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Dell Plans To Sell Polish Plant

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:45:57 GMT

Dell Inc. (DELL) recently announced that it will sell the two-year-old manufacturing facility at Lodz, Poland to a Taiwan-based company Foxconn Technology. Although the company did not mention the sale value. This manufacturing facility mainly serves customers in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa and has a headcount of nearly 1,600 workers.[More...]

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:19:07 GMT

As expected, Bank of America (BAC) will repurchase its $45 billion TARP preferreds, funded in part by an additional $18.8 billion in "common stock equivalents", $4.0 billion in asset sales, and $1.7 billion in restricted stock issued to employees in lieu of cash bonuses.[More...]

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:21:30 GMT

Good morning. Stocks tanked in the last half-hour on Thursday and while the major news outlets attributed the decline to either profit taking or some trepidation in front of this morning's big Jobs report, we'd like to offer a little more substantial reason for the 85 point dive on an otherwise subdued day of trading.[More...]

Credit Market Overview: Dec 4, 2009

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:07:42 GMT

Credit Market Overview December 4, 2009 When he and Bruce Willis are not saving the world from internet terrorists intent on shutting down the United States in “Live Free or Die Hard”, Justin Long spends his time battling John Hodgman to save the world from the other internet terrorist, Microsoft (MSFT), in ...[More...]

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:14:41 GMT

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet declined by $15 billion to $2,183 billion from the prior week, after the Fed presumably offloaded $2.7 billion in MBS: this is the first time since QE started that MBS holdings have declined. If anyone can tell us just who the idiots are who bought MBS from the Fed (and at what price), and who the even greater idiots are who are supposed to believe this, please send us an email.[More...]

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:38:07 GMT

China isn’t just leading the global economic recovery – it’s lapping the field.[More...]

Interesting Stat: How Much Private Sector GDP Is From Construction And Real Estate?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:15:56 GMT

Back in June, we discussed commercial real estate at length following attendance at a large real estate conference in NYC. Our tone was cautious and one question we wondered about was the percentage of GDP that real estate represents. We actually came across the answer back in August and meant to share then, but didn't get to it. Since the question/topic remains highly relevant to considering the potential negative economic drag from depressed real estate activity, we're sharing now -- the following table is from an 8/28/09 NYTs article, "Construction That Fueled Growth in the Sun Belt Slows":[More...]

Credit Market Overview: Dec 3, 2009

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:59:02 GMT

The credit crunch crisis of confidence which we appear to be crawling out of even though the debt and equity markets catapulted themselves higher earlier this year could be similarly argued to be a crisis that started in the credit markets which crunched confidence around the world as it could a collapse in confidence in the value of the securities investors held which corrupted the credit markets causing them to cease funding.[More...]

Wall Street Ends Mostly Higher, Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Jumps

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:05:13 GMT

US stocks finished mixed on Wednesday after Federal Reserve said economy "improved modestly" in late October and November.[More...]

Unemployment rises for south-central Idaho

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:48:00 GMT

Dec. 5--Unemployment jumped more than two percentage points in Mini-Cassia and nearly a full percentage point in Twin Falls and Jerome counties in November, according to Idaho Department of Labor.
According to the department of labor's monthly unemployment report, Lincoln County reported more than 15 percent of its population -- or about 400 people -- were unemployed.
Camas County, which reported one of the highest unemployment rates in Idaho in October, declined four percentage points to 12.8 percent.

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Dell Plans To Sell Polish Plant

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Credit Market Overview: Dec 4, 2009

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

Interesting Stat: How Much Private Sector GDP Is From Construction And Real Estate?

Credit Market Overview: Dec 3, 2009

Wall Street Ends Mostly Higher, Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Jumps

Unemployment rises for south-central Idaho

CompanionLink announces synchronization between PC and Android phones

Blanco students study the ins and outs of the stock market

Cisco has enough shares to close Tandberg deal

Cisco to proceed with $3.4 billion Tandberg deal

Gift Guide: Touch and Windows 7 in fresh PC lineup

Contractor to take on production in Poland: Dell plans to transfer ownership of factory in Lodz to Taiwan vendor

Richards' computer still not returned: Fired county human resources director has $1,500 laptop.

Dell to transfer production at plant in Poland to third-party vendor in Taiwan

Dell unloads Polish manufacturing plant

Cisco Controls Approximately 89 Percent of TANDBERG -- 90 Percent Condition Waived

Noetix Simplifies Reporting for Oracle® and PeopleSoft® Time and Labor

Cloud Computing Comes to Hong Kong as CSL Selects SIMtone's "SIMply Safe Everywhere" Universal Computing Platform

Customers Switch to HP Workstations for Improved Performance, Value

Ayna.com, the Most Visited Arabic Search Engine, Selects Basis Technology for Multi-Language Text Analysis

New Sopheon Strategic Roadmapping Software Enables Users to Quickly Adjust Strategies in Response to Changing Market Conditions

Cisco Disclosure of TANDBERG Share Acceptances

PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion on Qwest Communications International Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., AT&T Inc., Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. and Ecometals Limited

Cisco and The Frame Group Help Melbourne Airport Set Benchmark for Digital Airports in Australia

Mertech to Develop BTR2SQL for MySQL

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