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IT’S MONDAY! Jobs report and superb results put a positive spin on mixed Economic data (US Economy – May 06-10, 2013)

The deflation risks in a negative reported inflation or falling retail sales and even jobs and hours worked seemed to be forgotten for the week on Friday after the headine numbers of the Jobs report pushed the Dow to 15k

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IT’S MONDAY: European banks follow up with more losses, Fed and European Central Bank decisions (The week ahead April 29-May 3)

Markets headed down, last weeks result impact Dow near 14.5K and its quite ready for a rocky road down the mountain, though it’s still not “Sell in May and go away” especially with Apple already ruling below 400 before the

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Ally selling international Ops in Canada, Europe and Latin America! | Deal Insight

Ally’s domestic ops are those really adding to the woes of the car loan specialist earlier known as GMAC and sold to Cerberus and AmTrust in 2010 by GM. The firm has a portfolio of bundled mortgage securities in the

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, CRR, Private Equity, Retail Lifestyle, US

US Economy: The Auto sales are riding Superbowl campaigns, Shoppers gun for favorite stores..

Of course most of us may not call them campaigns yet, but the effort in producing a $5 mln ad time spend that cost another $5 mln to make is effectively good for campaign like impact and thus measurement. Post

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Monthly Auto Sales Preview: The February Auto Sales Bump

Auto sales are likely up 27% in February to a SAAR of 14 mln ( less than 900k in February) even as oOil is headed up to $5 even $6 in the next three months. Chrysler and Volkswagen are expected

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Ally Financial bothered with rebranding as GM? | Deal insight

The GMAC ‘outlet’ Ally Financial that has just stopped selling GMAC loands in Massachussets, is only 73.8% owned by the Treasury but for just $17 bln of the bailout money and between AIG and Ally, there could be some choice

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How Chrysler and GM made America come back for seconds

The Superbowl story and the connect the two ads made for Sergio Marchionne and Chrysler and the new General Motors is apparently a trick many ad men have forgotten in the rush to spend $1 mln on production of the

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2011 US Auto Sales Report (Final – December 2011) – A clean sweep for the home boys

December sales, satisfied all the curiosity around them with the Ford Escape scoring 25,000 plus units and almost beaating the Altima and the Camry in sheer numbers for the month. Of course pick up trucks remained America’s favorite from the

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US Auto: December Auto Sales for the nation

December Auto Sales While America bought 4000 less Large Cars from 2010 November last month to only 2,004 cars  (WSJ Market Data) it has been growing Mid size and Small SUV categories while keeping the faith in Pick ups and

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Facebook’s 500 shareholders | Advantage Dealbook

Are you one of the eager ones wanting to trade Facebook after the IPO? You can do so right now as long as the company does not file for one on Sharespost and Secondmarket among others. Goldman Sachs brokered the

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