.

Chesapeake said it expects total cash inflows of about $7.8 to $9 billion in 2009, down from its prior forecast for about $9.9 billion to $11.5 billion, according to a filing with regulators.
Late Tuesday, the natural-gas company said it expects fourth-quarter production of 197-201 billion cubic feet. Its fourth-quarter cash income is seen at $340-$450 [...]

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JPM will certainly survive, but as a puppet of government policy.

To those of you who think JPM is a great buy now because the government is taking a stake in it: The feds also took charge of FNM and FRE. Their shares are worth about a buck now, and going down. All the worst mortgages in the U.S. are being shoveled into the Government Wrecked [...]

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It is time to buy Zhongpin, Inc. (HOGS)

2008: there are 1.3 billion Chinese
Their favorite food PORK
2080 there are 2.0 billion Chinese
Their favaorite food PORK
Who is the most succesful pork conglomerate in China?
Zhongpin, Inc. (HOGS) (HOGS: 11.91 -1.73%)
On Oct 10 2008 they (again) raised estimates for 2008
Sales to be $ 550-$570 millions from $ 500 milion
Profits to be up to $ 1.17 a [...]

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Fannie, Freddie told to buy $40 bln of mortgages a month

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Federal regulators have ordered Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac to start buying $40 billion of troubled mortgage bonds each month as
the U.S. government tries to revive the economy, according to a published report.
A story from Bloomberg News on Saturday reported Fannie (FNM) and Freddie (FRE)
began telling bond traders last week that each [...]

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UPDATE: Justice Dept. Faces Tough Questions Over Tobacco Case

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–U.S. Justice Department lawyers came under heavy
questioning Tuesday by a three-judge panel as the tobacco industry appealed a
ruling that it had tried to hide the dangers of smoking from the public.
In the latest round of a landmark case begun by the government, judges from the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [...]

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