- Daimler cuts dividend as downturn, R&D costs hit Mercedes -- Reuters.
- Daimer's Mercedes sales drive higher but charges put brakes on profit -- Reuters via Yahoo!Finance.
- Daimler CEO promises fresh approach after bumpy start in role -- Bloomberg via Yahoo!Finance.
Market:
- S&P 500, NASDAQ: hit all-time records. Again.
- Sprint, of course, will surge, maybe double in share price before the week is out; it's already up 74% today;
- AAPL: up a bit, $322.23
- SRE: up a bit, $158.66
- UNP: a bit, $185.32
- IMUX, down two cents, at $8.89
- EW, up a bit, at $228.64
- XLNX, up 4.07%; up $3.51; trading just under $90; 52-week high: $142;
- ENB, wow, up over 1%; up 44 cents; trading at $43, with a one-year target of $45; and paying 5.74%;
Local weather, DFW (north Texas): drowning in rain this week.
Politics: New Hampshire primary will be a hoot. Republicans "writing in" the Dem of their choice.
Later, what does this cruise ship have in common with Mitt Romney?
- Choices:
- no party for either?
- both are quarantined?
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The Book Page
From Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origin of the Epic, Andrew Dalby, c. 2006
From page 153, the denouement:
- the two epics; oral poems; most well-known singer associated with the epics: Homer
- Homer probably lived around 850 BC
- Iliad: written down -- 650 BC
- Odyssey: written down -- 630 BC
- author of the written versions:
- unknown
- both by same author
- a woman
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