March 4 - March 10, 2007
Friday, Mar. 9
•More complications for Amgen's anemia drugs Aranesp and Epogen. Both will get stronger warnings about serious health effects, including death.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Call it the illusion of originality. Instead of airing a plain old repeat that will get only so-so ratings, why... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Federal Reserve Gov. Susan Bies didn't tell us anything in a speech today that we didn't already know - that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Decent employment news: The U.S. February jobless rate fell to 4.5 percent from 4.6 percent the previous month (that's the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Mar. 8
The Irvine-based mortgage company specializing in subprime loans has stopped accepting loan applications, which is another sign that the end... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
There's being rich and there's being ludicrously rich. Forbes deals with that latter category in its annual ranking of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Based on an internal investigation, CEO Bobby Kotick is in the clear, as far as "intentional wrongoing" in the way... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Well, what do you think is going to happen when someone with a poor credit history can "buy" a house... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Back at those CAA HQs, Nikki Finke hears about a mandate to cut expenses by a whopping 20 percent. That... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
He's Henry Winterstern and his resignation last week as CEO of First Look Pictures, an upstart independent, is another example... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Ratings-wise, the Katie Couric Evening News seems to be going nowhere fast, so CBS News President Sean McManus is bringing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Verizon has a serious outage problem, so LA Biz Observed is more or less shut down for now. No morning... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Mar. 7
Wallstrip.com has a video clip of the real Suze Orman and a made-up version doing an impersonation of Jim Cramer.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Katie Couric isn't exactly taking the ratings world by storm and Rebecca Dana wonders in Slate whether there are some... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The former Lakers great and his joint-venture partner, Canyon -Johnson Urban Fund, are providing $12.4 million of financing to help... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Toilets, refrigerators, beds, medicine cabinets and cereal boxes are apparently pretty terrible places, according to PFAdvice.com, which got the skinny... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
At least parts of it. The Santa Monica-based subprime lender is talking to as many as six suitors, according to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Flat market: A pretty low-key first hour on Wall Street (for a change), with the Dow up just a shade.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tuesday, Mar. 6
The stock market had a good day - finally. The Dow was up 157 points, or 1.3 percent, and most... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Michael Eisner could be in store for a bit of a rumble. As noted earlier, his investment company, along with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Some of the high-end boutiques within a couple of blocks of The Ivy are shelling out $17 a square foot,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Market bounceback?: They're calling it "Turnaround Tuesday" and stocks are indeed up this morning, but not by all that much... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Monday, Mar. 5
Nikki Finke reports that THR's Cynthia Littleton and Anne Thompson are jumping to Variety. Littleton, who had been editor of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
They must be close to pulling the plug at Irvine-based New Century, while Fremont General's condition is extremely critical. It's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Another bad day: Well, a bad opening, for sure. Asian and European markets were down today and that will cascade... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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