Archive for Июль, 2008

Jeremy Grantham: “I’m officially scared!”

This post is a guest contribution (really just a snippet) by Prieur du Plessis, writer of the Investment
Postcards from Cape Town blog.
The bearer of the bad tidings today is money manager Jeremy Grantham, chairman of GMO, who has just published the July edition of his quarterly newsletter entitled "Meltdown! The Global Competence Crisis".
In terms [...]

YR 2 NTU ACCOUNTANCY

Sch is starting in 4 days' time. Looking forward as it is a fresh year and everything starts from scratch.Materials have been uploaded on Edventure, kinda stressed me out a little but I am going to tackle it and overcome it. Am glad that I have bernadine, li xuan and sharon in the same [...]

On The Market: Storybook Home in Beachwood Canyon

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This house has popped back up on the MLS, after two previous price reductions. Sneaky broker, you thought we wouldn't notice. This four-bedroom, three and half-bath house was selling last December for $1.25 million after undergoing a $100,000 price drop. Newly relisted, the 1924 storybook house features [...]

Vero Forcefulness reports Q2 profit of $8.7 meg, up from year ago (Vero-Forcefulness)

metropolis _ Vero Energy Inc. (TSX:VRO) attained a second-quarter profit of $8.7 meg, up from $502,000 a assemblage ago, as production and revenue accumulated sharply, the company said Wednesday.The Metropolis-based energy producer said the acquire amounted to 26 cents per weakened share for the three months ended June 30 compared with a acquire of $502,000 [...]

Pete Sessions: Nevada’s Newest Congressman

Wick Allison over at D Magazine’s Frontburner blog has up a great post telling us exactly why Congressman Pete Sessions may be having those lovely Vegas strip club fund-raisers.
It’s to cash in on money from professional gamblers, who love Sneaky Pete’s stance on unlawful internet gambling:
For example, there’s self-described “professional poker player” Howard Lederer and [...]

Intel Sells 500,000 Classmates Made in Portugal to Portugal [Classmate Vs OLPC]

In its constant battle with the OLPC, Intel is selling half a million Classmate laptops to Portugal at maximum price of $78 each. An impressive deal... until they tell you they are going to make them in Portugal. I smell euro-politics everywhere here. Well played, Senhor Intel. [The Register]

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New Aprilia RSV 4 spy shots emerge

Don’t get too excited, what looks like headlights and a center-mounted air intake in these photos is actually a clever disguise taped onto the front fairing. The company wants to keep the final design for the production Aprilia RSV 4 a secret as long as possible. The shots, published in Italy’s Motociclismo magazine do, however, [...]

Oh, I’ll Give You Feedback.

I ordered a garter on eBay this past weekend. I'm well aware that I'm cutting it close on this. This is partially because for a long time, I thought someone was going to make the garter. Then, when that didn't pan out, someone else thought she'd be able to make it. That didn't work either. [...]

OH COME ON!

I think all of us were at least frustrated, even enraged when we woke up this morning and got our daily dose of the New York Times and read about another quarter of record profits for the oil companies. SURPRISE! While average Americans have been struggling to pay 3.95 and higher at the pump per [...]

Bristol-Myers Squibb Tenders an Offer to Buy ImClone

Bristol-Myers Squibb announced earlier today that its Board of Directors approved a deal to purchase ImClone for $4.5 billion. BMS already owns about 17% of ImClone’s shares and is ImClone’s US marketing partner for Erbitux, a monoclonal antibody treatment for colorectal and head and neck cancers. BMS bought Kosan Biosciences earlier this year for $195 [...]