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Crescenzi: Art Market Shows Affects Of Bad Economy - Cnbc
sotheby's held an art auction on tuesday and the results were weak, with total sales of $125.1 million, which, according to the new york times, was well below the low estimate of $202.4 million. only 68% of the art offered was sold, the lowest rate ...
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Homeaway: A Find In Online Vacation Rentals
there's no place like a second home. or so the backers of vacation-rental startup homeaway believe. venture capitalists are so enamored of the three-year-old austin (tex.) company, in fact, that they're plowing a staggering $250 million into homeaway -- the biggest investment in an internet outfit since the height of the dot-com bubble in 2000.
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Bank Forum Addresses Housing Bubble
the housing mess, as some may assume, is not simply a product of stock market failure and greed.
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Bubble: Toil & . . . - New York Post
having trouble making your mortgage payment, selling your home or finding enough equity in your house to help fund needed repairs? well don't take out all your frustrations on angelo mozilo, the ceo of countrywide financial, the country's no. 1 ...
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Petmed Bites Back At Recession - Msn Moneycentral
pets.com was the dot-com bubble’s poster child in 2000 - the last company to go public before the bubble burst. but i’m starting to think the company was simply ahead of its time. the pet products market is booming. now is a good time to be fido ...
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Will Sun Be Forced To Sell Itself?
sun microsystems could be forced to sell itself or some of its assets as the economic crisis worsens problems facing the high-end computer maker, which has been struggling since the internet bubble burst in the early 2000s.
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Ntt Docomo To Buy Into Fast-growing India
the japanese telecoms provider is buying a 26% stake in tata teleservices in order to expand into the world's second-largest cellular market.
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Was The Global Financial Crisis A Media Failure As Well? - Lebanon Daily Star
the media stands accused of failing to foresee the global financial crisis, of a lack of understanding of the issues, and even of having a hand in the problems we now face. the editors weblog discussed the issue with danny schechter, a respected ...
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The Bubble Years And Beyond - Seekingalpha.com
did you get burned on housing, fannie ( fnm ) or freddie ( fre )? did you not buy altria ( mo ) in 2000, yielding over 9%, and miss out on 24% a year since? if you did, it is because you have not read james grant's interest rate observer or, if you ...
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How To Embrace The Bear With Killer Strategies
guess what: the bailout doesn't seem to be working. rather than depend on the government, here are some hands-on strategies you can implement yourself.
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The Return To Normality Is Here
it's been a long time, but the fallout from the bubble is finally over.
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Tycoon Seeks To Tighten Hold On Telecom Company - The Ledger
hong kong — richard li, the hong kong tycoon, is moving ahead with efforts to buy out minority shareholders in the telecommunications company pccw, but he faces a struggle to secure enough support. the singapore-listed holding company pacific ...
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Nortel Could Cut Up To 5,000 Jobs Next Week: Analysts - Msn Moneycentral
toronto (reuters) - nortel networks corp could shed between 3,000 and 5,000 jobs when it details its latest restructuring plan next week, analysts said on tuesday. the company, north america's biggest maker of telephone gear, said in september that a ...
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Sun Faces Pressure To Sell - But Who's Buying?
observers weigh the options.
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World Financial Crises In Last 40 Years
(reuters) - world leaders will meet in washington on november 15 to discuss overhauling international structures in response to a financial crisis that now threatens global recession.
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Nortel Job Cuts May Total 5,000: Analysts - Globe And Mail
toronto — — nortel networks corp. could shed between 3,000 and 5,000 jobs when it details its latest restructuring plan next week, analysts said tuesday. the company, north america's biggest maker of telephone gear, said in september that a weak ...
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Don't Lay Global Housing Bubble On U.s. Doorstep - Globe And Mail
ottawa -- everyone appears to think that the credit crises that engulf the world trace back to american greed, reflecting in a global judgment of rare unanimity the supremely funny headline on the satirical british website the daily mash: "bastard ...
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Sun Micro Pressured To Sell, Buyers Wary
shares have nose-dived 77 percent this year and investor frustration has been compounded by sun's high operating expenses and failure to boost profitability.
www.informationweek.com

Prices Take The Plunge: The Fall Of The U.s. Consumer
*** no 'soft landing' for global growth…biggest decline in consumer spending in 28 years…and more!
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What Do Terms 'bubble,' 'crash' Really Mean? - Washington Post
aremember the phrase "irrational exuberance" popularized by former fed chairman alan greenspan to describe the stock boom of the 1990s? a bubble is like a gold rush -- lots of people trying to make a quick buck by betting that something is going to ...
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