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30 Apr 2010 15:27

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Biz: Goldman Sachs under investigation? Let’s send your stock tumbling!

  • 9.5% stock freefall thanks to new legal troubles source

04 Nov 2009 10:51

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Biz: Time Warner’s third-quarter profits look scary and anemic

  • -38% decline in profits at Time Warner; the company’s been most hurt by publishing and online ad declines source

09 Jul 2009 11:01

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Biz: Hear that sound? It’s AIG’s stock falling further into oblivion

  • zero Citigroup’s analysis of the company’s possible equity value due to the mess they’ve gotten themselves in source

02 May 2009 10:48

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Biz, U.S.: Warren Buffett hasn’t seen the economic revcovery yet

  • There’s no signs of any real bounce at all in anything to do with housing, retailing, all that sort of thing. You never know for sure, even if there’s a leveling off, which way the next move will be.
  • Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett • On the housing market’s lack of improvement since the recession took hold. Berkshire Hathaway, by the way, has suffered pretty heavily, too in the wake of the economic meltdown. • source

19 Apr 2009 21:23

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Biz: The Fortune 500 is worth a lot less than they were before

  • 85% decline in the Fortune 500’s profits from 2007 to 2008 source

28 Feb 2009 16:30

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Biz: Warren Buffet’s company posted a massive profit decline

  • 96% 4Q dip in profits for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Jesus. source

27 Feb 2009 10:14

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Biz, U.S.: The GDP’s free, free-fallin’! Oh, free-fallin’ … free fallin’!

  • 6.2% decline in the GDP in 4Q of 2008. Oof. source
 

26 Feb 2009 10:14

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Biz, U.S.: Here’s some, um, rosy unemployment numbers

  • 667,000 first-time unemployment applications last week; that the highest it’s been since 1982 source

25 Feb 2009 22:12

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Biz: So, how much does the stock market suck right now?

  • -9.1% this month; should we form bread lines? :( source

24 Feb 2009 10:54

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U.S.: The market comes crashing down – hard – on houses

  • 18% tumbles in home prices during the fourth quarter of 2008 – the largest decline in the survey’s 21-year history source