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Specialty/Non-Apparel (InternetRetailer.com)
Mass merchants have customers with wide-ranging tastes looking for any number of products. Specialty retailers, however, are filling a niche. And in niche retailing, it's critical that merchants know their customers very well. Coalition for a Democratic Workplace Calls on Congress to Oppose Anti-Worker Employee Free Choice Act (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
The 500-member Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) today released a letter it delivered to Capitol Hill late yesterday. In the letter, CDW urged members of the Senate and House "to oppose all efforts to pass any provision included in the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA H.R. 800/S. 1041 in the 110th Congress)." When inflation comes a-knockin' (Asia Times)
Mike Shedlock of globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com writes that I - and people like me, who are expecting inflation - are a bunch of idiots, which is unfortunately true about me, and I am grateful that my Natural Mogambo Stupidity (NMS) is his only complaint about me. INDEX:Advisories@ (INO News)
BUSINESS EDITORS:@ Here are Canadian Press Business budget lines as of 3 p.m. ET. Plans may change as circumstances warrant. The Canadian Press Business News Budget, Monday, March 24, 2008@ (INO News)
BUSINESS EDITORS:@ Here are Canadian Press Business budget lines as of 1 p.m. ET. Plans may change as circumstances warrant. Queries should be addressed to business editor John Valorzi at 416-507-2146 or Gary Norris or Dave Paddon on the business desk at 416-507-2138. George Soros buys Research in Motion Ltd., Arch Coal Inc., Whiting Petroleum Corp., Global Signal Inc., Suncor Energy ... (Guru Focus)
George Soros is back to his fund. We can see it from the portfolio holdings of his fund. He owns fewer stocks now and he bets big into certain areas. George Soros owns 83 stocks with a total value of $2.8 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells. New Purchases: ACI, AMZN, BAC, BBY, BK, BUD, BWLD, CA, CDNS, CHK, CIEN, CSGS, DPS, ETR, FIS, FRO, GGP, GLRE, GMT, GSL, GSL/WS, HSNI, ITT, ... Ken Heebner Buys Wells Fargo & Company, Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., Sells Apple Inc., Anglo American plc, ... (Guru Focus)
Ken Heebner got into oil and basic materials in the second quarter. Quickly he found he was wrong, he got out of those and now he is all in financials. A good sign? Ken Heebner owns 86 stocks with a total value of $11.3 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells during the third quarter. Ken Heebner buys Wells Fargo & Company, Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., WalMart Stores Inc., ... Recession - the domino effect: Share YOUR story (Independent)
We could begin with Peter Sastawnyuk. The 53-year-old businessman filled his £370,000 detached home with petrol canisters, sealed the locks, set tripwires and threatened to set the place alight. More than 40 of his neighbours were evacuated from the posh cul-de-sac on the edge of the Pennines from which Sastawnyuk sent his children to be educated at private school. But the cradle of his dreams ... John Keeley Buys The Hanover Insurance Group Inc., Webster Financial Corp., The J.M. Smucker Company, Sells Xerox ... (Guru Focus)
John Keeley is a small cap investor. He likes to invest in special situations like spin-off or arbitrages. His funds were also hard hit also this year by the market crash. These are high buys and sells for the third quarter. John Keeley owns 365 stocks with a total value of $9 billion. John Keeley buys The Hanover Insurance Group Inc., Webster Financial Corp., INVESCO PLC, The J.M. Smucker ... Obama may turn out to be less red in the practice of his presidency than his words and aspirations would imply (BBC News)
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