Fact-A-Day from Harry K. Harry K. Jones on 22 Jul 2008 10:00 am
Fact-A-Day from Harry K. - July 22, 2008
In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.
- On July 2nd, after Merrill Lynch analysts downgraded General Motors’ stock from “buy” to “underperform” and said that bankruptcy was “not impossible,” GM shares closed at 9.98, a 54-year low.
- Toyota’s market cap (calculated by multiplying the current share price [per share] with the number of shares outstanding) as of July 1, 2008: $163 billion. GM’s: $6.1 billion.
- Anheuser-Busch reportedly has agreed to be acquired by Belgian brewer InBev for about $52 billion. The deal being reported by The Wall Street Journal would create the world’s largest brewer and put the iconic American beer maker in the hands of the Belgian-based company behind Stella Artois and Beck’s beers.
- Baby boomers are retiring at the rate of 10,000 every day!
- To improve its chances of winning medals in next month’s Olympic games, China runs 3,000 special academies where 400,000 young runners, weight lifters, swimmers, and other athletes are rigorously screened and trained for hours every day.
- Chrysler said it will include wireless Internet as an option for all of its 2009 models, in a first for any automaker. Chrysler is hoping the Wi-Fi option will raise flagging sales. Highway Safety Associations are not happy with this announcement as they foresee an obvious safety hazard.
- Amazon.com’s website was down for a total of three hours in June. Amazon, which drew 58 million visitors in April, loses an estimated $1.8 million in sales every hour it is down.
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