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The following is an excerpt from Foxbusiness.com | December 29, 2011 | Reuters |
Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD: 32.90, -0.43, -1.29%) on Thursday identified 79 of the 100 to 120 Sears and Kmart stores it said earlier this week it would close, with the list split almost evenly between the two ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jim Mctague | December 24, 2011 | Barrons.com |
T-time should become a hot U.S. investment topic, now that Europe has decided to go from T+3 to T+2 in 2014.
T stands for "transaction." Most stock trades in the U.S. now settle in three days, or ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Daniel Tovrov | December 29, 2011 | ibtimes.com |
By this point, almost anyone worth following is already on Twitter, including politicians, celebrities, countries, news outlets and Rebecca Black.
But as 2012 quickly approaches, there are still those who are either new to Twitter, are using ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Laura Rowley | First Published on November 2, 2011 | DailyFinance.com |
Like many Americans, Al Checchi is fed up with Wall Street. But the 63-year-old isn't joining the protestors at Occupy Wall Street. Checchi is a multimillionaire. His beef is with the institutions that ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Devin Dwyer | December 28, 2011 | abcnews.go.com |
President Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden will each hold a virtual huddle with grassroots supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire on the states’ respective caucus and primary nights next month, campaign officials say.
On Jan. 3, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Alan Boyle | December 27, 2011 | msnbc.com |
The past year brought us the supercomputer that trounced flesh-and-blood champions on the "Jeopardy" TV show ... genetic discoveries that showed us the tangles in humanity's family tree ... a tsunami that shouldn't have been as ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Suzanne McGee | December 22, 2011 | Thefiscaltimes.com |
Whatever the economy fails to deliver in the way of higher earnings per share in the fourth quarter, companies may be generating themselves simply by using some of the surplus cash on their balance sheets to ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: The Associated Press | December 27, 2011 | Nytimes.com |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday declined to label China a currency manipulator after seeing recent increases in the value of the renminbi compared with the dollar.
The decision angered some manufacturing groups, which ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from bbc.co.uk | December 27, 2011 |
A man is being sued for keeping Twitter followers that he attracted while working for a US mobile news website.
Noah Kravitz tweeted for Phonedog as @Phonedog_Noah, but later changed his username when he left the company - taking 17,000 ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from David Axe | December 27, 2011 | Wired.com |
The military’s latest secret assessment of China’s rapidly modernizing submarines has good news and bad news for the U.S. Navy. On one hand, the roughly 60 submarines in the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) fleet are ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: Erika Morphy | December 26, 2011 | Forbes.com |
IBM Benchmark’s initial online retail figures are in for Christmas Day, and even for mobile devotees they are a stunner.
The iPad accounted for 7% of all online sales on Christmas Day—meaning that 7% of all purchases ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Stempel in New York | December 27, 2011 | Huffingtonpost.com |
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed an emergency request to put its securities fraud lawsuit against Citigroup Inc on hold, saying a failure to delay the case would derail its proposed settlement with ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Zoe Fox | December 26, 2011 | CNN.com |
(Mashable) -- Hacker group Anonymous began its promised week of Christmas hacks, assaulting a long list of targets. The first Anonymous hack resulted in stolen emails and credit card data from Stratfor, an Austin-based think tank ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: Jonathan Russell | December 26, 2011 | telegraph.co.uk |
The highlight of the promotional offer for the 151 lucky winners is "dinner for two at Tiffany's 5th Avenue store followed by a personal shopping experience and a £1,000 Tiffany's gift card".
The multi-million pound promotion appears ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: Russell Pearlmran | December 22, 2011 | Smartmoney.com |
These days, it's easy to be downbeat about the U.S. economy. Anyone watching the news knows that consumers say they are as depressed as they've ever been. In cities around the country, thousands of people have ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Russell Pearlmran | December 22, 2011 | Smartmoney.com |
Google Inc.'s newest push into online travel has begun to roil the industry, the latest example of the company extending its market power into increasingly diverse aspects of economic life.
Competitors say Google is abusing its power ... Read More
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A Conversation with Chester “Chet” Paulson
The legendary investment-banker and founder of Paulson Investment Co. in Portland, Ore., talks with the Opportunist’s Managing Editor Leslie Stone about his 40-year career, his motto for success and why he’s optimistic about the U.S. economy.
Paulson Investment Company, Inc. is a full-service brokerage firm engaged ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: Edmund Blair and Marwa Awad | December 23, 2011 | Read more at Reuters |
Thousands of Egyptians rallied in Cairo and other cities Friday to demand the military rulers hand over power. Seventeen people have been killed during Egypt’s riots in suspected incidents of ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt Michael J. De La Merced | December 23, 2011 | Nytimes.com | Picture on left:Mark Pincus, left, chief of Zynga, and Andrew Mason, chief of Groupon |
This holiday season, investors seem to prefer real deals to virtual sheep.
It’s been several weeks since Groupon and Zynga ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Ivan Misner | December 23, 2011 | Entrepreneur.com |
Which types of networking are most successful? A recent survey of 12,000 business people around the world confirmed some of my hunches but produced some surprising results, as well.
As part of research for a book, my ... Read More
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