Thomas Hawk submits:
Kodachrome. They give us those nice bright colors. They give us the greens of summers. Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day.
Well everyone has known for years that the move from film photography to digital photography would not be good for Kodak (EK). But after cutting about half their work [...]

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Rakesh Saxena submits:
Early Tuesday, news and rumours about an impending Bad Bank were causing key credit default swap indices to tighten to levels last seen in early November. Later in the day, however, Minnesota Congressman Collin Peterson began circulating draft legislation seeking to ban short positions on credit default swaps and to bring the entire [...]

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Jessica Johnson submits:
The Times newspaper in London quoted the credit ratings agency Experian [EXPN/LON] as being the company at the center of a row in the House of Lords over the past one to two weeks, bringing us to think about the short interest in ratings agencies during the current economic climate.
We can reveal that [...]

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Mark Krieger submits:
Amazon (AMZN) has rallied almost 50% from its 52 week lows, so expectations for the fourth quarter appear to be quite high. Management’s hype that they had the best Xmas season ever could backfire, because it could be setting them up for disappointment. The company would have been much better served by keeping [...]

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Trader Mark submits:
One group I’ve missed as I’ve railed against consumer discretionary are the cruise lines; one reader had mentioned it in comments late last week, so I started looking into it. An analyst is out today against Royal Caribbean (RCL) raising liquidity concerns - which is a kiss of death in this type of [...]

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