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  • Progenics: Investors Are Right To Be Wary [View article]
    Interesting article.

    Of course, the real loser here is Wyeth: Progenix still exists; Wyeth, well....
    Oct 14 23:53 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Which Diabetes Drugs Will Win Out? [View article]
    Nothing wrong with "me-too" products; it's a big market, and sometimes particular drugs work better for particular persons.
    Apr 02 11:02 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Hard Times Hit Biotech [View article]
    Countries that are willing to taint baby formula and ignore intellectual property law don't pass MY "sniff test", but I'm not an ex-"fast food" executive Big Pharma CEO.
    Oct 02 09:31 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    "The Bush administation will have a legacy of turning back nuclear proliferation in Libya, with AQ Khan,"

    Where's Khan now? Wasn't he on house arrest and then inexplicably released instead of executed?
    Jul 02 12:49 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    "Sources say Microsoft (MSFT) has talked with both Time Warner (TWX) and News Corp. (NWS) about joining it in a deal that would see Microsoft buy Yahoo's (YHOO) search business, while one of them would combine forces with what remained of Yahoo."

    This works for me, as a Yahoo CUSTOMER. Yahoo search-- who cares? I DID care about MSFT acquiring Yahoo Mail and Flickr, because those services would certainly suffer under the direction of Ballmer and his nitwits (witness how MSFT destroyed HoTMaiL).

    "But lawyers said that the kind of legal requests being issued by the Justice Department in this case - "civil investigative demands" - are not routine."

    It will be routine; there are no credible antitrust issues here. MSFT bribed a few buddies in Washington, no doubt, to raise a ruckus, the the current, corrupt administration gets its walking papers on 1/20/09.

    "Massive downsizing at Starbucks." What took so long? Downscale Dunkin Donuts makes better coffee, at half the price. Starbucks has always brewed way too dark.

    "Blockbuster (BBI) officially withdrew its offer to buy Circuit City Stores (CC)" Tying to "loser" companies together is rarely a recipe for success. Time Warner/AOL. MSFT/Yahoo, had it gone through.

    "Ford said June sales were limited due to tight supplies of small cars."
    Gee, they could have planned for this, say, 15 years ago when I took my first trip to Europe and was amazed by all the really cool FUEL EFFICIENT cars you could buy. In the States, you had little choice then but monstrous SUV's. I had a Corolla then-- and excellent car-- but not as efficient as many of the models I saw in Europe.

    "Senior Pentagon officials say there is an increasing likelihood Israel will attack Iran,". Perhaps you differ in this, Eli, but I'd rather have you guys do it than us.
    Jul 02 09:13 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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