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Netflix Slammed by Amazon
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Netflix slammed as rival Amazon inks movie deal. Shares of online video company Netflix are taking a battering Tuesday, lately down 7 percent at $55, on news that rival Amazon.com has inked a distribution deal with Viacom’s Epix premium cable network. The Epix deal with Amazon comes days after Netflix’s exclusive deal with Epix expired, and it “gives Amazon Prime members a lot less reason to also have a Netflix subscription,” R. J. Hottovy, an analyst with Morningstar, said of the Amazon-Epix deal. The Amazon deal with Epix doubles the number of movies in Amazon’s library, and demonstrates the online...
Wallstreet Windown
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Gold prices are down. After peaking at over $1,900 an ounce in August 2011, gold prices are down around 12%, as of this writing, to about $1,670. Nevertheless, investors’ demand for gold bullion ETFs has not dulled. Global gold exchange traded product holdings have risen to a record...