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- Is Your Firm Doomed to be Second Rate?
- Is Your Firm Doomed to be Second Rate?Become a Broker?This research suggests that customers like to deal with a broker. The customer can make a request for anything within the broker's area of expertise and the broker goes out and finds the best solution. This removes the "heavy...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
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- Is Your Firm Doomed to be Second Rate?
- Last month I had an interesting conversation with Howard Stevens, the CEO of the HR Chally Group. Every year or so, he conducts an exhaustive survey of tens of thousands of customer and buyers to determine which of 7,300 sales organizations customers actually prefer to buy from. Occasionally,...
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- On being second-rate: the Skeleton Art of Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes is periodically subject to critical resurrection, in an attempt to secure his 'rightful place' in the canon. But Beddoes himself offers a different perspective on his life's work--principally its central ruin, Death's Jest-Book. He repeatedly described himself as a second-rate poet, inferior to the Romantic poets he...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Poor Retail Numbers Hint at Rate Pause
- A worse-than-expected retail trade result for September increases the likelihood that the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA may leave interest rates unchanged in December, economists say.Australian retail trade at current prices fell 0.2 per cent in September to a seasonally adjusted $19.719 billion, from $19.753 billion in August, the...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Council requests 3.6% workers comp rate cut
- Oklahoma businesses could get an early Christmas present this year in the form of a workers compensation rate reduction if a group representing the insurance industry has its way. The National Council on Compensation Insurance Friday requested a 3.6 percent rate cut from the State Board for Property...
- Research articles 1998-06-29
- Euro tops 1.45 dollars for first time after Fed rate cut
- NEW YORK AFP — The euro topped the 1.45-dollar level for the first time Wednesday after the US Federal Reserve lowered its base federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.50 percent. The single European currency hit 1.4504 dollars nearly an hour after the Fed's...
- Research articles 2007-10-31
- European Central Bank Cuts Key Interest Rate.
- By Kimberly Blanton, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--The European Central Bank, after insisting for months that it would not reduce interest rates in response to a world economic slowdown, abandoned that stance yesterday and enacted the second rate...
- Research articles 2001-05-11
- Rate cut no tonic for cable stocks
- The Federal Reserve's second rate cut Jan. 31 was supposed to provide the market -- and cable MSOs -- with the same euphoria that ensued after its early January reduction. But instead of another 10%-plus pop in share prices, some cable stocks, such as Adelphia Communications and Charter Communications,...
- Research articles 2001-02-12
- Ensemble comedy's second coming
- It was comedy on a shoestring, but the laughs were rarely cheap. A scrappy TV sketch show rooted in the improv-club tradition of Second City as in Chicago and produced in Canada -- which equals second-rate, as far as Hollywood power mongers are concerned. For eight years, initially in...
- Research articles 2004-06-08
- There's a Sucker Born Every Second
- Long-time readers are probably wondering why I haven't commented on the Madoff ponzi scheme. I mean, you'd think that an alleged $50 billion fraud would get on my radar screen, if only as an example of over-enthusiastic selling. Anyway, here's my two cents. ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-23
- PNM Resources, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Unidentified Analyst Two questions, the first relates to will you file another rate case immediately following your May decision and how early do you think you would be able to go back in. The second question is I guess I don’t understand that you’re showing about...
- Earnings calls 2008-02-11
- Real GDP advanced at an annual rate of 2.3% in second quarter 1999.
- Real GDP advanced at an annual rate of 2.3% in second quarter 1999, according to first estimates from Commerce. Advance poll of economists by Market News Service had put the second quarter growth rate at a much higher 3.4%. In view of Fed interest rate rhetoric, the...
- Research articles 1999-09-02
- Why Industry Analysts are Sales Tools
- Why Industry Analysts are Sales Toolsonly when the analyst has influence ...My main points (or at least, what I was trying to say ...) were that when your target customers are NOT reading the said analysts reports ... and the analysts are lifting your perspective on the landscape (without any...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
- Shaw Communications, Inc. F4Q07 (Qtr End 8/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. And our first question will now come from Vince Valentini. Please go ahead. Vince Valentini - TD Securities Inc. Hey, thanks. Good quarter guys and good dividend increase. Just on the subscriber side, the numbers on the telephony are a...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-28
- Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. Announces Tender Offers and Consent Solicitations for Its Second-Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes Due 2010 and Its 9% Second-Priority Senior Secured Notes Due 2014
- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. ("Hexion" or the "Company") announced today that it is offering to purchase for cash i any and all of the outstanding $150,000,000 principal amount at maturity of Second-Priority Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2010 (CUSIP No. 07329WAA6) (the "2005 Floating Rate Notes"),...
- Research articles 2006-10-12
- Second Quarter 2009 Market Review
- John D. Frankola submits:Stock markets produced positive gains in the second quarter of 2009. The S&P 500 Index generated returns of 15.9% for the quarter as investors’ confidence improved with signs that the economy may be turning around. While most economic data continued to show significant weakness, the rate of...
- External links 2009-07-07
- Magazines go postal over rate hike; Direct mailers also rattled by second increase.(U.S. Postal Service)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- The second postal-rate hike this year, this one taking effect in little more than a month, has magazine publishers and direct marketers irate, even as they face the prospect the U.S. Postal Service will request another rate increase this summer that The second postal-rate hike...
- Research articles 2001-05-14
- Adjustable mortgage rate lowest since 1999.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Home mortgage rates fell for a second consecutive week, with the rate on a 1-year adjustable mortgage at its lowest level in more than a year, Freddie Mac said March 8. The 6.29 percent rate this week follows a 6.39 percent rate last week...
- Research articles 2001-03-26
- More MSO's blast FCC rate rereg. (multiple system operator; Federal Communications Commission; cable television rate reduction) (Brief Article)
- Cable MSOs Cablevision Systems and Comcast both criticized the FCC's latest rate regulations last week. Cablevision announced plans to cut back expenses "to help limit the effect of the impending second round of FCC rate rollbacks." The c Cable MSOs Cablevision Systems and Comcast...
- Research articles 1994-05-16
- Orange County, Calif., Vacancy Rate, Prices of Retail Space Is Higher.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Jul. 22--New inventory pushed the vacancy rate in Orange County's retail market higher in the second quarter of 2000, but lease rates continued to rise. After dropping for the past four quarters, the vacancy rate rose to 8.1 percent, according to CB Jul. 22--New inventory...
- Research articles 2000-07-22
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