October 31, 2011 OECD Projects Economic Weakness Through 2013 Eurozone Inflation Above 3% Advisor Defends Obama’s Handling of Economy Chicago Business Barometer Declines in October Sarkozy Attacked for Seeking China’s Help Farm Prices Report Today at 3PM Europe May have Blown its Last Chance to End Crisis Oil Futures Lower Today Spain Economy Flat in Q3 US Stocks Drop Consumers Terrified but Still Spending Restaurant Operators Report Better September Day of Irony as Greeks Still Disgusted MF Global Suspended Macy’s will Open at Midnight on Thanksgiving Day The Commercial Space Race Pulls Boeing in Qantas Rivals Circle Yahoo Shares Sink as Focus on Asian Business Sale Canadian Pacific up on Ackman Stake Humana Up on Profit Forecast 2 Ladies Accuse Cain of Inappropriate Behavior Oakland Protesters Call for City Wide Strike Armed Militia Shows up to Guard Occupy Phoenix Tensions Escalate in Denver US Building Up Troops in Gulf for Iran Mission Israel will Make No More Concessions World Reaches 7 Billion People PIZZA WARS: Dominoes Guys Burn Down Rival Papa John’s Location Girl Caught in Noose at Haunted House, People thought she was a Prop Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 27, 2011 Global Stocks Rally on Greece Solution Europe Bolsters Crisis Fighting Tools Criticism Remains over EU Arrangement Some Greek Banks to be Nationalized Obama Acting Like the Candy Man for Kids Dollar Plunges as Euro Rallies GDP Surprise in Q3, +2.5% Unemployment Claims were About the Same Papandreou Presents Deal to Greeks Pending Home Sales Soft in September Consumer Confidence Deeply Beaten Gold Moves Even Higher Mortgage Forecast Proved Spot On Natural Gas Report Exxon Mobil Profit Machine Groupon IPO Fire Nintendo Losses Grow Time Warner Cable Profit Misses Hertz Puts Dollar Thrifty Bid on Hold United Continental Profit Misses Occupy Oakland Protesters Rally Around Injured Veteran 4.7 Mag Earthquake Strikes Northern California Northeast Braces for Snowfall Nationwide Strike Set for November 2nd Man Pulled from Rubble 4 Days Later in Turkey World Series Game 6 Preview Madoff and Wife Considered Suicide Oil is Higher Today Europe Begs Chinese Aid Debt Collectors Harrassing People Medicare Premiums Up Less than Expected Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 26, 2011 Euro Up on German Approval of Rescue Fund EU Leaders Meet to Discuss Greek Debt Write-down Wealthiest Americans Tripled Incomes Obama Wants to Forgive Student Loan Debts New Home Sales Rose on Price Cuts in September Europe is Split on What to Do Gold Hits One Month High Durable Goods Orders Rose in September Mortgage Applications Rebounded Last Week Argentina Selling Dollars Boomers Staying Put in Retirement Crude Prices Declining Oil and Gasoline Inventory Increased Last Week Greek Government About Finished Amazon.com is the Latest Tech Company to Take a Hit Boeing Profit Surges but Cuts Delivery Forecast Ford Profit and Shares Down Sprint Needs to Raise Capital Lockheed Raises Outlook Troubled First Solar Releases Results Early Gupta Charged with Securities Fraud on Goldman Tip Occupying Chicago’s City Hall Global Occupy Wall Street Developments Tensions Still High in Oakland After Clashes Greeks Invoke Nazi Memories as Hatred Flows in Europe Mom Arrested, Kids Rescued from Cages Chaz Bono Finally Dropped from Dancing Northern Lights Shine as Far South as Atlanta Parents Cleared of Abuse Claim of Kid Named Adolf Hitler Why Won’t Mitt Romney Make his Tax Returns Public? 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Earnings Calendar October 21, 2011 China Slams US Over Solar Complaint President Obama Signs Trade Deals with Three Nations Merkel Rebuffs Sarkozy on Euro Area Solution Dollar Hits Record Low Versus Yen Oil Prices Rally Ahead of the EU Summit Italy Delays Reform Package Gold Prices Slide California Employers Add 11,800 Jobs in September Bailout Critic Nominated to FDIC Post Chaos May Rule if we Don’t Slacken Unemployment Benefits Rules Era of Cheap Chinese Imports is Ending Obama Pulls Troops from Iraq China’s Great Wall Eaten Away by Illegal Mining Sugar Traders Most Bearish in Three Months GE Profit Up 18% Groupon Sets November 4 IPO Date McDonald’s Net Income Rises Wal-Mart Drops Some Employee Health Benefits BP Closer to Drilling New Wells in the Gulf Ford Gets its Credit Upgraded Honeywell Shares Jump After Raises Forecast Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight Second Earthquake Strikes San Francisco Bay Area Santorini Volcano Rumbles After Gaddafi, Syria’s Assad is Next Lots of Water Located in Distant Solar System New Computer Virus Threatens Iranian Nuke Program Baby Lisa Irwin Spotted NBA Labor Talks Break Off Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 20, 2011 Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Have Bailouts in Common Germany and France Disagree on Bailouts EU Focuses on its Bank Capital Needs Troika: Greek Debt Not Sustainable Philly Data Turns Positive on Manufacturing Pace of Leading Economic Indicators Eases to 0.2% in September Pace of Existing Home Sales Slows in September Jobless Claims Sticks High Consumer Comfort Index Sours Beige Book Sees Modest Expansion Rate Euro Drops Against Dollar Natural Gas Report Oil Prices Little Changed China Keeps Buying Ore Bullard Remarks on Economy New York Times Up on Digital Revenue eBay: a Buy Sell and Hold AT&T Sales Miss Estimates McGraw-Hill Shares Sink as Demand for its Ratings Dive Travelzoo Beats and Rises Southwest Airlines Falls Lilly Profit Declines Turkish Troops Enter Iraq Libyan Fighters Confirm Gaddafi Killed Despot Gaddafi is Dead Graphic Video of Dead Gaddafi Married 72 Years, Died Hours Apart Odds of Getting Hit by German Satellite this Weekend Clinton: We Intend to Push Pakistan Cards Come Up Aces in Game 1 Comets Raining Down on Distant Solar System Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 19, 2011 Americans Say They Will Switch Banks Over Fees French Fears Growing Over EU Crisis Cain’s Tax Plan Challenged in Debate as Threat to Poor Euro Fix Still in Doubt Housing Starts Surge in October Consumer Price Index Up 0.3% in September Mortgage Applications Drop in Holiday Period Boston Fed Conference Fed Beige Book Gold Dives, Dollar Rises Oil Price Risks Ease Oil and Gasoline Inventory Decrease US House Reviewing China Trade Euro Strengthens Apple Brings Down the Tech Sector Apple Misses EPS Estimates Yahoo Beats, Shares Rise Abbott Labs to Split Company in Two United Technologies Shines Amid Gloom Accounting Lifts Morgan Stanley UAW Agrees to Deal with Ford Supervalu Swings to Profit GOP Debate Gets Feisty Greece Under Mother of All Protests Another Satellite Hurtles Toward Earth Turkey Bombs Kurdish Rebels Five Muslim Men Arrested with Photos of Targets Across the Nation Wild Animals Escape Preserve in Ohio Obama Takes Side of Occupy Wall Street US Troops Mass Along Afghan Border with Pakistan Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 18, 2011 China GDP Slows Moody’s Considers French Rating Cut Ron Paul Proposes $1 Billion in Budget Cuts Merkel Says EU Summit Will Set Greece Plan Euro Struggles on Warning Producer Prices Heat in September Homebuilder Confidence Up in October Foreign Demand for US Securities Increased US Weekly Chain Store Sales Up Geithner Testifies on Small Business Act Greek Union Warns of Austerity Death Spiral Euro Clobbers Gold Goldman Sachs Sees First Loss Since Crisis Bank of America Posts $6.2 Billion Profit UnitedHealth Sees Cost Increase VMware Beats but Warns IBM Slips on Talk of Tough Times Ahead Harley Davidson Posts Profit Increase Coca-Cola Net Income Up in Q3 Schalit Freed in Israeli Palestinian Prisoner Swap Branson Opens First World Spaceport Chinese Toddler Run Over Twice as Nobody Stops to Help Somali Militants Facing Kenyan Troop Advance Who Should Pay for Obama’s Bus Tour? Sarandon Calls Pope a Nazi World Series Preview Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 14, 2011 Retail Sales Up 1.1% in September S&P Downgrades Spain EU Rumored to Consider 1-Time Greek Write-Down Consumer Sentiment Sags in October IAEA Advises Japan to Get Real Anti-Tax Group Supports Cain’s 999 Plan Oil and Natural Gas Charge Ahead Geithner Sees EU Moving Toward Crisis Package Risk Rally for Euro Resumes No G-20 Progress Seen on Yuan Strength Import Export Prices Up in September Monthly Treasury Budget Business Inventory Data for August Apple Fans Line up for iPhone 4S Fitch Downgrades UBS, Warns Other Banks Mattel Margin Concerns Send Shares Lower SAP Results In Google’s Gangbuster Quarter BP, Halliburton and Transocean Receive US Violation Notices Solyndra Almost Won US Navy Deal Clean Up Postponed but Protesters Arrested Anyway Manhattan Arrests How Global Media is Covering this Israeli Soldier Likely to be Freed Shortly Pelosi Freak Out as Insurance Abortion Funding Killed Missing Libyan Missiles Show Up on Gaza Border Berlusconi Barely Keeps Power Indisputable Evidence of Yeti Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 13, 2011 Devil in Details of Cain’s 999 Tax Plan Obama’s Jobs Bill Going Piecemeal Now Trade Deficit with China Hits Record Overall Trade Deficit About Unchanged Jobless Claims About the Same at 404K Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index Drops to Minus 50.8 Foreclosures Up 1% in Q3 Yuan Down Sharply Against the Dollar EU Banks Face Scrutiny IMF Says China has Scope to Deal with Risks Wall Street Facing Round of Layoffs Slovakia Clears Way for Euro Bailout Fund Gold Off a Bit HP Still has Top PC Share Natural Gas Report Petroleum Status Report RIM Deals with Blackberry Shortage Apple Working on Movie Streaming JP Morgan Q3 Profit Off Less than Expected AOL Shopping Itself to Yahoo? Ford Says UAW Local Voted Down Deal Safeway Profits and Shares are Higher Bloomberg Tells Occupy Wall Street Protestors to Leave Zuccotti Park by Friday Earthquake Rattles Bali 5.3 Mag Quake Off Oregon Coast Intelligence Chief Says Chain of Iranian Attacks Possible Saudis Want Blood Iran Says It’s a Lie Teacher Sets Herself on Fire in Front of Kids 8 Killed in So. Cal Shootout Cain Now Leads GOP Race Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 11, 2011 Occupy Wall Street Marches to Millionaire Homes in NYC Taking it to Their House! Lenders Give Lukewarm Approval to Greek Aid Tranche Trichet Sees Systemic Threat, Wants EU Banks Funded Slovakia Poised to Ruin it All for Europe Chinese Currency Legislation Set to Pass Senate Dangerous German Push for Greek Default Democrats Scramble to Save Face on Obama’s Jobs Bill Small Business Optimism Sees Modest Gain Private Equity and Venture Capital Market Slow OPEC’s Monthly Oil Market Report Populist Movement Threatens Big Business Economy Challenging the Sports Industry Why Jim Rogers is Right About Commodities Detroit’s Improbable Comeback 6 Million Americans About to Lose Benefits 99 Cents Only Buyout Dollar Thrifty Off the Market Wal-Mart and Facebook Agree to Web Venture Goldman Sachs EPS Collapse Netflix Ditches Qwikster Idea NYSE Hack Attack Fizzles AMR Cutting Capacity Christians Persecuted in Egypt Republican Economic Debate Tonight NBA Cancels First 2 Weeks of Season Iraq Threatens to Cut Military Links to U.S. Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 7, 2011 September Employment Report Shows 9.1% Rate, 103K Net Job Creation Occupy Wall Street Spreads Stocks Shed Gains Greenspan: US Facing Danger from Europe IMF Official Says Greece Talks Not Through Greece, Germany Sign MOU Merkel Says ESFS Must be Last Resort for Banks Bank of Japan Sees EU Dangers Dollar Red Flags Gold Price Rise Housing Bust Worst Since Great Depression August Wholesale Trade Report Looks Healthy Consumer Credit Data at 3 PM How Bad Would Recession Be? Turkey Moves to Halt Lira Decline European Banks Downgraded Southwest September Traffic Up Retailer Discounts Lure Shoppers Apple’s Biggest Test Still Ahead Wozniak Remembers Steve Jobs Movement Hijacked? Demi-God Gov’t Reps Can Put You on a Kill List She Fired 11 Bullets and Got Acquitted of Murder Israel Simulates War Call Up Draco Meteor Show this Month How Herman Cain Became a Front Runner Weak Economy Hits States Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 6, 2011 Steve Jobs Passes Away Jobless Claims Stick Upward of 400K President Winning Jobs Argument with Public Geithner Says Europe Moving too Slowly Reid Concerned about Waning Support for China Bill Consumer Comfort Index at Minus 50.2 Bank of England Increased Asset Purchase Program ECB Resumes Unorthodox Measures Mortgage Rates Mark New Record German Industrial Orders Down in August Gold Steady Crude Mixed Trichet Legacy Hinges on Crisis Natural Gas Inventory Increased Microsoft Says Not Near Yahoo Bid Jobs-Less Apple is a Worry Target and Limited Beat Monthly Sales Estimates Dexia Halted: Shareholders May Empty Up with Zero Express Scripts Up on Better than Expected Bad News Constellation Brands Profit Climbs GE Reports Slow Recovery Sarah Palin Not Running for President Occupy Wall Street Movement Growing Suspicious Package Shuts Streets Near Capitol New Cloning Technique May Drive Personalized Medicines Pakistan Rages About American Treatment Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 5, 2011 Clashes in Athens as Workers Strike Senate Dems Propose 5% Surtax on Millionaires EU Bank Plan Hopes Shore Up Stocks Layoffs Highest in 2 Years ADP Shows 91K Net Jobs Added to Private Sector Service Sector Holds Above Water Line Mortgage Applications Dropped in Latest Check Oil and Gas Inventory Dropped Last Week Moody’s Downgraded Italy 3 Notches Euro Up for Second Day Crude Up 5% Gold Rebounds Bernanke Does Nicholson Imitation White House Concerned about China Currency Bill Microsoft Considers Buying Yahoo Pros Weigh RIM Takeover Talk Drug Resellers Probed for 80-Fold Mark-Up on Scarce Medicines Bank of America Website Woes Enter Sixth Day Costco Raises Membership Fees Friendly’s Files for Bankruptcy Yum! Brands Battles Chinese Inflation Elementary School Teacher Hangs Herself in Classroom Poll Shows Any Republican Would Beat Obama Labor Unions Join Wall Street Protests ”Anonymous” Pledges to Take Down NYSE Site Assad Threatens to Attack Tel Aviv Kepler Finds 3 New Planets Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 4, 2011 Stocks Under Bear Market Scare Greece Denied Financing Through November Greece Laying Off 30K, Facing General Strike Goldman Sees 40% Chance of Recession Bernanke Holds Congress’ Hand Fannie Mae Knew of Foreclosure Abuses, Says Gov’t Report Oil Prices Drop for 3rd Day on Economic Confidence Loss Factory Orders Drop Gold Holds $1650 an Ounce Euro Outlook: Breaking Up is Hard to Do Europe Bank Fears Rattle Markets The Changing Porn Market Raskin: Some Mortgage Terms are No Good The Subprime Continent Rare Earth Minerals Found in California New Apple iPhone Due Today Sprint Bets Big on iPhone Amazon Fire Gets 95K Orders on First Day Ford to Shift Factory Jobs to US from Asia, Mexico Obama Blasts Bank of America Fee AMR Continues Pilot Talks Amid Stock Rout No Easy Options for Dexia Occupy Wall Street Could Become Movement Scientists Hunting Yeti Chaz Bono Can’t Dance Amanda Knox Walks Out of Italy NASA Developing Asteroid Intercept Teams Rick Perry Losing Favor Yahoo! Earnings Calendar October 3, 2011 Greece to Miss Budget Targets Manufacturing Metric Holds Above Water – ISM at 51.6% in September Construction Spending Up 1.4% in August Protectionism Beckons as Leaders Push World into Depression Euro Hits Decade Low vs. Yen as Finance Ministers Meet Gold Rises on Safety Play Crude Oil Extends Decline Taxing Job Creators? Be Afraid – World’s Leaders Not Really Acting What’s Ahead for Emerging Markets Big Thinkers at Davos on Potomac EU Near Collateral Deal Money Market Strains Worsen Fed Purchases Spur Treasury Advance European Financials Slide on Greek Admission Here Comes Apple’s iPhone 5 GM’s US Sales Accelerate ABC News, Yahoo Form Online Alliance Kodak Shares Soar 35% on Bankruptcy Denial Private Equity Firm Buys PPD for $3.9 Billion IntriCon up 36% on Business Win Sangamo Biosciences Drops Sharply as CEO Talks Arrests Fail to Stop Occupy Wall Street Protests Protests Spreading Across America New Hole in Ozone Layer Panetta: Israel Increasingly Isolated Millions of Honeybees Dead in Florida Man Kills Himself in Front of Colleagues After Losing Job Russia Gave Agents License to Kill Enemies of State Overseas Yahoo! Earnings Calendar
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