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Intel did two things the market dislikes. The first is that it said very little about how the company expected to be doing over the next two or three quarters. The firm would only indicate that revenue for the current quarter would be about flat with the last one. Intel also did not offer any evidence that the PC industry is beginning to do better or if companies were just ordering a few more chips to fill falling inventory. Intel's results are good news for the broader tech sector if PC companies are actually buying more chips because their...
...Indeed, trading has always been a big portion of Goldman's business. But it has become even more so. The firm generated nearly half of its revenue, or $5.7 million, from trading in the first three months of this year. That's up from about 35% on average over the past four years. It has yet to be seen whether other firms have upped their trading bets as well. Goldman was the first of the major financial firms to report earnings in the first quarter. Citigroup and J.P. Morgan have said that they, like Goldman, made money in the first...
...firm wants to speculate on interest rates that's fine. There is nothing that prevents them from using TARP that way," says Dean Baker, who is the co-founder of the Washington, D.C. liberal-leaning think tank the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "But I am not sure that helps the economy, and if they were to get that wrong the firm and taxpayers would be much worse...
...sunspots in the past. “A strong correlation between the amount of radioactive carbon and temperature from ice cores has shown that solar activity can affect temperature,” Farrell said. He cautioned that the link was “a hypothesis...[that] does not have firm scientific grounding.” But Soon said that there have been much greater temperature fluctuations due to sunspots in the past and that proponents of global warming need to consider the effects of sunspot activity on global temperatures...
...Kevin Gibson, managing director of headhunting firm Robert Walters Japan, says he, too, is witnessing a flight to risk-free industries. "We see a gravitation away from banking and, oddly enough, manufacturing is perceived as insecure now," Gibson says. Robert Walters is placing a large number of executive and management talent into health care and the pharmaceutical industry. "It's getting fantastic people from I.T. and banking - people that [those industries] wouldn't normally be able to employ." But Gibson says the brain drain from old-guard companies may not last. "Media spent so much time beating up on these...