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Black Friday: Sales Report and Open Forum
According to preliminary reports from several major news sources, retail numbers were higher than last year's on Black Friday, setting the holiday season off to strong start - although many still warn that key signs point to a significantly weaker overall holiday season.
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MARKET WATCH: Financial Q&A Forum
If you have a specific question about your business's finances, or just a general question about the economy (besides the obvious "When's it going to get better?"), you've come to the right place.
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SIMA/ Transworld Business Consumer Survey: Surfboard Sales
Transworld Business teamed up with SIMA to conduct a survey at the Sacred Craft consumer surfboard expo held in Del Mar, California a few weeks ago. Here's a portion of the results.
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MARKET WATCH: A Closer Look At Quiksilver
I’ve had a number of emails asking me what I thought about Quiksilver. Some of them have been along the lines of, “Should I buy the stock?” or “What’s it worth? If I knew with any degree of certainty whether or not to buy Quik stock, or any other stock, I’d be rich, rich, rich. As far as what it’s worth goes, it’s worth what it’s trading for right now. This minute. No idea if it will be worth more or less tomorrow.
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MARKET WATCH: What Does It Mean When Stocks Drop Below $1?
There has, I gather, been some discussions/speculation about the circumstances under which a publicly traded company can be delisted from a stock exchange. I don't claim to be an expert in this. It's different for each exchange and I guess not set in stone. But as there seems to be some interest, I thought I'd lay out what I found out about the process for the NASDAQ market.
Back in May, ESPN filed a suit against Quiksilver alleging the company was using a mark confusingly similar to the X mark used for the X Games. Now it looks like the rolls have reversed, and ESPN will face allegations in court that its X logo violates Quiksilver's Gen X clothing trademark.
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MARKET WATCH: No Surprises From Columbia's Quarterly Report
Every time I look at somebody’s (pretty much anybody’s) September 30th quarterly report, I see the beginnings of the recession, and worry about what these things will look like when we see the ones for the December 31st quarter. I know everybody else is worrying about that as well. Worrying doesn’t really help. All you can do is run your business well and that seems to be what Columbia is doing.
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MARKET WATCH: Follow-Up On Volcom's 3rd Quarter 10Q
I wrote about the quarter’s results when they came out with their press release. I’m not going to repeat that analysis, you can go back and read it if you want. I said I would follow up when I had the more detailed actual filing. Now that I have it, there are some points I want to highlight.




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