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Peter Cohan's Blog Posts
Unemployment rate worse than expected -- leaps to 7.2%
01/09/09
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Filed under: Employees, Economic data, RecessionToday's markets are likely to move based on the higher-than-expected unemployment rate. At 8:30 a.m., the Labor Department announced a mixed employment picture: lower-than-expected job loss, yet higher-than-expected unemployment rate. But the more impor...
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Strike leads to 15% drop in Boeing's 2008 deliveries
01/08/09
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Filed under: Boeing Co (BA)Last fall, Boeing's 27,000 machinists went on strike for 52 days. Not surprisingly, this put a crimp in Boeing's ability to meet its production schedule. Until today, it was hard to know just how much damage that strike did. Now we know that Boeing's 2008 aircraft deliverie...
Madoff's thwarted plan to make off with $173 million in investor's cash
01/08/09
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Filed under: Other issues, Scandals, Financial CrisisBernie Madoff -- who continues to luxuriate under house arrest in his East Side apartment -- keeps losing more of his camouflage. Specifically, prosecutors found checks totaling $173 million which he had made out to his family members and friends p...
Economic stimulus plan has 50% chance of working
01/08/09
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Filed under: Financial CrisisPresident-elect Obama has discussed a $775 billion stimulus plan that involves $300 billion in complex tax cuts and targeted government spending on roads and bridges, broadband in schools, healthcare information technology, and alternative energy. Will it succeed? I'd say...
Economic stimulus plan has 50% chance of working
01/08/09
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Filed under: Financial CrisisPresident-elect Obama has discussed a $775 billion stimulus plan that involves $300 billion in complex tax cuts and targeted government spending on roads and bridges, broadband in schools, healthcare information technology, and alternative energy. Will it succeed? I'd say...
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Satyam: 'India's Enron'
01/07/09
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Filed under: India, ScandalsSatyam Computer Services (NYSE: SAY) has not opened for trading today but it was down 91% in "pre-market." When you hear why, you'll realize that Satyam could be India's version of Enron. There were glimmers of trouble a few weeks ago when Satyam's chairman, Ramalinga Raju...
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Does Bank of America have enough capital?
01/07/09
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Filed under: Bank of America (BAC), Financial CrisisBank Of America (NYSE: BAC) now stands as a symbol of the U.S. banking system, so it better not fail. Its CEO Ken Lewis decided not to take a bonus after taking $15 billion worth of taxpayer money from the TARP -- not to mention the 66% decline in i...
Oil up 52%, can gasoline be far behind?
01/06/09
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Filed under: Russia, Middle East, OilCrude oil has risen 52% from its December 19th low of $33 a barrel to $50. Can gasoline prices be far behind?
What's behind the move? Supply is down. For example, Kuwait and Qatar indicated they will implement the supply cuts that OPEC announced last month. A disp...
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How's that $8 trillion bailout going?
01/06/09
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Filed under: Other issues, Economic data, Federal Reserve, Financial CrisisSince December 2007, Washington has committed $7.2 trillion to bailing out the bad investment bets of our financial system. It's even thrown in a few billion for the pathetically managed automobile industry. And with the incom...
Vermont's sexy snowboard controversy
01/05/09
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Filed under: Consumer experience, Competitive strategyFreedom of speech has its limits -- even in Vermont. That's the conclusion I reached after reading about the controversy of a Burlington, VT-based snowboard manufacturer -- Burton Snowboards -- that puts an image of a naked woman on the surface of...
SEC is 0-8 on Madoff probes
01/05/09
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Filed under: Market matters, Scandals, RecessionToday Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) will grill the SEC on why it missed the $50 billion Madoff Securities Ponzi scheme. After all, over the last 16 years, the SEC investigated Madoff eight times and each of those times, it failed to discover the scam....
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Six small biz tips from a CEO who flies right
01/04/09
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Filed under: Management, Employees, Boeing Co (BA)Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) CEO, Jim McNerney, is managing a 159,300 employee aircraft manufacturer with $66.4 billion in sales and $4 billion in profits (both 2007 figures). If you're running a small business or aspire to start one, is there anything you c...
Will your credit card company forgive 70% of what you owe?
01/03/09
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Filed under: Deals, Consumer experience, Financial CrisisIt's beginning to look like people who borrow money on their credit cards are in a strong negotiating position with the credit card issuers. I find this really surprising; however, people have borrowed so much -- $2.4 trillion in installment de...
Will your credit card company forgive 70% of what you owe?
01/03/09
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Filed under: Deals, Consumer experience, Financial CrisisIt's beginning to look like people who borrow money on their credit cards are in a strong negotiating position with the credit card issuers. I find this really surprising; however, people have borrowed so much -- $2.4 trillion in installment de...
Are you riding the Obama rally?
01/02/09
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Filed under: Industry, Economic data, S and P 500, Financial CrisisSince the S&P 500 hit an 11 year low of on November 20th, it's risen 24%. Does this have anything to do with President-elect Barack Obama? I have absolutely no idea -- but it could. That was the week when Obama cut back on talking...
Would you accept a 50% pay cut to get a job?
01/02/09
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Filed under: Employees, Economic data, RecessionIf you were among the millions of unemployed workers looking for a job in 2009, would you accept a 50% pay cut? That's the question that Shaun Chedister faced last year, according to CNNMoney. And his answer, after spending eight months looking for a ne...
Why investors should use stop-losses
01/02/09
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Filed under: Indices, DJIA, Financial CrisisLast year global stock markets lost $29 trillion in value -- falling 42%. And although it does not get much media attention, there is something that investors can do when the stock market moves against them. They can set stop losses on their stocks which li...
Good News Watch: SEC keeps mark-to-market rules
12/31/08
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Filed under: Good news, Define investing, Financial CrisisI have been posting so much bad news over the last couple of years that I thought it would be interesting to try something different for a change: look for something that's truly good. If I can find it, I'll tell you what the good news is, why...
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Auction Rate Securities: $200 billion unfrozen, $135 billion to go
12/31/08
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Filed under: Good news, Financial CrisisAlthough it's still a far bigger scam than Bernie Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme, it has gotten a relatively tiny amount of attention. I don't know why but I suspect it's because the victims of the $330 billion Auction Rate Securities (ARS) swindle -- in whi...
Bernie Madoff's one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon
12/31/08
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Filed under: Scandals, RecessionActor Kevin Bacon famous for the six degrees of separation theory -- that is, Kevin Bacon is connected by film role to every actor through at most six other actors. For instance, Bacon was a guest on NBC's Will and Grace when Will said to Bacon, "You did a movie with V...
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