Description: Brett Arends tells us about one of the greatest trade blunders ever – a decision by Steve Jobs in 2003 to accept a safer but much lower returning investment in exchange for his 55 million Apple Stock options, now worth nearly $13 billion.
Source: Marketwatch.com – video report
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Date: 05/18/2010
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Description: When Home Depot reported its first comparable store sales growth in almost four years on Tuesday, plenty of investors wanted to see it as evidence that housing is back. “Our sales are an indication that the economy is recovering and the consumer is back,” Carol Tomé, Home Depot’s chief financial officer, hopefully told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Source: CNNMoney.com
Date: 05/21/2010
Link: http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/20/news/companies/home_depot.fortune/index.htm
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Description: Wall Street’s key measure of volatility skyrocketed on Thursday, as all major stock indexes plummeted on concerns about the European debt crisis.
Source: CNNMoney.com
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Date: 05/20/2010
Link: http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/20/markets/VIX_fear_index/index.htm
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Description: Epidavros Day Spa, in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., bears the name of the ancient Greek coastal town known as a healing sanctuary. But by the end of 2009, owner Sandra Rovira says the spa’s atmosphere was anything but restorative.
Source: NYTimes.com
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Date: 05/20/2010
Link: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/a-treatment-for-declining-sales/
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Description: The world’s first gold vending machine is drawing crowds to The Emirates Palace, the most expensive hotel in the world.ÂÂ
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 05/13/2010
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/05/13/n_gold_atm.cnnmoney/
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Description: Adobe launched an advertising campaign Thursday that takes an unexpected tack in its ongoing feud with Apple: proclaiming, in huge letters, Adobe’s love for the computer giant. Alan Murray and Walt Mossberg discuss this latest development.
Source: Marketwatch.com – video report
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Date: 05/13/2010
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Description: The quality and safety violations that led to the shutdown of a Tylenol plant were extremely serious, and could lead to tough action by regulators on drugmaker Johnson & Johnson.
Source: CNNMoney.com
Date: 05/14/2010
Link: http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/14/news/companies/tylenol_recall_plant_conditions/index.htm
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Description: Chief executive officers’ pay is shattering the glass ceiling. Boosted by a $47.2 million package for Carol Bartz of Yahoo! Inc. and $26.3 million for Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft Foods Inc., compensation for woman CEOs at the biggest U.S. companies is booming.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: 05/13/2010
Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aM3CXlOJRBcs
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What does this report have to say about the pay earned by CEO women executives?
Description: European privacy regulators and advocates reacted angrily Saturday to the disclosure by Google, the world’s largest search engine, that it had systematically collected personal data since 2006 while compiling its Street View photo archive.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: 05/15/2010
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/technology/16google.html?ref=businessÂÂ
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Description: All the presents and dinners purchased for America’s moms adds up to billions of dollars.ÂÂ
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 05/07/2010
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/05/07/n_cmr_mothers_day_numbers.cnnmoney/ÂÂ
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