Rocky Mountain News: Exxon Mobil overtakes Wal-Mart to top Fortune 500 April 20, 2009
Posted by assetbubbles in Asset Bubbles.Tags: Exxon Mobil, Fortune 500, Price Bubble, Shrugging, Unseated, Wal-Mart Stores
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Here is today’s story from Rocky Mountain News on Wal-Mart Stores.
Exxon Mobil Corp. unseated Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the 2009 Fortune 500 list, shrugging off the oil price bubble and weathering what the magazine called the worst year ever for the country’s largest publicly traded companies.
Kansas City Star: Developer selection secures jobs at Honeywell April 7, 2009
Posted by assetbubbles in Asset Bubbles.Tags: General Services Administration, Jobs, Kansas City, Oak Brook, Plant, Zimmer Real Estate
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Here is today’s story from Kansas City Star.
developer has been chosen for the new Honeywell weapons plant in south Kansas City, capping a lengthy struggle to keep its 2,100 well-paid jobs in the area.A venture between Zimmer Real Estate Services of Kansas City and CenterPoint of Oak Brook, Ill., will develop the $500 million project, the federal General Services Administration is announcing today.Work sho…
Interesting Asset Bubbles News Links (April 06, 2009) April 6, 2009
Posted by assetbubbles in Asset Bubbles.Tags: Banks, Investors, IPO, Ipos, Leaked, Settlement, Whod
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* Long-Running IPO Litigation Reaches $586M Conclusion (Ashby Jones, Wall Street Journal)
Frankly, wed sort of forgotten about the IPO litigation; the last time it crossed our radar screen was back in October , when word leaked of a possible settlement between a handful of banks and investors whod bet big and largely lost on several big technology IPOs about a decade ago.
Kevin Collison, Kansas City Star: Developer selection secures jobs at Honeywell April 6, 2009
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A short article by Kevin Collison at Kansas City Star.
developer has been chosen for the new Honeywell weapons plant in south Kansas City, capping a lengthy struggle to keep its 2,100 well-paid jobs in the area.A venture between Zimmer Real Estate Services of Kansas City and CenterPoint of Oak Brook, Ill., will develop the $500 million project, the federal General Services Administration is announcing today.Work sho…
QUESTOR: Plant Health has wilted but hold on for the sunshine (Garry White) April 4, 2009
Posted by assetbubbles in Asset Bubbles.Tags: Commodity Bubble, Cost, Indonesia Senegal Egypt, Philippines, Prices, Rioting, Staples, Steeply
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From The Daily Telegraph. Here we go again:
Until the commodity bubble burst last year, rising food prices were becoming a significant problem. It led to rioting in Indonesia, Senegal, Egypt and the Philippines as the cost of staples such as wheat and corn rose steeply.
