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Carl Icahn's Long String Of Failures (YHOO, MOT)
Carl Icahn's Long String Of Failures (YHOO, MOT)
On Friday, Carl Icahn announced that he was stepping down from the Yahoo (YHOO) board 1.5-years after he first invested in the company in hopes of selling to Microsoft or somehow shaking it up. While he successfully won representation on its board, the whole thing was a big waste of time and ...
Yahoo! At 52-Week Highs (YHOO)
vsinvestor.com — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is trading up in the pre-market hours and reflecting some of the same... of what we saw in the after-hours trading last night. The stock closed at $17.17 and is up about 5% at $18.04 on 804,195 shares as of 8:41 AM EST. Last ... (more) Yahoo! At 52-Week Highs (YHOO)
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Monday links: transport weakness
Abnormal Returns — ... Are insider trading cases a big waste of time?  (Forbes, Clusterstock contra Jeff Matthews) A legal way to profit off insider trading.  (New Rules of Investing) Estimating the equity risk premium is no easy task.  (CXO Advisory Group) Carl Icahn is on a bit of cold streak.  (Silicon Alley Insider) James Surowiecki, “The ...

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FT Alphaville — ... those who ignore asset bubbles “. - What the coming dollar squeeze might do to stocks . - Insiders vs outsiders: why Raj Rajaratnam is no Martha Stewart . - ING makes the best of a very bad crisis. - China as scapegoat, again . - Econonometric methodology for human mating . - Economics and moral courage . - Europe’s high-yield markets : I’ve seen this movie before. - Food will never be so cheap again. - Icahn maybe can’t . - The end of the newspaper business . - Professional money management and ...

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