Court documents said he works in Afghanistan for Rockville-based BAE Systems, but he formerly provided personal security to the Iraqi prime minister and the Afghan president. Ayala and a fellow contractor, Paula Loyd, were accompanying a U.S. Army platoon on...
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Xbox 360 consoles this morning, Sony is pulling out as one of the few major studios to back Netflix's digital push. Roughly an eighth of the Netflix catalog of more than 100,000 titles is available through online streaming...Sony has played...
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Market sell-offs are painful, and adding insult to injury is that their pain isn't distributed equally -- at all. BP ) , three companies that are more than 30% below their 52-week highs through Monday's market close.
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Every one of those stocks -- heck, the overwhelming majority of stocks -- are worth much more than a measly 8 times earnings. The only thing that pushes the average stock to such embarrassing levels is an overdose of panic,...
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Election officials around the country are bracing for huge voter turnout and a big spike in early voting may not be enough to prevent long lines at the polls come November 4. A number of key swing states around the...
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Generating copious amounts of cash doesn't make a company an automatic buy. But having looked at Enron's cash flows, instead of its earnings, would have saved many investors a lot of grief. Warren Buffett understands that the value of a...
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The company blew through analysts' expectations yesterday when it released its third-quarter results. Product sales were up 39%, although total revenue was up just 30%, as royalties from sales of Tamiflu by Roche saw another year-over-year drop. The bird flu...
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Fools, the panic of 2008 has created opportunities for long-term-focused investors...The company, after all, pushed the revolution along when it won over tens of thousands of corporate clients to its cheaper, server-stored enterprise software solutions.
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Va. A judge was convicted Rep. Vito Fossella of drunken driving and will later decide if he should serve time in jail. The New York Republican was arrested May 1 in the suburbs outside Washington, leading to revelations he...
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