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29 Apr 2010 09:45

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Biz: Exxon Mobil’s huge profits somehow not good enough

  • $6.3
    billion     the size of Exxon Mobil’s
    quarterly profits, helped by rising
    oil prices of late
  • 38%
     increase     from last year’s levels –
    an increase which missed Wall Street’s hefty estimates source
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27 Apr 2010 10:45

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Biz: Ford kicking butt, taking names, selling Tauruses this quarter

  • $2.1B the size of Ford’s profit
    in the current quarter; that makes a whole year of profit for them
  • 2005 the last time the bailout-free company
    had four straight quarters of big profits
  • 96% the increase in sales the company’s revamped Ford Taurus has seen this quarter source
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20 Apr 2010 23:21

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Tech: iPhones selling like smudged-up hotcakes for Apple

  • 8.75
    million     the number of iPhones (including one prototype) that sold last quarter
  • 133%
    boost     the year-over-year increase from
    last year source
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15 Apr 2010 10:40

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Biz: Fortune 500: Huge profits go hand-in-hand with record layoffs

  • $391
    billion     size of the collective profits the Fortune 500 had last year
  • 821,000
    positions     number of jobs they had to cut to ensure that huge profit source
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13 Apr 2010 11:17

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U.S.: Rich folks in Texas, Virginia got a little lovin’ from Obama’s tax cuts

  • $1,595 amount the richest
    1 percent of Virginians got refunded from Obama’s tax cuts in 2009
  • $1,534 amount the richest
    1 percent in Texas got due to the economic stimulus plan
  • $1,158 amount the richest
    1 percent got on average across the country
    (that’s rich) source
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07 Apr 2010 11:05

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U.S.: Debt-ridden California owes a lot of money in pensions

  • $500
    billion     amount the state owes in
    pensions, according to a Stanford
    University study
  • 2,000%
    increase     the amount California’s
    pension burden increased between 1999 and 2009 source
  • » Why is this bad for California? David Crane of the L.A. Times notes that this pension burden is what’s really holding the state back. Because they have this huge albatross on their back, they’re forced to cut other, arguably more important things, like education.
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01 Apr 2010 23:05

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Biz: Toyota’s way of dealing with heavy recalls? Big incentives!

  • 24% increase in total U.S. auto sales in March, led by Toyota’s rebound
  • 41% increase in Toyota’s sales after two months of recall-hurt sales
  • 8% decrease in Chrysler’s dismal sales from a year earlier source
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30 Mar 2010 09:55

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Biz: Verizon really hoping this Apple iPhone thang is true

  • 4.7% stock leap on hopes and dreams alone source
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23 Mar 2010 11:11

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Offbeat: Paintings of the Last Supper getting hungrier over time

  • 50 paintings of the Biblical Last Supper analyzed by Cornell University for some reason
  • 23%-69% increase in size of the Last
    Supper’s serving sizes, because,
    really, why not? source
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24 Feb 2010 10:10

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World: The Hamas assassination investigation casts a much-wider net

  • 11+15=26 suspects now source
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