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  • October 2008

    • Big Oil Takes Big Hit in Stocks' Dive

      Wall Street Journal  |  Oct 7, 08 2:57 PM CDT

      Big Oil Takes Big Hit in Stocks' Dive

      (Newser) - Oil companies’ stocks are plummeting, but the majors are comfortable with long-term plans and bulging coffers, the Wall Street Journal reports. The global economy is pushing crude prices down, and analysts think measures are necessary to keep share prices up. But larger outfits like Exxon made investments based on lower oil prices, and appear to be waiting out the storm. More »

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      credit crisis  • oil companies  • BP  • Exxon Mobil  • stock price  • crude oil prices  • economic slowdown  • oil demand

  • September 2008

    • SEC Halts Short Selling on Financial Stocks

      CNNMoney  |  Sep 19, 08 6:56 AM CDT

      SEC Halts Short Selling on Financial Stocks

      (Newser) - The SEC temporarily banned short-selling of 799 financial companies today, an “emergency action" aimed at slowing sliding stock prices that have rattled investors’ confidence in recent weeks, CNNMoney reports. The practice, in which in investors borrow stock and sell it, hoping to buy it back cheaper and pocket the difference when the price declines, is thought to be partially responsible for recent worldwide market declines. More »

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      stock market  • markets  • short selling  • global market  • stock price  • stock buyback

  • August 2008
  • May 2008

    • Is There a Solar Bubble?

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 22, 08 4:01 PM CDT

      Is There a Solar Bubble?

      (Newser) - Stocks in solar-energy outfits are enjoying a sustained rally, but investors should remember the lesson of ethanol, Mark Gongloff writes in the Wall Street Journal . Once-loved ethanol stocks are now widely scorned—mainly because the energy source will never be viable without government subsidies. Still, despite solar’s advantages, shares are far from a sure bet. More »

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      ethanol  • alternative energy  • solar energy  • solar power  • speculation  • stock price  • solar cells

  • January 2008

    • Ailing Yahoo! Can't Keep Up With the Times

      ABC News  |  Jan 25, 08 2:25 PM CST

      Ailing Yahoo! Can't Keep Up With the Times

      (Newser) - After miraculously withstanding the dot-com crash, Yahoo is again poised to fall face first off a virtual cliff, with its plummeting stock hardly masked by national economic disrepair. But despite hemorrhaging users to Google, the company is still a huge presence on the Web, with 3 billion daily hits. So "what has gone wrong at Yahoo?" asks ABC's Michael S. Malone. More »

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      Google  • Yahoo  • recession  • Web 2.0  • tech stocks  • stock price

    • Tumbling Yahoo Now a Target?

      New York Times  |  Jan 11, 08 9:51 PM CST

      Tumbling Yahoo Now a Target?

      (Newser) - Yahoo's falling core value threatens the company's future and is ringing alarm bells for investors, the New York Times ’ Saul Hansell warned in his "Bits" blog. The central business of Yahoo.com, excluding subsidiary holdings, is worth less than half of its current share price, and a paltry 7% of Google’s $200 billion market value, according to one analyst quoted by Hansell. More »

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      Microsoft  • Yahoo  • Wall Street  • mergers and acquisitions  • online advertising  • takeover  • stock price

  • December 2007

    • Merrill Deal Yields $6.2B in Capital

      Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 24, 07 1:07 PM CST

      Merrill Deal Yields $6.2B in Capital

      (Newser) - With another quarter of massive writedowns looming, Merrill Lynch today announced a deal to raise up to $6.2 billion by selling discounted stock to two investors. Up to $5 billion will come from Temasek Holdings, Singapore's state-owned investment company. The other $1.2 billion comes from money managers Davis Selected Advisors, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      subprime mortgages  • Wall Street  • Merrill Lynch  • Singapore  • stock price  • capital

  • October 2007

    • Vonage Settles Patent Dispute, Sees Shares Rise

      New York Times  |  Oct 26, 07 7:26 AM CDT

      Vonage Settles Patent Dispute, Sees Shares Rise

      (Newser) - Troubled Internet telephone company Vonage gained a "new lease on life" yesterday when it settled a longstanding patent infringement dispute with rival Verizon. Vonage share prices shot up 70% in after-hours trading on the heels of a settlement that observers see as a "big win for Vonage," the New York Times reports. More »

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      lawsuit  • Verizon  • AT and T  • Internet phone  • stock price  • Vonage

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