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Global Investing Roundups Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Oct 15th, 2008 | By William Patalon III | Category: Financial News, Stock Market Investing

Visa and MasterCard Settle Up; Daimler’s Plant Closures; Apple’s Christmas Bargain; Johnson Controls’ Weak Outlook; Gas Prices Down 23% From July; U.S. Budget Deficit the Highest Ever; Pepsi Fizzles

  • Apple Inc. (AAPL) will for the first time sell a MacBook for less than $1,000 during the coming holiday season, Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs announced yesterday (Tuesday). “Demand is going to be good,” Jobs said of the MacBooks, Bloomberg News reported. “We’re making a lot of them.”
  • Light, sweet crude for November delivery yesterday (Tuesday) fell $2.56 to settle at $78.63 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, amid signs of dwindling world energy demand. Gasoline prices have followed oil’s precipitous decline, falling 23% from the record average of $4.14 a gallon reached July 17 to $3.163, according to auto club AAA.

SOurce: Global Investing Roundups Wednesday, October 15th, 2008


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William Patalon IIIWilliam (Bill) Patalon III is the Managing Editor and Senior Research Analyst for Money Morning, and is also the Managing Editor for The Money Map Report. Patalon's work has appeared in Kiplinger's personal finance magazine, USA Today, and The South China Morning Post, among other publications.

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