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...question to ask your broker these days is not which stock to buy, but how much it will cost to make the trade. Across America discount brokers are slashing commissions in an all-out fight to grab new customers...
Those with healthy balance sheets, however, see a silver lining. Basil Stephanis, president of Selonda, a $167 million aquaculture company with fish farms in Greece, Turkey and Wales, says Greece's woes are "an opportunity to consolidate and buy up companies with liquidity problems." Constantine Petropoulos, chairman of Petros Petropoulos, a $158 million firm that sells cars, automotive supplies and industrial equipment, also plans to beef up his portfolio. "We will acquire businesses that we wouldn't have ever been able to consider in better times," he says...
...segments of the health care market. AmerisourceBergen's revenue in the sector topped $16 billion last fiscal year. "If Cardinal is going to play, they have to move now," says Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Helene Wolk, who is bearish on Cardinal. "And they're going to have to buy, not build, to get to scale as quickly as possible...
...also announced an iBook store where publishers could set their own prices for e-books. Publisher Macmillan responded by demanding that online retailer Amazon sell Macmillan e-books for as much as $14.99, up from $9.99. Amazon did not agree with that idea. The website removed "buy" buttons from e-texts published by Macmillan, angering authors and customers. Some prospective buyers, however, sided with Amazon, vowing that they would not pay more for Macmillan e-books. The freeze began to thaw Jan. 31, when Amazon started selling certain Macmillan titles at the higher price. As of Feb. 3, though, some...
...sales for an album by someone who can't sing, it is nevertheless a dangerous sign for our economy. You can chart GDP or housing starts, but I can't, so the way I know we are in deep trouble is when celebrities can't persuade us to buy their crap. In the America I grew up in, we order perfume by the quart just because it's made by Ernest Borgnine's fifth wife. We are almost as eager to buy stuff from celebrities as Borgnine is to get married...