JCPenney is having one of its best days in quite a while as the stock price pops on new merchandise, the return of sales and a rumor of an REIT-like transformation.
But a rumor of a bug in a device that Motorola knows isn't ready for consumers -- and has no material effect on any official launch date -- simply doesn't matter.
You know, it seems every three or four days, we take a new run at prices with some new rumor of a hedge fund that's going under, of a bank that might be having problems.
With that precedent set, shareholders knew that at the merest whiff of a bad rumor they'd better bail out of a bank or insurance company, or their money could be obliterated.
During a hearing Wednesday held by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, they continued to claim that the investment bank was done in by a cabal of rumor mongers.
There is all - a lot of rumor yesterday that it would be just about contractors and would shake Washington and this sort of thing, which is a little unusual.
The weak dollar has inspired a lot of rumor trading, including the idea that several Gulf states, along with Japan, Russia and China, are in talks to start pricing oil according to a basket of currencies.
Kim's history is a pastiche of fact, rumor and not a little romance.
Edge had previously mentioned the possibility of a dedicated share button on the next-gen controller, though that remains a product of the rumor mill at the moment.
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The rumor out of Spain (and a totally plausible rumor at that) is that Motorola's abandoning Symbian altogether to put most of its eggs in the Android basket.
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But, a week before the lecture, he caught wind of a disturbing rumor.
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He said he has no idea about the origin of a rumor that there was going to be no gas in Nashville.
You get wind of a rumor that the third fellow thinks stocks will run higher and higher, despite putting on a double-digit gain in the past eight to 10 months.
No iPhone, no Core 2 Duo MacBooks, not even that surefire rumor of a ninja cyborg Stevie J. clone came through for us, yet somehow we keep on keeping on.
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There are legitimate issues with the launch of Diablo III and perfectly reasonable concerns that have surfaced over the past few weeks, but this seems to be nothing more than rumor or a case of user error.
Europe is still on the brink, despite efforts by ECB president Mario Draghi, which has fueled rumor of a targeted bond buying program by the European Central Bank to lower rates in troubled sovereigns like Spain and Italy.
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In the latest outbreak of a rumor that seems to pop back up every few weeks, the tech news site The Register ran a story today that said an acquisition of OCZ by Seagate fell through over a dispute over whether recently departed OCZ CEO Ryan Petersen would get a seat on the Seagate board.
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"The minute you hear a rumor, just get rid of any risk and substantiate it later, " said Doug Dachille, chief executive of First Principles Capital Management LLC in New York.
After a lot of back and forth from the rumor mill and official OnLive channels, we now have what we believe to be a far clearer view of precisely what is happening right now at OnLive headquarters in Palo Alto.
There is a strong rumor that Facebook will offer a wireless device before the end of this year.
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In 1987 some irresponsible unknown doctor from Bombay spread a rumor that Osho might have contracted AIDS and the tabloids of Bombay published this sensational rumor, so the young doctor got publicity which he was seeking.
Still, this is what it is: a decent rumor with some reasonable excuses for "delays" and a glorious promise of tablet nirvana right around the corner.
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We definitely cannot attest to the reliability of Mac OS Rumors as a, um, rumor site, but they're reporting that Apple is working on some sort of high-definition satellite TV network.
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"The rally of the past four days could be a case of 'buy on the rumor, sell on the news, '" says Appel.
The rumor mill has suggested a launch date of September 21.
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Shooting down a rumor that Microsoft only sold about 503 of its Kin phones before pulling the plug: The official Microsoft Kin Facebook app, which says it has 8, 810 monthly active users.
So Droid Life -- which has earned itself a solid record in the rumor game as of late -- is reporting that Verizon Wireless will be dropping the "Wireless" portion of its name this weekend and announcing that it won't be carrying the iPhone 4, instead concentrating on its high-end line of Android devices that it's done an admirable job of building up lately.
Officially announced Tuesday--and the subject of rather rampant speculation and rumor for more than a month--AMD is taking direct aim at the clock speeds of chips produced by nemesis Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) by trying to fight against years of marketing inertia.
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