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Asian Stocks Trading Mixed — Stocks in Asia were mixed as oil traded near four-year lows and as the U.S. and China pledged to provide loans to finance trade by developing countries.... [Tags: asia, asian stocks, china, developing countries, loans]

DRAM prices drop to new lows — ... [Tags: dram prices, lows]

Mac web share hits 8.9% while Firefox tops 20% — New research data today from Net Applications has revealed both Apple and Mozilla bringing Microsoft's share of the web to historic lows for November. The Mac's usage share of the more than 40,000 websites tracked by the Internet firm has now reached 8.87 percent for the past month; the increase is a major jump from the previous record of 8.23 percent in September and is enough to have pushed Mic...... [Tags: apple, firefox, internet firm, lows, mac web]

DRAM and NAND flash pricing drop to new lows — ... [Tags: dram, lows]

“Total Fiction”: There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal To Buy Yahoo Search (Not Yet, At Least!) [BoomTown] — A report in the Times of London in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo’s search business in a convoluted $20 billion deal that would include well-known Internet execs Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn, is–in the words of one key player–”total fiction.” Actually, that’s Levinsohn speaking, on the record. But that’s also the essential word from all key players regarding the Times’ report. BoomTown has spoken to top sources at Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) too and all scoff at such a deal now taking place or that either side has been in any such discussions of late. Yahoo’s entire market... [Tags: boomtown, carl icahn, ceo steve ballmer, convertible preference shares, external investors]

Citi Continues Post-Bailout Surge — Citigroup shares were surging nearly 20% Friday, as they continued their rally from last week's lows.... [Tags: bailout, citigroup, lows, rally]

One of the things I've been saying recently on this blog is that the Dow is full of tired companies and tired stocks. I think the Nasdaq is much more representative of the current american economy than the Dow. And when I came across this chart on Andrew Finkle's blog this morning it got me thinking. This shows the Dow from 1924 to 1939 and the Nasdaq from 1995 to September 2008 (two months ago). It's too bad that the red line doesn't go all the way to this week because it would be even more striking. That's because the... [Tags: aapl, abde, american economy, bargains, big time]

Cranberries Go Abroad, a Tonic for an Ailing Industry — Facing a glut of cranberries forcing prices to record lows, farmers began selling their uniquely American crop overseas.... [Tags: american crop, cranberries, farmers, glut, lows]

First Looks: Westone Westone 3 Three-Way Speaker Earphones — Nearly two years have passed since we first wrote about Westone's Westone 3 ($400), a "three-way driver" earphone with drivers specifically dedicated to lows, mids, and highs respectively, unlike "triple-driver" solutions with two bass drivers and a high-end driver. We tested a prototype, found the audio to be very warm and bass heavy, and expected a final version by May 2007. Since then, 3 has apparently been through a pretty major retooling process,…... [Tags: bass drivers, driver solutions, earphone, earphones, lows]

Sumner Redstone May Sell CBS, Possibly No Longer Billionaire — Sumner Redstone, the controlling shareholder of CBS and Viacom, saw both those stocks hit five-year lows last week, further exacerbating what has already been an incredibly rough autumn. And while he has previously maintained that he will not sell CBS, the New York Times' Tim Arango reports that he is open to the sale — and is more seriously considering selling off his family's 1,500-screen movie theater chain to restructure his $1.6 billion in debt: In an effort to stave off the dismantling of his media empire, Sumner M. Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS, recently proposed to... [Tags: anonymity, billionaire, debt load, forbes magazine, inner circle]

Qualcomm: Stifel Ups To Buy; Says Bad News Discounted — Stifel Nicolaus analyst Cody Acree this morning upped his rating on Qualcomm (QCOM) to Buy from Hold, setting a $41 price target. In a research note, he says that the upgrade reflects a combination of trough valuations, a conservative ‘09 outlook and “prospects of future growth driven from new customer penetration and flailing competition.” Acree writes that he has been on the sidelines on QCOM for a long time, on concerns over litigation, competition, increasing operating expenses and, more recently, pressure on units, royalties and handset ASPs. But he says that the company’s “sobering” guidance accounts for his prior apprehension,... [Tags: apprehension, asps, bad news, chipsets, downside risk]

The week ahead in business — Wall Street faces another pivotal week, with investors enmeshed in a stock market that has been knocked down to 11-year lows amid fears about the fate of the nation's automobile industry and banking system.... [Tags: automobile industry, banking system, fate, fears, investors]

Note: This post was written in exchange for a crappy spider drawing. Send me a crappy spider drawing along with a subject for a post and I’ll write it, no questions asked. Now that the stock market is hitting new lows and layoffs are on the rise, it’s understandable people are getting a bit bummed out. I’m not exactly a pillar of happy happy joy joy but I’ve managed to maintain an aura of stability, partly because I went through a similarly crappy time at the tail end of the .com crash and harbor an unfortunate love for 1970... [Tags: bummed out, cosmic joke, crappy time, cup of coffee, dystopia films]

Citi's a Tough Sell — Citigroup executives began weighing the possibility of auctioning off pieces of the financial giant or even selling the company, as its market cap plummeted to unthinkable lows.... [Tags: citi, citigroup, giant, lows, market cap]

Dow ends up nearly 500 on Geithner treasury report — NEW YORK — Wall Street staged a surprising comeback Friday, with the major indexes jumping more than 5 percent and the Dow Jones industrials surging nearly 500 points in a late afternoon rally, ending another volatile week that saw stocks reach six-year lows. Stocks erased about half of the losses that came in steep selling Wednesday and Thursday after investors got an unexpected jolt of confidence late Friday following an NBC News report that President-elect Barack Obama plans to name New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary. Investors have been looking for a clear message from Obama... [Tags: afternoon rally, banking system, barack obama, brain trust, dow jones]

Tim Brown: Make the Call With Verizon — The stock may be trading at its lows, but the company is a solid choice that will bounce back.... [Tags: lows, stock, tim brown, verizon]

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Do it for me, matchbox man — From the fireworks in DC this week, you might think the auto crisis is out of your hands, but we're all complicit: government, CEOs, autoworkers, public. The Big Three automakers are incapable of imagining and executing better on a large scale, unless forced to do so. So the problem requires a hand to say: you industry barons will design a car that will meet our new needs. You will hit marks x, y, and z. And in exchange you, car industry, will be allowed to survive. The Big Three automakers make cars which cost too much and waste even more.... [Tags: alan mulally, barons, big three automakers, blind eye, car industry]

Lending Stalls, Banks On Sidelines — Stock prices are at six-year lows. Over the past two days the Dow Jones industrial average has lost more than 6 percent of its value. The $700 billion bailout was supposed to stabilize the financial industry and get banks lending again. But that hasn't happened yet. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us... [Tags: bailout, banks, dow jones, dow jones industrial, dow jones industrial average]

Dollar rises vs yen on Nikkei and Nakagawa remarks — TOKYO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The dollar rose over one yen from the day's lows on Friday as Tokyo share prices turned positive in the afternoon, and after Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said authorities must be ready to deal with big swings in markets.... [Tags: authorities, finance minister, japanese finance, lows, nikkei]

The great bull market of 2008 is in . . . Treasuries — Money & Co. blog: Yields dive to generational lows as panicked investors rush for safety.... [Tags: amp, blog, bull market, investors, lows]