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Blockbuster is now going to limit in-store exchanges to 5 movies per month – New Plan Structures – or you can pay 24.99 and get unlimited exchanges in a plan called “Total Access Premium”. This will make investors happy but subscribers unhappy. I was wondering what drove the stock up nearly 6% today and this [...]

Normally to find financial ratios, earnings etc. for a company, I just visit Yahoo! Finance and generally assume their data to be correct inspite of all the disclaimers. However this may not always be the case. Let’s take an example where things are really messed up at financial sites – e.g. BX – The Blackstone [...]

Netflix – NFLX lowered forecasts for the year and said it lost subscribers for the first time ever (down around 55,000 while last year they added around 300,000). This should come as no surprise because Netflix did absolutely nothing to compete with Blockbuster Total Access. They just sat and waited for Blockbuster to raise prices. [...]

Tata Motors Ltd. (TTM) is going global. Just look at the recent headlines about the stock:
India’s Tata, Mahindra eyeing Jaguar, Rover: report – This is not necessarily something I personally support or like but as a part of global expansion, I would deem it ok.

Report: Tata Motors to Invest in Thailand
Tata Motors plant in S.Africa [...]

I just got a notice when I logged in to Wachovia, that one stop is being discontinued on Aug 22. One-Stop is where you can view all your accounts online in one place. I just called Wachovia customer service to complain and mine was the first complaint that they got. If you dont know what [...]

Since my last post about Asset Allocation, I used a nice tool – Morningstar Instant Xray (I always assumed that this is a paid service but some parts are free) to get my asset allocation. It took a minute or two to get all the information needed and Morningstar did the rest. All that was [...]