No telling how this will end up playing out, but we're sure Apple isn't going to give up its little cash-cow ecosystem without a fight.

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With no recovery in industrial earning power in sight and technology in the throes of its inventory correction, corporate earnings just aren't going up this year.

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New Century, which said late Thursday it wasn't going to make any more loans and was still struggling to line up support among its bankers, teetered even closer to possible bankruptcy Friday and could be vulnerable to an asset sale.

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