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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Actually, Its Not An Interesting Story

CNBC has devoted a lot of time in the last two days to whether the new Disney/Pixar combo will move over to the Nasdaq. "The Nasdaq is going to make a play because Steve Jobs is an old Nasdaq guy."

This might matter to Nasdaq (NDAQ) or Archipelago (AX) shareholders. Does anyone else care? Whether you care or not I am sure we can look forward to more coverage.

Vince Farrell will be on Mark Haines' show. Lemme guess, he's going to recommend three mega cap stocks.

I guess I woke up in a sour mood.

To balance with a little humor, I had a Stephen Wright moment at the bank yesterday. Why does the drive-through ATM have Braille on the keys?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe I can start something here.

A couple of my favorite market people are M J Whitman and Marc Faber.

I noted Marc mentioned Pfizer in Barron's Roundtable, and Marty has a long position as of 10/30/05 of a million shares of Pfizer.

Both have a tendency to get into things very early.


With Medicare Plan D taking hold and a recession possible, do you think big pharm might be coming into play? Any thoughts on what to play with - XLY? PHH? or pick a basket of individual stocks?

OG

Roger Nusbaum said...

I will work on this and post later today or tomorrow

Garland Greene said...

Yes, a good friend and I had that same moment a few months ago. I'd like to meet the lark that designed that.

Roger Nusbaum said...

GG,

Funny! While I knew I was not having an original thought I was disappointed in myself for not having noticed sooner.

Sidney Falco said...

rather than manufacture ATM keypads with the braille or without braille, the factory makes em all with braille.

this makes it convenient to install ATMs in pedestrian and drive-thru settings from a single pool of ATM parts. it avoids the need to supply another pool of braille-less keypads.

Garland Greene said...

But even using a walk up ATM, you need to be able to read the instruction cues to complete the transaction.

Does the ATM spits out instructions in brail on the receipt paper or does it have voice instructions?

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