What Happens In Vegas...
quantifiableedges.blogspot.com 10/21/2009 — The International Traders Expo takes place at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on November 18-21, 2009. I’m pleased to announce I’ll be speaking on Thursday, November 19th at 1:15pm. The topic of my presentation will be “ Quantifiable Edges for Swing Trading ”. I’ll be discussing some of my favorite ...

Target's Black Friday prices are leaked
pheedcontent.com 13 days ago — Black Friday, as the day after Thanksgiving has come to be known, is the day when most retailers get themselves back into the black. It is also a bargain-hunter's delight. In the age of Internet, several websites emerged dedicated to helping shoppers decide in front of which store to pitch ...

Black Friday Becomes Black November
blogs.wsj.com 15 days ago — Black Friday has gone from a one-day event to a month-long parade of promotions this year, as retailers are making a dash for early holiday cash. Strategies include high profile discounting efforts by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that have stirred online ...

Las Vegas Home Sales Report
dqnews.com 8/26/2009 — Las Vegas July Home Sales Las Vegas home sales rose above a year ago for the 11th consecutive month in July as investors and first-time buyers – including many making “cash” deals – continued to target lower-cost, post-foreclosure properties. The ...

Bad NFL teams turn sports books into losers
sports.yahoo.com 29 days ago — With head shakes and hushed tones, they’re calling Sunday the worst day in memory at Las Vegas sports books. NFL blowout after blowout caused the house to take a bath up and down the famed strip. Estimates have NFL gamblers across the city walking ...

Its official, there will be no Black Friday or Christmas bonanza.
dtod.wordpress.com 18 days ago — The statistics are in, the large retail chains are reducing inventories by as much as 20% from their typical high level during the Christmas quarter. Of course this automatically means they will sell approximately 10-15% less then last year, as they have predetermined what they can possibly ...

The Man Who Shook Up Vegas
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Black holes and financial crises
VoxEU.org 10/3/2009 — Marcus Miller , 3 October 2009 A bursting economy-wide asset bubble could be the economic equivalent of a collapsing supernova – the “black hole” of mass insolvency threatening to swallow whole sectors of an over-leveraged economy. This column ...

Weekend Reading: Gold, Vegas, Sex, and Commercial Real Estate
paul.kedrosky.com 17 days ago — A few links from my weekly Weekend Reading column: Inside the Global Frenzy for Gold ( NYT ) Las Vegas construction nears standstill ( Las Vegas Sun ) The Technology Behind the Madoff Scam ( IDD ) Bank of England says financiers are ...

Revisiting the Black List
likelihoodofconfusion.com 10/1/2009 — David Bernstein writes: [Northwestern Law Prof Martin] Redish concludes, and this Reviewer agrees, it was entirely appropriate – under the First Amendment, and also morally – for businesses and individuals to boycott members of the Stalinist CPUSA. (SKIP PARAGRAPH IF YOU DON’T ...

Unisys Completes 1-for-10 Reverse Split — BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily 10/26/2009
Unisys (UIS) today completed a 1-for-10 reverse stock split. The company is now down to 42.3 million shares, from 423 million. The company, once a major hardware player and now mostly an IT services provider, closed Friday at $2.62; today is ...

Will Barry Diller Unload Ask.com? — BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily 29 days ago
Looking for a new employer? Anyone want to buy a search engine? On a conference call with analysts yesterday, IAC/Interactive (IACI) CEO Barry Diller indicated that the company might be willing to sell search engine Ask.com, ...

Will Microsoft Buy Ask.com? — BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily 28 days ago
Is Microsoft (MSFT) going to bite at Barry Diller ’s offer to sell Ask.com ? As noted earlier this week , the IAC/Interactive (IACI) chief contends their is consolidation coming in search, and that his company is more likely a seller ...

America's struggling newspapers: Big is best — The Economist: Full print edition 28 days ago
Most national papers in America are faring better than metropolitan ones THE slope down which America’s metropolitan newspapers are tumbling became steeper this week. On October 26th the Audit Bureau of Circulations revealed that the Los ...

Bagehot: Cameron's ransom — The Economist: Full print edition 28 days ago
What the row about the Conservatives' European allies reveals about their party THE lands between the Baltic and Black seas endured a 20th century of almost unimaginable horror: it brought war, genocide, famine, invasion, occupation, fascism, ...