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by Felix Salmon
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Feb 14 2008 12:00am EDT

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Handicapping the VP Race

Systemic risk rises: correlation hits new highs: Sam Jones is really good on this stuff.

Apple Shares Rolling Downhill: "As of Feb. 12, Apple shares had dropped 36% since the beginning of the year. Research In Motion had lost less than 20%, despite a widespread service outage for its BlackBerry e-mail devices. HP has shed less than 14% this year. Shares of bellwethers Cisco Systems, Intel, and Google have also held up better than Apple since the start of the year. "

Bradford & Bingley’s funny numbers: Their pro-forma results "exclude certain items resulting from strategic decisions". 'Cos of course investors wouldn't be interested in how those strategic decisions were working out.

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