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Stars and Dogs for the week of Nov. 14

Archie, a Chinese Crested, is seen here prior to winning World's Ugliest Dog competition at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. in 2006.

Archie, a Chinese Crested, is seen here prior to winning World's Ugliest Dog competition at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. in 2006. Getty Images

A look at the companies that caught our eye, for better or worse, this week

John Heinzl

Published on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 7:37PM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 5:42PM EST

Electronic Arts

Introducing Electronic Arts' ERTS-Q newest video game: Employee Slashfest! You're the CEO of a struggling game developer, and you have to hack and chop 1,500 jobs across your operation – 16 per cent of your global work force! Your mission: End a string of 11 quarterly losses, including $391-million (U.S.) of red ink spilled this week. The action is so lifelike, you'd swear it's real! Actually, it is real!
     
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Dow Chemical

From insecticides to industrial solvents, Dow Chemical DOW-N has a complete range of poisonous products to make your next murder-for-hire job a success. But why risk jail time when you can make a killing buying the stock? Shares of the largest U.S. chemical maker rose after the CEO laid out ambitious restructuring plans designed to boost earnings following the $16.3-billion (U.S.) purchase of Rohm & Haas.
     
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Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart WMT-N slogans we'd like to see: 1) Big-ass stores. Big-ass lineups. Big-ass profits; 2) All the goodness China has to offer – right here in the U.S.A. 3) The brands you trust – and plenty you don't. Sure, the quality is often suspect, but it doesn't seem to be hurting Wally-World's bottom line: Third-quarter profit came in at $3.24-billion (U.S.), topping expectations.
     
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Advanced Micro Devices

Amazing how $1.25-billion (U.S.) can smooth over years of hatred and mistrust, isn't it? That's the amount Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, agreed to pay smaller rival AMD to settle claims that Intel abused its dominance by offering inducements to customers who refrained from buying Advanced Micro Devices AMD-N products. Just to show there are no hard feelings, the companies also signed a five-year cross-licensing deal..
     
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Abercrombie & Fitch

Actual products you can buy at Abercrombie & Fitch ANF-N: “Perfect Butt Leggings;” “Perfect Butt Boyfriend” pants; “Cute Butt Leggings.” But who wants to stare at someone's butt all day when you can have more fun investing in Abercrombie's stock? Shares of the company, known for its sexy models, rose after third-quarter profit easily topped expectations on cost cuts, even as sales fell..
     
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