Barron’s ran with Monday’s "Five for ’05" Having spent the weekend reading a lot of other people’s...
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Okay, here’s something kinda amusing: Punch the following phrases into Google, and The Big Picture is the top hit: • NASD Margin...
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Each year, fund manager Doug Kass steals (Morgan Stanley’s) Byron Wien’s list of unlikely events — 25 possible...
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Asset allocators will be sorely tested in the coming year, says a skilled practitioner of the art: Duck and cover. That about sums up...
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The S&P 500, even with the recent more aggressive selling, has not scored any structural breakdowns in trend. This suggests the...
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The 2004 numbers are now out for CD sales in the U.S., and they are rather interesting: U.S. CD sales rose by 2.3% in 2004; It was the...
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I keep getting asked what I expect the number to be tomorrow; Quite frankly, I haven’t the slightest idea what it will be —...
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The year end numbers are now out for both Film and Music sales in the US, and they are rather interesting. Each data point contains both...
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Rob Fraim‘s contributions to these pages are always welcome. Today’s comments are so amusing I felt they deserved a wider...
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Grey Album named Record of the Year Whether you like the idea of Mash ups (See also the Beastles, as well as Hip Hopera) or not, this is...
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