Cramer says Nvidia is the smartest and the best way to play the netbooks explosion. Nvidia makes compact graphics processors, called ION, for the tiny computers which should reach 35 million in worldwide sales for 2010.
Congratulations to John Liu and Bill de Blasio for primary runoff victories that ensure their inaugurations New Year’s Day as controller and public advocate. This morning, they must do their first services to taxpayers.
The trial of a former Junction City mayor charged with taking bribes got under way with prosecutors playing a tape in which Michael “Mick” Wunder admits taking $19,000 from a developer.
A green power building spree is on the way, and much of it will be brought to you by the same people who built the nuclear and coal-fired power plants that keep the lights on now.
Scott Burns is a syndicated columnist and a principal of the Plano-based investment firm AssetBuilder Inc. E-mail questions to scott@scottburns.com.
Q: Is there any chance that Congress will allow IRA holders to once again donate money directly from an IRA to a charitable organization in 2010?
Elizabeth Jones’s paintings depict bright flowers, colorful landscapes and bold sunsets, reflections of photographs and memories.
“It gives me pleasure,” Jones, 64, said of her painting and sketching.
Jones’s art has taken a larger role in her life since she became a resident of
The $63 billion Reserve Fund, part of the $3-trillion-plus network of money market funds that invest in “commercial paper” loans and other conservative securities, got caught with too many bad Lehman Bros.
Dollar funding spreads tightened further in Asia and Eurodollar futures rose after the Federal Reserve extended its programme for purchases of debt from banks, signalling it would keep rates anchored for much longer.
So Milton Bradley got sent home by the Cubs, did he? One interview too many, one opinion over the line, one more game too far from the Cardinals for him to make any difference.