Filed under: Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Starbucks (SBUX), Southwest Airlines (LUV), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Blackstone Group L.P (BX)
Sometimes in a period of uncertainty, a look back can provide some perspective. So here are a few highlights from BloggingStocks on March 16, 2007,a year ago today.
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Business & Sports: Oil, Duke, & Notre Dame — down: What’s bigger news, who’s in the March Madness or oil dropping below $57 a barrel?
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Will ‘300′ controversy result in higher ticket sales?: Yeah, because this should be the main source of contention between the U.S. and Iran.
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An OPIC to counter OPEC: An Organization of Petroleum Importing Countries? Whatever became of that?
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Harry Potter and the 12 million order: Will the final movie in the Harry Potter series — er, make that two movies — generate this kind of excitment? Will anything?
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The CPI Numbers: Wall Street breathes brief sigh of relief: Wall Street could use another sigh of relief about now.
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Time magazine’s facelift: Magazines? Is anyone still reading those?
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Microsoft’s Ballmer takes more shots at Google: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has a beef with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)? Who’d have guessed?
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CNBC: Blackstone prepping for mega IPO: Remember the days when private equity was king?
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The Story You Didn’t Read: Digital killed the TV star: TV is going digital? Seems like I heard something about that somewhere recently?
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Subprime investment opportunities?: Investment banks struggling with the subprime mess? The more things change …
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JetBlue passengers grounded … again: Last year it was JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) cancellations; this year it’s Southwest (NYSE: LUV) cancellations.
