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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Deals of the Day: Exxon Bets Big on Natural Gas With XTO Energy Deal	Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal’s homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see real-time updates of our posts and our favorite deal-related articles on other Web sites through our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal. Mergers & Acquisitions Exxon agreed to pay $31 billion in stock to buy XTO Energy, boosting the oil giant’s presence in the...	December 14, 2009
Deals of the Day: One Time Only — Tax on City Bonuses	Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal’s homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see real-time updates of our posts and our favorite deal-related articles on other Web sites through our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal. Mergers & Acquisitions Brand name deals: A wave of consumer-products companies are hitting the auction block amid a squeeze in sp...	December 09, 2009
Local.com Ups Guidance Yet Again	Local.com (LOCM), a leading local search company, upped guidance yesterday from a 2% sequential gain to an 8% sequential gain. Revenue is expected to be in the range of $16.4M and adjusted earnings in the $.10 to .12 range. All from a stock just trading above $5 before the announcement.The earnings run rate is now on a $.40+ level with expectations for at least 24% revenue growth next year. Analyst still report earnings on a GAAP basis which is bizarre for a small tech company. Since the average...	December 09, 2009
Evening Reading: Let’s Discuss Financial Reform	Ten financial reforms: One could hardly be blamed for thinking regulatory reform of the financial system is as good as dead. As the economy recovers and the financial crisis recedes into the rearview mirror, momentum in Congress to fix the system is likely to slow. Well, the Epicurean Dealmaker has launched a blog called The New Decembrists. The point of the blog is to discuss financial regulation and reform. The Epicurean Dealmaker kicks it off by offering up a list of 10 reforms that should be...	December 08, 2009
Evening Reading: Let’s Discuss Financial Reform	Ten financial reforms: One could hardly be blamed for thinking regulatory reform of the financial system is as good as dead. As the economy recovers and the financial crisis recedes into the rearview mirror, momentum in Congress to fix the system is likely to slow. Well, the Epicurean Dealmaker has launched a blog called The New Decembrists. The point of the blog is to discuss financial regulation and reform. The Epicurean Dealmaker kicks it off by offering up a list of 10 reforms that should be...	December 08, 2009
Coffee May Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk	There have been many reported health benefits of coffee, such as protection against certain types of colon cancer, as well as rectal and liver cancer. Now Harvard Medical School has released a study showing that coffee may reduce the risk of aggressive tumors by as much as 60%. Check out the aroma of these stocks.Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. (CBOU), is a Minnesota company operating gourmet coffeehouses throughout the United States. The company has a forward PE of 20. It has a relatively low mark...	December 08, 2009
Credit Cards May Bail Out the Holiday Season	Credit cards have been the source of the seed capital for many businesses that started off small and have since become extremely successful. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google (GOOG) supposedly started the company with credit card advances. Hedge fund manager Bruce Kovner and director, producer, writer, and actor Spike Lee also got their start with the help of credit cards, according to Wikipedia. A variety of credit cards are now available and ubiquitous. And I don't just mean diffe...	December 06, 2009
5 Food Stocks: Dividends and Growth Make a Tasty Combination	People gotta eat. One thing that we all have in common is that we wake up hungry every day. Therefore, companies in the food business tend to be very stable and rather consistent long-term growers. Most pay dividends that grow with their earnings; some even grow earnings and dividends at above-average rates. The stock market, on the other hand, is not always consistent, or for that matter, rational. Even though they possess the attributes mentioned above, below we report on five blue chip food r...	December 03, 2009
Evening Reading: Bank Capitalization — It’s in the Eye of the Beholder	It’s in the eye of the beholder: There are well-capitalized banks. There are problem banks. And there are some that are both, writes David Reilly over at Bloomberg. Last week the FDIC said 96% of banks were well-capitalized as of Sept. 30, it also said about 7% were on its problem list. How does that work? Simply put: The adequacy of bank capital is still in the eye of the beholder. Short staffed? Main Street isn’t only place laying off employees. PE firms also cut back on junior sta...	December 02, 2009
Deals of the Day: To Break up BofA or Not?	Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal’s homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see real-time updates of our posts and our favorite deal-related articles on other Web sites through our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal. Mergers & Acquisitions Campaigning Against Kraft: A great-great granddaughter of Cadbury’s founder, is trying to rally oppo...	December 02, 2009