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  • The New York Times reported that News Corporation's (NYSE: NWS) New York Post and The Daily News, owned by Mortimer Zuckerman, are exploring a print pact and have been in talks to find ways to combine some business functions of the papers, according to people briefed on the matter.
  • According to sources, the San Francisco Business Times reported that Washington Mutual Incorporated (NYSE: WM) may be planning more layoffs in September. It is unclear how many employees will be affected and from which departments.
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Shareholders of Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) must be scratching their heads over the company's $650 million purchase of Newsday from Tribune Co., the latest in a long series of baffling moves by the Dolan family, which controls the New York-based cable company.

The theory -- if you want to call it that -- is that Cablevision would be able to market the newspaper to its customers and that the company would be able to add additional content to its cable news channel. This makes no sense. People have stopped reading newspapers in droves. The only way that they would even consider subscribing is if Cablevision practically gave the newspaper away. Newsday could have struck an alliance with the cable channel to share content without the paper changing hands; these sort of deals happen all of the time.

Maybe advertisers will be more interested in Newsday now that Cablevision will be able to bundle ad space in the paper and its website along with cable commercial time. The problem, though, is that residents in Long Island have a plethora of media choices including the New York Times, New York Daily News and The New York Post. Like the readers, the only way that advertisers that aren't in the newspaper now would consider doing business with Newsday would be with steep discounts.

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Media World: Cablevision's (CVC) purchase of Newsday makes little sense originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 12 May 2008 11:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mort Zuckerman, US News & World Reports editor-in-chief, editorialized this week about the United States' energy policy, or lack thereof.

Some interesting stats:
  • During the last 35 years, oil imports have gone from 35% to 60% of our consumption
  • Since 1988, automobile fuel efficiency has dropped
  • China is firing up a new big coal-fuel generating plant every few days
  • By 2030, China will have built 2,200 coal-fueled plants
  • If China and India consume as much per capita quantities of oil as a wealthy country like Japan, which consumes half that of the US on a per-capita basis, global oil demand will increase from 85 million barrels per day to 170 million barrels per day.
These are big numbers. The reality is, the U.S. consumer is due for a big wake up call. The long term supply and demand balances for oil, natural gas, ethanol, nuclear and coal--or any energy choice -- point to a rocky road ahead.

What to do about this? Invest in it. We have cautioned since the Spring--and rightly so--to stay away from commodity shares. However, it is time to start looking at these companies again.

One stock in particular that is looking more attractive is Nabor Industries Limited (NYSE: NBR) which has corrected from $40 to $29.60. Management is supposedly getting restless about its current valuation and might be looking at a recap.

Energy to burn originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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