June 10 - June 16, 2007
Saturday, Jun. 16
If you still have any doubt why those two senators want to make a federal case out of how much... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Friday, Jun. 15
That's what Michael Goldstein is posting on his Monday Morning Media Quaterback blog. Apparently, there are "For Rent" signs in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
WSJ just reported that Financial Times publisher Pearson has been trying to recruit partners to make an offer that would... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
May's jobless rate in Los Angeles County fell to 4.7 percent from 5.0 percent a month earlier and 4.9 percent... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The porn industry is just dying to get its hands on the U.S. mobile phone market - and for a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Michael Moore's controversial film about the U.S. health care system is apparently all over the Internet, according to Ad Age's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Inflation worries: Higher gas prices may not have curbed retail sales last month, but they certainly had an impact on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Jun. 14
The Mortgage Bankers Association says that without California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona, the number of first-quarter foreclosure starts would have... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
BW picks up on the LABO scooplet from a couple weeks back about L.A.-based crisis manager Mike Sitrick being hired... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
You don't get $360 million worth of investment money and suddenly file Chapter 11 with $100 million in liabilities without... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wear a suit and tie in L.A.? I suppose it's still the norm in certain pockets of the city, especially... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Is it mere coincidence that Stockton was the nation's hottest home buying market in 2001 and now leads the nation... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Who needs "The Sopranos"?: George Torres owns the chain of Numero Uno grocery stores located in low-income parts of L.A.,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Jun. 13
The bid was for more than $2 billion, according to Bloomberg News, which cited a person with direct knowledge of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Dow rose 187 points, its biggest gain in almost 11 months. A good-sized rebound seemed in the offing since... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
He'll tell you that at 83, it was time. Simple as that. But an online article in Radar suggests that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
No, it's not a joke - it even happened at the Playboy mansion last night. Six teams make up the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
L.A. sales in May tumbled 31 percent from a year earlier, part of a 34.4 percent collapse for all of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
He's the CEO of Blackstone Group, the massive private equity firm that's about to go public, and he points out... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Market watch: This could be a rebound day, with bond yields slipping a bit and better-than-expected retail sales in May.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tuesday, Jun. 12
We're talking more than $200 million in overcharges to the county, the school district and other government entities, according to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The White House is saying that the SEC, and not individual investors, should be the ones suing third parties -... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It's hard to know what to make of ReadyTrac's foreclosure filings for May. Numbers compiled by the Irvine-based firm are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Boy, for a magazine that comes out once every six months or so, Portfolio sure gets a lot of attention.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The market got whacked again - the Dow was down 130 points thanks to new worries about interest rates -... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
First off, let's get our definitions straight. There's the affluent, the rich and the superrich, and according to a survey... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Market watch: There's more speculation about central banks raising interest rates, which has yields on 10-year Treasuries reaching 5.21 percent... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Monday, Jun. 11
As in Soprano over Broadway (was there any doubt?). Nielsen won't have detailed numbers until tomorrow, but metered overnights in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Forget about naysayers who claim that the state is stuck in neutral. Well, sort of forget about them. California's gross... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It's more than two years until Conan O'Brien takes over "The Tonight Show," but already he's house hunting around town... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Talk about marketing leverage for a guy who is making noises about a trade. No. 24 has been the best-selling... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Home price illusion: May's median price for L.A. County was $585,000, up 6.4 percent from a year earlier, according to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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