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Palin Pranked

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:43:00 +0000

Here is the Palin Pranked Audio.

Funny but not very amusing to the Republicans.

It seems she still has more bumpy roads ahead if she manages to be the Vice President.

Wish her all the good wishes and blessings.

Gov. Palin, dont be pranked again.

Here is the Audio

Obama's 30 minutes Infomercial Ad watched by 33 Million Americans

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:16:00 +0000

We are not yet sure if Barack Obama will make a good President or not, but one thing is sure that he is good in Advertising and Marketing.

To advertise and market himself as the best candidate for President of US for Election 2008 Sen. Barack Obama bought 30 minutes on most of the major television networks to run his advertisement. To comment on the production quality and the way it was presented, it was indeed extraordinary.

Sen Obama's 30-minute prime-time infomercial ad was seen by estimated 33.6 million viewers across the major national seven networks -- FOX Network, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, Univision, TV One and BET

Obama's Message and information has reached the american public, but it has yet to be seen how the american public respond to the message, maybe in few days.

Here is the Full 30 min Obama's Informercial

Who is Joe the Plumber?

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:16:00 +0000

Joe the Plumber was the star of the final presidential debate on Wednesday night. But who is he?

Last weekend, while Barack Obama was canvassing for support in the small town of Holland, Ohio, the Democratic nominee ran into a tall, bald man, since dubbed Joe the plumber. He asked Obama if he believed in the American Dream — he said he was about to buy a company that makes more than $250,000 a year and was concerned that the Democratic nominee would tax him more because of it.

Obama explained his tax plan in depth, saying it’s better to lower taxes for Americans who make less money, so that they could afford to buy from his business. John McCain attacked Obama for this exchange, saying the Illinois senator is trying to “spread the wealth around.”

“We're going to take Joe's money, give it to Senator Obama, and let him spread the wealth around. I want Joe the plumber to spread the wealth around,” McCain said. He added, “Why would you want to increase anybody's taxes right now? Why would you want to do that to anyone, anyone in America, when we have such a tough time?”

Is 'Joe the Plumber' a plumber?

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:16:00 +0000

"Joe," whose name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, was cited repeatedly in Wednesday night's final presidential debate by McCain for questioning Barack Obama's tax policy.
Wurzelbacher instantly became a media celebrity, fielding calls during the debate and facing reporters outside his home near Toledo on Thursday morning for an impromptu nationally televised news conference.
The burly, bald man acknowledged he doesn't have a plumber's license, but said he didn't need one because he works for someone else at a company that does residential work.
But Wurzelbacher still would need to be a licensed apprentice or journeyman to work in Toledo, and he's not, said David Golis, manager and residential building official for the Toledo Division of Building Inspection.
State and local records show Wurzelbacher has no license, although his employer does. Golis said there are no records of inspectors citing Wurzelbacher for unlicensed work in Toledo.

S P 500 List

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:05:00 +0000

List of Companies in the S P 500

List of Companies in S P 500

S&P Global Indices

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:04:00 +0000

Here is a List of S&P Global Indices

S&P Global Indices

S P 500 Index

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:58:00 +0000

Standard Poors 500 Index

Herer is a list of S P 500 Index from different sources:

From Bloomberg
Bloomberg

From CNN Money
CNN Money

S P 500 Index Historical Prices from yahoo
Historical Prices from Yahoo

From Google
Google

From BusinessWeek
Business Week

What Is the S&P 500

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:54:00 +0000

What is the S&P 500

The Standard and Poors 500 (S&P 500) is an index made up of five hundred different stocks. Each is selected for liquidity, size, and industry. The index is weighted for market capitalization. The S&P 500 is the benchmark of the overall market, and frequently used as the standard of comparison in terms of investment performance.

An index of 500 stocks chosen for market size, liquidity and industry grouping, among other factors. The S&P 500 is designed to be a leading indicator of U.S. equities and is meant to reflect the risk/return characteristics of the large cap universe.

Companies included in the index are selected by the S&P Index Committee, a team of analysts and economists at Standard & Poor's. The S&P 500 is a market value weighted index - each stock's weight in the index is proportionate to its market value.

Here is the S&P Index for Today
S&P Index

What Stocks Comprise the Dow Jones

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:51:00 +0000

The Following Stock Comprise the Dow Jones
These companies make up the Dow
These make up the list of Dow 30 Companies

3m Co

Alcoa Inc

American Express Company

AT&T Inc.

Bank of America Corporation

Boeing Co.

Caterpillar Inc.

Chevron Corp

Citigroup, Inc.

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company

Exxon Mobil Corp

General Electric Company

General Motors Corporation

Hewlett-Packard Co.

Intel Corporation

International Business Machines

Johnson & Johnson

JP Morgan & Chase & Co

Kraft Foods Inc.

McDonald's Corporation

Merck & Co., Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Pfizer Inc

The Coca-Cola Company

The Home Depot, Inc.

The Procter & Gamble Company

United Technologies Corporation

Verizon Communications

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Walt Disney Company (The) (Holding Company)

Dow 30 Components

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:34:00 +0000

Here is a List of Dow 30 Companies:
Dow Jones Industrial 30 Companies Symbols

Symbol

AXP

BAC

CAT

CVX

DIS

HPQ

IBM

INTC

JNJ

JPM

KFT

MCD

MMM

MRK

MSFT

PFE

UTX

WMT

XOM

Dow Jones Industrial 30 Companies

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:31:00 +0000

Here is a list of Dow Jones Industrial 30 Companies:

Alcoa - AA
American Express - AXP
AT&T - T
Boeing - BA
Caterpillar - CAT
Coca-Cola - KO
Citigroup - C
Disney - DIS
DuPont - DD
Eastman Kodak - EK
Exxon Mobil - XOM
General Electric - GE
General Motors - GM
Hewlett-Packard - HWP
Home Depot - HD
Honeywell - HON
IBM - IBM
Intel - INTC
International Paper - IP
Johnson & Johnson - JNJ
McDonald's - MCD
Merck - MRK
Microsoft - MSFT
3M - MMM
JP Morgan - JPM
Philip Morris - MO
Proctor & Gamble - PG
SBC Communications - SBC
United Tech - UTX
Wal-Mart - WMT

Dow Jones Index

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:27:00 +0000

Here is a list of Dow Jones Index from different Sources:

From Dow Jones Indexes
Dow Jones Indexes

From CNN Money
CNN Money

From Dow Jones
Dow Jones

From Bloomberg
Bloomberg

Dow Jones Chart

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:16:00 +0000

Here is a list of different sources for Dow Jones Chart

Dow Jones Live Chart:
Live Chart

Dow Jones Industrial Average from BigCharts
BigCharts

Dow Jones Industrial Average from MSN Money
MSN Money

Dow Jones Industrial Average from Yahoo
Yahoo

Why You Should Fear the Future

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:03:00 +0000

Remember when everyone was quoting Baron Rothschild, saying, "Buy when blood is in the streets"? Well, this is it. We're in the Wall Street equivalent of Kill Bill meets Jurassic Park. It looks like it's all over but the spurting.

Warren Buffett knows how to play this game. He's buying, and he says that in five or 10 years, "we'll look back on this period and we'll see that you could have made some extraordinary buys."

But when the market drops 9% in a day, it's hard to react logically, like Buffett -- and not, say, curl up into a quivering, sniffling ball. Here are five ways to help you achieve your goal.

1. Be afraid -- be very afraid
Instead of looking at how much you can make by buying a stock, examine all the ways that you can lose. Bruce Berkowitz, who manages the Fairholme Fund, swears by this strategy. He tries to think of every possible scenario that can kill a company -- and if he can't find any, then he'll buy.

Read On...

Historic Bailout Passes As Economy Slips Further

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:53:00 +0000

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush signed into law an unprecedented $700 billion plan to rescue the U.S. financial system, one of the largest-ever government interventions in the nation's economy -- and almost certainly not the last.

The Treasury Department is expected to move quickly to start buying distressed assets from struggling financial institutions, although any impact might not be felt for some weeks. Many details -- such as who will administer the program and how -- are still to be worked out.
That lingering uncertainty cast a pall over stock and bond markets. Credit markets remained stressed as lenders continued to worry about getting repaid. The three-month Libor rate, a measure of the rate that banks charge to lend to one another, rose to 4.33% Friday from 4.21% the day before.

Read On...

US Economy Graphs

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:02:00 +0000

Economy Graphs for United States (US Economic Data)

US Economy Summary

Unemployment Rate in the United States

Total non-farm employment in the United States

Hourly Earnings of Production Workers in the United States

Producer Price Index - Finished Goods

Producer Price Index - Finished Goods Less Food and Energy

Import Price Index 12 Months Change - All Imports

US Consumer Price Index 12 Months Percent Change - All Items

US Consumer Price Index 12 Months Percent Change - Less Food and Energy

Import Price Index 12 Months Change - All Imports Excluding Petroleum

US Consumer Credit Outstanding Seasonally Adjusted

US Debt Service Ratio Seasonally Adjusted

Moody's Seasoned AAA Corporate Bonds

Conventional Mortgage Interest Rates (U.S.)

US Civilian Employment Cost Index Wages and Salaries

US Construction Expenditures

US Durable Goods New Orders

US International Trade in Goods and Services

US Large Retailers' After Tax Profits (Percent)

US Civilian Employment Cost Index Benefits

US Quarterly Productivity in non-farm Business Sector

How Healthy Is the United States Economy

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:51:00 +0000

You wondering if the US Economy is Healthy and if it is improving.
It might not appear so, but yes there are signs that the US Economy is Healthy and it is improving and that US Economy has a good Future.

Friday, August 1, 2008;

The economy grew at a respectable pace this spring, despite the financial crisis, soaring fuel prices and moribund housing market. But as the impact of government stimulus payments fades and a boom in exports levels off, the economy is likely to face deepening challenges in the months ahead, economists said.

Consumers spent their economic stimulus checks and exporters shipped more goods abroad in the second quarter, according to a report from the Commerce Department yesterday, leading to a 1.9 percent annual growth rate in gross domestic product. That is not far below the nation's long-term growth potential.

Read On....

Statistics on the U.S. Economy

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:48:00 +0000

Here is Your Statistics on the US Economy

Based on this data you can have your own Analysis of the US Economy.

Hope you find it useful.

United States - Quarterly Data Data Series Back
Data 2nd Qtr
2007 3rd Qtr
2007 4th Qtr
2007 1st Qtr
2008 2nd Qtr
2008
Employment Cost Index (1)
0.9 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7
Productivity (2)
4.1 5.8 0.8 2.6 4.3

How Is the Economy in the United States

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:42:00 +0000

I am sure in the context of the current events you have asked questions like
How Is the American Economy Doing Today? and wanted to know on the Current Condition of the United States Economy.

Here is the data on US Economy Summary and How is US Economy Today

Hope you find it useful.

Economy at a Glance
United States

United States - Monthly Data Data Series Back
Data Mar
2008 Apr
2008 May
2008 June
2008 July
2008 Aug
2008
Unemployment Rate (1)
5.1 5.0 5.5 5.5 5.7 6.1
Change in Payroll Employment (2)
-88 -67 -47 -100 (P) -60 (P) -84
Average Hourly Earnings (3)
17.87 17.89 17.95 18.00 (P) 18.07 (P) 18.14
Consumer Price Index (4)
0.3 0.2 0.6 1.1 0.8 -0.1
Producer Price Index (5)
0.9 0.3 (P) 1.4 (P) 1.8 (P) 1.2 (P) -0.9
U.S. Import Price Index (6)
3.1 2.8 2.8 (R) 3.1 (R) 0.2 (R) -3.7

Current US Economy Status

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:35:00 +0000

You wondering about the Current State of US Economy?
And asked yourself, How is the American Economy Doing Today?

For a comprehensive overview of the Current Status of US Economy have a look at the following details from BEA.

BEA produces some of the most closely watched economic statistics that influence decisions of government officials, business people, and individuals. These statistics provide a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the U.S. economy. The data on this page are drawn from featured BEA economic accounts.

National Economic Accounts:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Current Numbers:
2nd quarter 2008: +2.8 percent
1st quarter 2008: +0.9 percent

U.S. stocks bounce back after Monday's plunge

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:20:00 +0000

Indexes positioned for steep declines in crisis-riddled month of September

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock indexes on Tuesday blasted back from the prior session's historic rout, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average chalking up its third-biggest point gain on optimism that a rescue plan would make a comeback in coming days on Capitol Hill.
"Maybe the sky isn't falling," said Frederic Ruffy, options strategist at WhatsTrading.com.

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$INDU 10,850.66, +485.21, +4.7%) gained 485.21 points, or 4.7%, to 10,850.66, a level that has the blue-chip index down 6% from the end of August, and 4.4% for the third quarter.
Of the Dow's 30 components, all but one ended higher, with blue-chip financials fronting the advance.

Timeline: New Zealand

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:30:00 +0000

A chronology of key events:

c.1000 AD - Maori arrive from other parts of Polynesia.

1642 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman visits New Zealand.

1769 - British captain James Cook explores coastline, also in 1773 and 1777.

1815 - First British missionaries arrive.

1840 - Treaty of Waitangi between British and several Maori tribes pledges protection of Maori land and establishes British law in New Zealand.

1845-72 - The New Zealand Wars, also referred to as the Land Wars. Maori put up resistance to British colonial rule.

1893 - New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.

1898 - Government introduces old-age pensions.

Spanish house sales drop sharply

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:29:00 +0000

Spanish house sales slumped by 26.3% in the year to July, according to official figures.

Mortgage lending plunged by 33.2% to 10.2bn euros ($14.9bn; £8.1bn), said Spain's National Statistics Institute.

The credit crunch has led to a property slump in Spain and many economists say it is on the verge of recession.

The property market has been the main driver of economic growth over the past decade, but analysts say Spanish house prices are still up to 30% overvalued.

Property slump

The July figures were slightly better than those for June, when the year-on-year declines for both house sales and mortgage lending were even steeper.

Spanish house prices declined 0.3% between April and June, according to official figures from the country's housing ministry.

However, estate agents estimate prices have slipped by about 5% this year.

Has the gain in Spain gone down the drain?

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:27:00 +0000

With a copy of the Daily Mail on the cafe table, Eric Summers orders a white coffee for himself and a tonic water for wife Viola - in fluent Spanish.

A late-morning drink on the pavement cafes of Torrevieja has been a way of life since the couple moved to the Costa Blanca about nine years ago.

But in recent months, like many others, they have been more careful about watching the pennies, or at least the euro cents.

Eric and Viola are among the estimated 375,000 expatriates who have retired to Europe and seen the value of their UK pension plummet because of the soaring value of the euro.

Many state pensions, paid in sterling, are now worth between £50 and £80 less a month after the exchange rate sank earlier this year.

"You definitely notice it," says Eric, 78, folding his newspaper.

"This time last year my British pension got me 750 euros a month - now it's about 670 euros."

Timeline: Global credit crunch

noreply@blogger.com (Robert) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:26:00 +0000

A year ago, few people had heard of the term credit crunch, but the phrase has now entered dictionaries.

Defined as "a severe shortage of money or credit", the start of the phenomenon has been pinpointed as 9 August 2007 when bad news from French bank BNP Paribas triggered sharp rise in the cost of credit, and made the financial world realise how serious the situation was.

The problems, however, started much earlier.

GROWING SUB-PRIME PROBLEMS
After a two year period between 2004 and 2006 when US interest rates rose from 1% to 5.35%, the US housing market begins to suffer, with prices falling and a rise in homeowners defaulting on their mortgages.

Default rates on sub-prime loans - high risk loans to clients with poor or no credit histories - rise to record levels.

APRIL-AUGUST 2007: SUB-PRIME CONTAGION
April