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[?]Submitted by World Coin News
New circulating subtypes:
These 2 coins are now magnetic, they must be made of steel core. The previous KM67 and KM68 were not magnetic.
(information and image by Yossi Barzelay)
Markets In Everything: Wearing A T-Shirt for Profit or “Selling the Shirt Right Off Your Back”
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Hi, my name is Jason. In this up and down economy I’m outsourcing my wardrobe (namely shirts) to corporate america and you! I’m going to wear a different shirt for 365 days straight in 2009, take multiple pictures throughout my day and blog about it. Days are sold […]
Google Monetizes Public Libraries?
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[?]Submitted by unsettling economics
With public libraries reeling under expanded budget cuts, Google’s new deal with the publishers seems to threaten public libraries, which offer Internet service.
Karen Coyle’s warning about Google’s new plan is short enough that I need not summarize it. Google’s response seems disingenuous.
Keep in mind that the major university […]
Market Scan for Small Cap Stocks on December 29, 2008
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[?]Submitted by Ducimus Plinius
Market Scan for small cap stocks
at the close of the markets on December 29, 2008
The table below identifies the stocks returned on my scan of the US markets for small capitalizations stocks likely to display the characteristics of stocks entering Phase II, as described by Stan Weinstein.
Under $5.00 […]
WELCOME TO PARITY
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Deflation is here. The question before the house: How long it will last?
Ideally, it’s just passing through, albeit throwing everyone into a temporary tizzy with worries that the U.S. is set to repeat the Japanese experience. Certainly the Federal Reserve is working over time in trying to […]
Aggregate Demand and Finance and the Collapse in Trade
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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
From “Trade-Finance Pinch Hurts the Healthy,” WSJ, 12/22/08:
The global financial crisis is drying up the financing that firms depend on for trade. That’s making the global recession nastier and deeper than it otherwise would be.
As with all kinds of credit these days, financial institutions are making less trade finance […]
Real Gas Prices Approach 7-Year Low, Saving U.S. Consumers and Businesses $1 Billion Per Day
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Gas prices reached a new 2008 low of $1.61 per gallon, which is the lowest inflation-adjusted price since March 2002 (using EIA data), as real gas prices approach a 7-year low. From the $4.12 per gallon peak in July, American consumers and businesses are now saving $357 […]
Nothing Crazy…
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[?]Submitted by My Ambitions as a Trader and Investor
Nothing Crazy…
Todays market action was painstakingly slow and tepid. I only made one new trade. I also spend some time adding to strong positions and slowly dissolving my laggards. Other than that, it was a rather average day. Let’s see what tomorrow […]
CHCG: Agreement to Acquire Jinhua Baofa Logistic Ltd. in Eastern China
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CHCG: Agreement to Acquire Jinhua Baofa Logistic Ltd. in Eastern China
By Fain Hughes, fhughes@knobias.com
China 3C Group (CHCG) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Jinhua Baofa Logistic Ltd., a logistic company in Eastern China, through its subsidiaries Zhejiang Yong Xin Digital Technology Co., Ltd. and […]
KIDS: Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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KIDS: Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
By Fain Hughes, fhughes@knobias.com
The Parent Company (KIDS) and nine of its subsidiaries have filed for voluntary protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code before the United States Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware.
In addition, the Company received a Nasdaq Staff Deficiency Letter […]
FSII: CEO Comments on Q1 Results, Q2 Outlook and New Order for ORION(R)
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[?]Submitted By Knobias ClipReport
FSII: CEO Comments on Q1 Results, Q2 Outlook and New Order for ORION(R)
By Fain Hughes, fhughes@knobias.com
FSI International, Inc. (FSII) reported financial results last week for its fiscal 2009 first quarter ended November 29, 2008.
Sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2009 were $12.2 million, as compared […]
Studios in a fight mean movie success for 2009
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Written by Michael Vass
There are dozens of ways to tell what a studio thinks of a film. In almost every case the most blatant actions of a studio tend to mean absolute confidence that a movie will bomb.
There are the cases were the director refuses to put […]
Kazakhstan 50 tenge 2008 - Space & Insignias
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[?]Submitted by World Coin News
New circulating commemoratives:
LINK: National Bank of Kazakhstan
SPECIFICATIONS
Weight: 11.37 g
Diameter: 31.00 mm
Thickness: 2.00 mm
Edge: grooved with 10 sectors of corrugation
Mintage: 50,000
Penny Stocks to Watch by Stock Analyzer for December 29th
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Penny Stocks to Watch
CCRY a stock we talked about last week has come along nicely so far. Resistance at .02 and .025 ahead if we keep heading up and support at .0125 .01 below that we must hold over.
FNM if we can break the 20 MA line at […]
Market Scan for Small Cap Stocks on December 26, 2008
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[?]Submitted by Ducimus Plinius
Market Scan for small cap stocks
at the close of the markets on December 26, 2008
The table below identifies the stocks returned on my scan of the US markets for small capitalizations stocks likely to display the characteristics of stocks entering Phase II, as described by Stan Weinstein.
Under $5.00 […]
Bailout?
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[?]Submitted by Jazz Suite
You think the auto industry has it bad? “jackzucker” posts at The Gear Page on another industry seeking a little bit of a stimulus package…
Jazz musicians Look to Federal Budget For Bailout Support
Notebook Computer Sales Beat Desktops in 2008:Q3, And Will Increase By +15.2% in 2009
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
NEW YORK (AP) — Shipments of notebook computers edged passed desktop sales in the third quarter for the first time, according to data from the research firm iSupply. Preliminary figures for the quarter show notebook PC shipments shot up 40% from the same period a year ago to […]
Darwinian Effect of Recessions: Weak Companies Fail, Leaving The Survivors Bigger and Stronger
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
NEW YORK - Economic cycles are Darwinian, picking off weak companies and leaving survivors stronger. A year into the recession, solid retailers have their pick of mall space. Respected banks are getting an influx of deposits. Tech companies with money to spend are having an easier time hiring.
It […]
A Christmas Card From the Oil Market
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Monthly oil prices in 2007 and 2008.
See alternative version here.
Great Depression II?
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Great Depression II? We’re still a long, long way away, see chart above of monthly unemployment rates, from 2007.1 to 2008.11 and 1931.12 to 1935.12.
Great Depression II?
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Great Depression II? We’re still a long, long way away, see chart above of annual industrial production growth rates, monthly from 2007.1 to 2008.11 and 1930.1 to 1933.12.
Update: Data are available here, the annual growth rate is calculated as the percent change from the same month a year […]
$1 Billion Daily Savings From Tumbling Gas Prices
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
MY WAY — Retail gasoline prices tumbled Friday to the lowest level in nearly five years. And while crude futures rose, analysts believed it was a temporary pause in an extended, downward arc as the recession spreads.
“We’re paying about a billion dollars per day less than we were […]
Quote of the Day: Government Can’t Create New Jobs or Wealth, It Merely Redirects Resources
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Governments cannot create but merely redirect. When the government spends, the money has to come from somewhere. If the government doesn’t have a surplus, then it must come from taxes. If taxes don’t go up, then it must come from increased borrowing. If lenders won’t lend, then it […]
Bank Regulators Sending Mixed Messages
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[?]Submitted by Businomics Blog
The newspapers report that the chief banking regulators are urging banks to lend money. But the front-line bank examiners, the men and women who work face to face with actual bankers, are giving different orders. They are telling banks to build up capital and liquidity, which […]
Markets In Everything: Hostel in A Jumbo Jet
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
A new hostel in a converted jumbo jet means you can enjoy all the fun of flying without leaving the ground.
HT: Sanil Kori
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