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...doubt, at first Miller was overwhelmed, and it seemed like the enormous media frenzy over his performance had gotten to him. It will also be difficult to learn the intricacies of the game. There is a fine line between Cosell, who was annoying because he was a brilliant analyst with an opinion, and NBC basketball analyst Bill Walton, who is annoying because he is an idiot...
...catapult the new company, to be known as J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., into an elite group of American mega-banks in competition with rivals in Europe as well as Japan. "The U.S. has the world's largest capital markets, and dollars are used everywhere," explains Ron Mandle, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "This deal helps consolidate America's role at the epicenter of global finance...
...other end of the spectrum stands Bezos' bete noir, Ravi Suria, a debt analyst at Lehman Bros. in New York City. Suria shot to fame in June with a report that blew the stock to pieces. For the first time, a Wall Street institution proclaimed that Amazon would eventually run out of cash "unless it manages to pull another financing rabbit out of its rather magical hat." The day of reckoning will come in the first quarter of next year, when sales are slower and Amazon goes cap in hand for more cash, as it has in the past...
Suria's e-mail, however, was a mite more skeptical than Bezos makes out--definitely no "Wow"--and the analyst is just as bitingly critical of Amazon as before. "Nothing's changed," says Suria. "We still expect cash to be a problem in the first quarter. We still expect the party to be over...
...million left in the bank. Its cash flow is at negative $400 million for the year--ugly, but Amazon doesn't expect to bleed much more. Its annual debt service is $150 million. No wonder the company is quietly shifting gears in the drive toward profitability. Eagle-eyed analysts have seen a slow, steady price rise on high-profit stuff like electronics. And the enormous premium that Greenlight.com is paying for placement on the site could be a sign of things to come, says Mike May, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications. "Increasingly, retailing is a Trojan horse for high-margin...