Is a threat by Citibank to cut up to 30,000 jobs a signal that things are getting worst or better. Is that to save money and be more financially sound or the numbers are not coming in to support such a large work force? We have not heard or had a huge job cut announcements [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Citibank and world markets
Posted in bank, citigroup, job, retail, wal-mart, tagged bank, citibank, citigroup, europe, job cut, walmart on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Citibank and General Electric
Posted in bank, citigroup, durable, retail, tagged citibank, citigroup, durable, electric, GE, general, repayment, tarp, wal-mart, walmart on December 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Citigroup (C) will be in the headlines this week for sure. The company has 10 days to start repaying some of the TARP money and it is not clear how it is going to raise the capital. That will bring volatility into the stock. Most likely it will bring the price per share below $4.00, [...]
Microsoft: Adding bling to bing with Maples
Posted in advertising, microsoft, tagged Bing, maples, microsoft, msft, ward on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just make sure your first name is Chris and you have just increased your chances for a rough and tough advertising job. Now that Microsoft (MSFT) has replaced Chris Ward by Chris Maples as its new head of consumer and online advertising, let us hope there will be more bling with substance to the very [...]
Playing around with unemployment figures!
Posted in Bernanke, data, job, rate, tagged Bernanke, bubble, data, fairs, feds, job, over valuation, rate on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So now the government is down to using different parameters to come up with better or more jovial unemployment figures. Two things to keep in mind. First why do we need to switch from a survey of companies to a survey of households to obtain the unemployment number? Secondly, we are never really told how [...]
What is ahead after Dow 10500?
Posted in Dow index, tagged aapl, apple, bollinger, cost, cut, earnings, microsoft, msft, windows 7 on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now that we have touched Dow 10500, we probably will take a little breather in the coming day or days. If not then the markets will be in overheated grounds and there will be an even bigger profit taking on Thursday or Friday. One stock that seems overvalued at this point is Microsoft (MSFT). Considering [...]
