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...losers were largely retailers who a) did not have big electronics offerings, b) did not offer huge Black Friday discounts or c) are not worshipped by teens. Count among them J. Crew, Chico's and Banana Republic, which offered fewer discounts and saw traffic fall, says Goldman Sachs analyst Michelle Tan, in a note. Pacific Sunwear, Ann Taylor, Talbots and Gap stores were also weak, noted Credit Suisse analyst Paul Lejuez...
...central banks worldwide are creating potentially destabilizing increases in property and stock prices. "Asset bubbles could be the next fragility as the world recovers, threatening again to destroy livelihoods and trap millions more in poverty," World Bank President Robert Zoellick recently wrote in the Financial Times. Property-market analyst Nicole Wong at brokerage CLSA argues that Hong Kong may inevitably be heading for "another boom and bust" in its real estate sector, due to a combination of tight supply and easy money. "The answer to the question could there be a property bubble in Hong Kong is yes," she says...
Marshall Cohen, chief retail analyst at NPD Group, sees the Black Friday glass as half-full rather than half-empty. "The fact that retailers were able to sell as much, if not more, product at a 40% discount, compared with last year's 75% storewide discount, was positive," says Cohen...
...just a speed bump for a company that's growing dizzyingly fast or a huge infrastructural problem is unclear. Reports peg Zynga's revenue at $100 million a year, which the company says is low. If you assume similar economies for Zynga as for Playfish, says Atul Bagga, an analyst with Think Equity, "Zynga could be four times bigger on a run-rate basis...
...effort to quell dissent following June's disputed election, also included a reported assault on Ebadi's husband and other threats against close relatives. "In the past, there were red lines people believed the regime would never cross, but no red lines really exist anymore," says Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "What is to be gained from confiscating Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Prize or assaulting her husband? It's almost as if Iran is trying to parody a gratuitously cruel, dictatorial regime...