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...dead-serious as it appears. Maybe the movie is a big deadpan joke, an antic-hrist. What's certain is that serious film people on several continents will be talking about von Trier's latest affront, defending or deriding it, finding it hard to ignore. Short of an flat-out masterpiece, what more can movies offer...
...drug maker; and $3.5 million in Sprint Nextel Corp.The increasing emphasis on emerging market equity has likely helped hedge against dramatic declines in the domestic stock market. While the S&P 500 fell 12 percent from Dec. 31 to March 31, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index has remained essentially flat over that period.The SEC’s Form 13F requires institutional investment managers that oversee more than $100 million in exchange-traded stocks and closed-end companies to report those holdings. Companies are “closed-end” if they sell a fixed number of shares that...
...Earlier this week, Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, said that it planned to improve its second quarter sales by offering shoppers irresistible bargains. For the last quarter, Wal-Mart reported flat earnings of $.77 and said it expected to deliver a range of $.83 to $.88 in the current period. Same-store sales for this quarter are expected to be between flat and up 3%. Wal-Mart may have an uphill fight to post strong second quarter earnings. Recent employment numbers and shrinking access to credit will hurt retail sales, although Wal-Mart probably has its share...
...slide in console sales is so extreme that it is a clear sign that sales of consumer electronics are in a flat spin. When people cannot spend $300 on a console or $50 on a game which can be used for hours and played over and over again, the money for discretionary spending has dried...
...worth pointing out that this difference was within the survey's margin of error. That is, the decline could just be noise. But other news in the report - and evidence from other sources - points to a consumer-spending trend that is at best flat. Retail sales excluding automobiles, a better indicator of the underlying trend, were down 0.5%. March's overall sales decline was revised down to 1.3% from 1.2%. And so on. (See the top 10 financial collapses...