I’m so glad we won’t have to be subject to these ever-changing headlines anymore
11:05 Edwards advises Kerry not to concede yet — AP
11:06 Kerry calls Bush to concede White House race, according to A.P. - Dow Jones
11:16 John Kerry to concede at 1:30 PM ET - CNBC
I was beginning to have [...]
I wonder if it’s possible to get negative ratings.
Patience is the watchword at CNBC, despite low ratings for the cable channel’s fledgling primetime lineup, especially tennis star-turned-talker John McEnroe, whose show has twice registered a 0.0 rating.
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CNBC executives said it’s not necessarily about the ratings, particularly with “McEnroe.” They’re trying to win the whole [...]
Looks like it won’t have much of an effect from an operational standpoint - Wall St. Misses Blackout; Some Companies Shut Down:
For the nation’s stock markets, the disruption could have come at a much worse time. It happened just minutes after the end of a slow summer trading day, leaving traders and the exchanges more [...]
Here’s a good read - A Merrill Lynch Whiz Kid, and Then a Suspect
BusinessWeek has a good article in which two economists debate the impact overseas job outsourcing on the U.S. job market.
This is interesting — Pentagon Prepares a Futures Market on Terror Attacks:
The Pentagon office that proposed spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has a new experiment. It is an online futures trading market, disclosed today by critics, in which anonymous speculators would bet on forecasting terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups.
Traders bullish on a [...]
Rough day for President Bush yesterday, as he falls off of a self-balancing Segway scooter.
(Click the picture for a better view.)
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen worse basketball than whats going on in the NBA finals this year. These teams are barely averaging 20 points per quarter. At one point in the game, the Nets missed 13 straight shots on their way to an 11-point third quarter. And the Spurs… they [...]
I’ve finally caught up with my (short) stack of Fortune magazines. Here are some articles that I think are worth a read, as well as some non-Fortune material. (Note to self - stop subscribing to magazines that give away their content online!)
Taxpayer, Beware! - Washington will soon be taking back a good chunk [...]
A slight dip in today’s rally due to this article in the Washington Times - Al Qaeda warns of threat to water supply
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