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Rob Cox / breakingviews.com 11:14 PM | February 06,2009
News Corp.’s quarterly results include impairment charges of $3.06 billion, mostly related to Dow Jones
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Rob Cox / breakingviews.com 09:40 PM | February 02,2009
If structured properly, a bonus system binds workers to corporate objectives. It is also a form of compensation that can be altered along with economic circumstances or company goals
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Rob Cox / breakingviews.com 11:04 PM | January 26,2009
A potential deal with Wyeth, a drugs group half its size, looks like decent therapy
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Rob Cox / breakingviews.com 10:13 PM | January 21,2009
To nurse the financial system--and indeed the economy--back to health, Obama and his men will need to manage this conflict between the interests of shareholders and government with greater aplomb
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Antony Currie and Rob Cox / breakingviews.com 11:16 AM | January 20,2009
What is certain is that Citi has a long track record of promising synergies that never appear
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Jeff Segal and Rob Cox | breakingviews.com 12:30 AM | January 10,2009
Amazon.com Inc.’s hand-held electronic reading gadget is selling like hot cakes. Those available second-hand are going for up to twice the $360
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Rob Cox / breakingviews.com 11:54 PM | December 30,2008
Starting next year at UBS, cash will be held in escrow and can be snagged as a malus if the bank loses money
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Rob Cox and Lauren Silva Laughlin | breakingviews.com 01:15 AM | December 18,2008
Though it may count as a corporate finance achievement, Murdoch’s gambit for Dow Jones has played out poorly for his investors
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Jeff Segal and Rob Cox | breakingviews.com 11:58 PM | December 01,2008
By forcing Microsoft to defend its sub-scale search position, Yahoo might get its rival to admit that its bigger worry is the threat of so-called cloud computing to its core software business
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Rob Cox / breakingviews.com 12:05 AM | October 01,2008
Monday’s whopping 7% collapse in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and a spike in equity volatility suggest investors fear this could spell financial Armageddon
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Rob Cox / breakingviews.com 08:28 AM | September 22,2008
Treasury secretary Henry Paulson’s new fund is better than anything yet cooked up by the governments of Kuwait, China, Singapore, Abu Dhabi or others that have sprinkled their taxpayers’ surplus cash around the world the past few years
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Breakingviews.com | Rob Cox and Rachael Sanderson 12:26 AM | August 07,2008
Diageo, which brews Guinness along with distillations such as Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker, offers neither obstacle
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Breakingviews.com | Rob Cox 10:57 PM | July 20,2008
Merrill Lynch and Co. Inc.’s sale of its 20% stake in the financial news and data provider bearing his name makes Michael Bloomberg the richest man in Manhattan
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breakingviews.com | Rob Cox 11:43 PM | July 11,2008
At the same time, the credit cards-to-microwaves-to-jet engines maker has seen its market value drop by $125 billion
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breakingviews.com | Rob Cox 10:21 PM | June 22,2008
It is hard to see how the financial industry will enjoy times as good as those of the recent past for a long time to come
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