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The Retail Lifestyle Champions: Amazon learns from quick acquisition, posts net loss

Living Social an acquisition of 2010 was $170 mln of the $274 Mln loss Amazon noted int he September quarter as its shares tanked 5% on results after Apple also warned of its Holiday season conquests in the marketplace in

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The Retail Lifestyle Champions: Apple manages to disapppoint with $36 B topline

Most companies with a $28B topline have had a hard enough time trying to make the same $28B next year. All of them would technically qualify as Apple’s competition till yesterday. Apple, however managed to grow toplines a tad above

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Global Mid-Day Report: Oil stocks thumb down any more “recovery talk”

Retail Gasoline stocks shot up by 4.5 M barrels in the week after having given hope with customers starting drawing down on gas money and inventories flowing to the pump for three months on the trot. Crude Oil inventories on

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US Morning Report: PMI at the lower end of the consensus range, really we need the Economic data?

The House price Index starts the boot on the housing recovery that has lasted a minor 20% uptick at the bottom of the cycle(Its a much repeated chart and there is another 50% in most urban indices to catch up

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US Economy: This week was a loser! Jobs Report, Apple’s $1 Tln, Bank of America and the Housing recovery

The bearish ISM services PMI (The ISM Nonmanufacturing indices) also had a strong almost 90% correlation with the BLS report historically and  was pointing down. On the plus side Bank of America almost wants its downgrade yesterday as it will

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The Deal Economy (Midweek brush) : Oaktree IPO priced, yelp’s yellow reviews don’t help, I am not iPad

I am not an iPad? Drug maker and soon to be Genomics major Roche brought in a new watermark mid week to compare laboratory experiments and start ups to on ground performing ventures. In a letter to target Illumina management

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Is the Apple phenomenon finally shorn of ‘innovation confetti’ | Retail Insight

Apple, the world’s most applauded innovator survived on a culture of innovation that suggested any Dividen payouts would be an inefficient use of cash till the hoard hit $100 bln and the founder Steve Jobs left unfortunately in October 2011.

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The Retail NASDAQ Champions! Apple ticks up to $600 (updated after launch in London, Singapore)

New targets by brokerages returned scores  up $100 at JP Morgan and even $960 by end 2013 yesterday. At $530 Apple hit the halfway rest to a climb for $1Tln market Cap already 30% of the NASDAQ 100 index. This

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The Retail Lifestyle Champions: Amazon gets one back on the digital resolutionaries

The $829 64 GB new retinal resolution iPad (2k X 1.5k resolution) may be a gamechange but the Kindle strategy got one back when DOJ announced earlier that Apple would likely be actioned for having manipulated prices in e books

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Hits & Misses – A hollerback from December 2011 | Trend Insight

Here’s what banking news round up had for you in December 2011, for a just sanity check this weekend as they will haunt you in 2012, even as Markets have turned direction decisively. Apple price targets upped to $510 by

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