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...normally say that you believe commodities are a better bet, but do you think now with asset prices pushed so far down that it's a good time to start looking for undervalued stocks...
...Microsoft (MSFT), the most shorted large tech company traded on any U.S. exchange, is a nearly ideal way to bet against software. It has dominant global market share in PC, server, and enterprise products used by large companies and governments. Microsoft is no longer considered a growth stock by Wall St., but it remains one of the most impressive corporate cash flow machines in the world. Microsoft's ongoing battle with Google (GOOG) over search and desktop software keeps it in the headlines regularly, and its quest to get control of Yahoo!'s (YHOO) search engine operation has gone...
...puppy, Bo spent his first days at the White House carrying grin-starved television anchors on his little back. He rounded up straying viewers for cable gabfests and herded readers to newsstands. A Virginia-based publisher is already rushing the first Bo book to print, and you can bet it won't be the last...
...suggestions on the table: A system of World War II - style convoys and escorts. An international moratorium on ransom payments. Some urge arming crews, although assuming that shippers can outgun young men fitted out with the best the Somali black market has to offer is a risky bet. The best solution is likely to be military, based on inspections, exclusion zones, rapid reaction and deadly force. That is how our partners are beginning to view it. French commandos retook a yacht on April 10, killing two pirates. (One passenger was killed.) Last November, the Indian navy sank a pirate "mother...
...table. The only way to take regulation off the table is with legislation that addresses greenhouse gases. And despite the characterization elsewhere, we are not looking to regulate wildly. I do think that you can regulate in a thoughtful fashion. But I would also be willing to bet that those regulations, when proposed, would be subject to all manner of lawsuits...