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The following is an excerpt from Andrew Snyder | October 26, 2011 | resourceinvestor.com
Chances are, you've never heard of a company named Vitol. It rarely makes a headline, yet it plays a larger role in the oil market than Exxon, and its annual sales last year were twice as strong as ... Read More
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Excerpt from Jonathan Steams and Helene Fouquet | October 27, 2011 | bloomberg.com |
French President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao as European policy makers seek to build support for an enlarged rescue fund designed to resolve the region’s sovereign-debt crisis.
Hu hopes that the measures will help ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Tyler Lee | October 27, 2011 8:14 PDT | ubergizmo.com |
Just yesterday we reported on Sprint’s Q3 results, which by all accounts seemed to be rather optimistic in nature despite a loss of $301 million. This was made up by an increase of 2% ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Ben Traynor | October 27, 2011 | resourceinvestor.com
The gold price rose to $1,725 per ounce Thursday lunchtime in London – 5.1% above where it started the week – following a mid-morning dip.
Silver prices continued to see-saw around $33.50 per ounce – 6.7% up for ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Perthnow.com.au | October 27, 2011 | AAP
Weighing 1012kg, it is more than a tonne of 99.99 per cent pure gold worth more than $53.5 million.
The giant coin is 80cm wide, 12cm deep, took 18 months to create and features a bounding red kangaroo on ... Read More
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Barbed wire is composed of two zinc-coated steel strands twisted together with twisted barbs spaced regularly along them. The need for barbed wire arose in the 19th century as the American frontier moved westward into the Great Plains and traditional fence materials—wooden rails and stone—became scarce and expensive. Of the ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Laura Lallos | October 25, 2011 5:33 AM ET | money.cnn.com
(MONEY Magazine) -- Sam Stewart made his name as a savvy small-company stock investor, and the firm he founded, Wasatch Advisors, shares this reputation.
Stewart's Wasatch World Innovators Fund (WAGTX), though, is more of an ... Read More
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In 1959, Edward E. Carlson, then president of Western International Hotels, sketched his vision of an iconic structure on a coffee house placemat.
Inspired by the Stuttgart Tower in Germany, Carlson’s space-age image was to be the focus of the futuristic 1962 World's Fair in Seattle, whose theme was to be ... Read More
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"Obama Care Explained"
Let me get this straight . . . ...
We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't,
Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor,
but provides for 16,000 new IRS ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: thedailybeast.com
From one media mogul to another: CNN Founder Ted Turner has no sympathy for Rupert Murdoch, saying the News Corp. titan is not “above the law” and should step down.
To Watch Video please visit: thedailybeast.com ... Read More
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The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist and pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The foundation describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Susanna Kim | October 26, 2011 | abcnews.go.com
The income of the richest 1 percent in the U.S. soared 275 percent from 1979 to 2007, but the bottom 20 percent grew by just 18 percent, new government data shows.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Rosa Golijan | gadgetbox.msnbc.com | October 26, 2011 |
The Droid RAZR — an Android device which Motorola Mobility president Sanjay Jha declared to be the world's thinnest smartphone — will become available for pre-order on Thursday.
The Droid RAZR will be available through Verizon Wireless ... Read More
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The following excerpt comes from: foxbusiness.com | October 25, 2011 | MarketWatch|
Crude-oil futures settled at a 12-week high Tuesday, using the previous session’s steep gains as a springboard for further advances even in the face of broad market weakness.
Crude for December delivery added $1.90, or 2.1 percent, to end at ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: "The Opinion Pages" at nytimes.com | Updated October 25, 2011 02:24 PM
Amazon is getting a lot of heat these days over its attempts to push its way into the hearts and minds of readers, writers and the larger book culture -- even comic books. Indeed, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt received from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/wall-street-protest-continues-for-third-day/2011/09/19/gIQAKqbffK_gallery.html#photo=1
The movement, which started Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange, has spread to cities around the world.
Iranian women gather for a demonstration in support of the Occupy Wall Street ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from By J.J. McCorvey | @jmccorvey | From the October 2011 issue of Inc. magazine
Great leaders are often described as having a certain magnetism. But according to new research, that special something could have less to do with charisma than with a tendency to ... Read More
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The host of CNBC’s “Street Signs” talks with the Opportunist’s Managing Editor Leslie Stone about his path to a career in broadcast journalism, his thoughts about the housing bubble and what he thinks about the mass protests around the country.
Brian Sullivan got his start as a temp on a ... Read More
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2004: $21/Share 2011: $80.79/Share
WellPoint, Inc. was formed in 2004 when WellPoint Health Networks Inc. and Anthem, Inc. merged to become the nation’s leading health benefits company.
WellPoint, Inc. is the largest health benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States. Through its ... Read More
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By Warren Kaplan
The Stock Option Writer
© Warren Kaplan 2011
October 25, 2011
This is a medical products company located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of our readers asked me to look into the company and to come up with an option writing strategy. I did not research the company as I let my ... Read More
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