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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Barack Obama Stock Index versus John McCain Stock Index versus Dow Jones Industrial Average	If you look at the companies that major contributors to the presidential candidates are connected with, stock indexes can be created for each candidate. Forbes Magazine came out with a great list of the members of the Forbes 400 that have contributed to presidential campaigns. The following spells out the stocks of each candidate, and who the contributor is. The contributors are either major shareholders or they run or have run these companies. The above graph shows the Barack Obama Stock Index ...	October 03, 2008
Do We Really Want Microsoft to Take Over Yahoo	The above is a spoof of what the Yahoo home page might look like if Microsoft took over Yahoo. Can you see where to log into Yahoo mail? Can you see where to do a web search?It may sound heresy to say this, especially since I own Yahoo (YHOO) at a loss, but maybe it is just as well that the company didn't get taken over by Microsoft (MSFT), which I also own. Have you looked at the Vista operating system? No wonder so many companies are unwilling to upgrade. Or even Office 2007. Have you upgraded...	September 22, 2008
Nicole Kidman Stock Index	Nicole Kidman is the most overpaid actress in Hollywood, according to a recent report by Forbes Magazine.Components of the Nicole Kidman Stock Index: News Corp. (NWS-A) which owns 20th Century Fox, distributor of the movies Australia and Moulon Rouge! in which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Appeared in commercials for SKY Italia is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation. Time Warner (TWX) Warner Brother's which distributed Margot at ...	September 17, 2008
Biodel Shares Implode (BIOD)	Biodel Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOD) is getting murdered today. It might as well be called Bio-Hell. Shares are down over 65% at $5.60 on more than 1 million shares after teh open. On average days it trades under 200,000 shares. The company said its VIAject met primary endpoints in hypoglycemic events and weight gain in pivotal Phase III studies. But results in India were not comparable to US and Germany. Options are apparently not available here. 9:35 AM EST JON OGG September 8, 2008...	September 08, 2008
Ben Stiller finally bests Batman	Filed under: Time Warner (TWX), Viacom (VIA), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), News Corp'B' (NWS), Film, Marvel Entertainment (MVL)Has Viacom's (NYSE: VIA) Tropic Thunder succeeded where the Joker has failed? Has the film beaten Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) The Dark Knight? According to early estimates at Boxofficemojo, it has. Can you believe it? Tropic Thunder, which stars Ben Stiller, right now has $26 million to its credit, enough to capture the top spot. That number will change most likely when final tall...	August 18, 2008
Supermodels Outperform the Dow	Three top celebrities, Gisele Bündchen, Heidi Klum, and Angelina Jolie, all of which had celebrity stock indexes created by Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com and implemented a Stockpickr.com, have had their indexes updated and compared to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The one thing that these three women have in common, other than the fact that they are wealthy, successful celebrities [two supermodels and one movie star who was also a model], is that all three of their indexes have outperformed ...	August 18, 2008
Lions Gate claws past expectations, but that doesn't mean its stock is a buy	Filed under: Earnings reports, Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA)Lions Gate Entertainment's (NYSE: LGF) stock rose nearly 5% in after-hours trading on Friday after the movie studio issued its Q1 report. In fact, the stock hit $11 per share. What drove this reaction? Well, Wall Street was figuring on a loss for the company, somewhere around $0.05 per share, according to the AP. However, management fooled everyone by delivering a $0.06 per-share profit. Las...	August 10, 2008
Warner Music Group rocks the analysts, but is it a buy?	Filed under: Earnings reports, Viacom (VIA), Activision Inc (ATVI)Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) reported third-quarter earnings numbers on Thursday (for more earnings news, see here). Revenues increased a scant 5% to $848 million. The bottom line saw a net loss of 6 cents per share. According to Earnings.com, analysts were expecting a loss of 18 cents per share. So, expectations were soundly beat. But should investors be completely enamored of the performance? There were some interesting growt...	August 08, 2008
Does Sumner Redstone care about Midway Games?	Filed under: Earnings reports, Viacom (VIA), CBS Corp 'B' (CBS), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Activision Inc (ATVI)You honestly have to wonder what Sumner Redstone, the chairman of both Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and CBS (NYSE: CBS), thinks about Midway Games (NYSE: MWY). The guy has a huge investment in the struggling software publisher. He owns something like 87% of the company's shares. He controls Midway. I mean, does he look at the performance of this business? Does it make him angry? Confused? Anyw...	August 07, 2008
News Corp. (NWS) may not be a buy right now	Filed under: Earnings reports, General Electric (GE), Time Warner (TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), CBS Corp 'B' (CBS), News Corp'B' (NWS)News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), a competitor of media entities such as Disney (NYSE: DIS), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Viacom (NYSE: VIA) CBS (NYSE: CBS), and General Electric's (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal, reported its Q4 and full-year numbers on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the stock received an after-hours yawn from investors. The share price didn't move much at all, ab...	August 06, 2008

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