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No Lost Decade for U.S. Department Stores

The U.S. response to the sector slowdown was quicker than Japan's.
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Innovation, Schminnovation – Welcome to the Boring Age

Innovation, Schminnovation – Welcome to the Boring Age

We flatter ourselves by imagining that we live in an age of endless invention and innovation. We don’t. By almost any reasonable measure the inventions of the last few decades pale against the great inventions of the past, and we rely so heavily on mostly unchanged hundred-year-old doodads that we would, as a species,...
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Dan Apfel: Move Our Money: Why Universities Should Join the Movement

How much money do you have in the bank? Whether it's $1,000 or $1 Million, those deposits cumulatively have a big impact on the local...
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Readings: Air Pockets, Chance, Oil, Bees, Vaccinia, Data, etc.

Readings: Air Pockets, Chance, Oil, Bees, Vaccinia, Data, etc.

Stocks Head for an 'Air Pocket' as Yields Rise: Chart of Day (Source)Chance News 61 - ChanceWiki (Source)The curious story of Chinese oil refining (Source)Breezy Love, or the Sacking of the Bees (Source)Vaccinia virus in Brazil: What a long, strange trip (Source)Google - public data explorer (Source)
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Gushan Environmental Energy Limited Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

Gushan Environmental Energy Limited (GU) Q4 2009 Earnings Call March 10, 2010 8:30 am ETComplete Story »
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Wholesale inventories unexpectedly falls and I/S ratio now at record low

March 10, 2010
By Peter Boockvar at The Big Picture
Wholesale inventories unexpectedly falls and I/S ratio now at record low

Jan inventories at the wholesale level unexpectedly fell by .2% vs a forecasted gain of .2% and Dec was revised lower by .2 of % pt to a decline of 1%. Durable good inventories fell across the board, in auto’s, computers and machinery partially offset by a rise in nondurables, led by groceries. Auto...
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Genius!

March 10, 2010
By Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture
Genius!

This is dead pan brilliance: Maritime Ship Construction and Environmental Concerns Back to work!
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Secondary Sources: Fed Seats, Paul Ryan, Extended Jobless Benefits

Secondary Sources: Fed Seats, Paul Ryan, Extended Jobless Benefits

A roundup of economic news from around the Web.
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Canaccord Launches On Netflix, Conistar With Buy Ratings

Canaccord Launches On Netflix, Conistar With Buy Ratings

Canaccord Adams analyst Jeff Rath this morning launched coverage on both Netflix (NFLX) and Coinstar (CSTR) with Buy ratings.Netflix: He sets an $85 price target; the stock closed yesterday at $69.94. He contends that NFLX “stands to be a major beneficiary” of the move to online video. He notes that
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Northern Crock: No news is good news

March 10, 2010
By Joseph Cotterill at FT Alphaville

Or so say RBS analysts, in their note on the Cock’s loss-cutting results out on Wednesday (emphasis ours):No new information that would move the cash bond prices here which...
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