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The following is an excerpt from the NBC News wire services | October 29, 2012 | msnbc.com |
Updated at 6:30 p.m. ET: For the first time since the Great Blizzard of 1888, U.S. stock markets will be closed for two consecutive days due to weather.
The decision to close financial markets ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Ian Salisbury | October 19, 2012 | Smartmoney.com |
Goldman Sachs is known for its emerging-markets acumen. But that doesn’t seem to have helped its effort to peddle mutual funds targeting these stocks.
On Thursday, the company which coined the term “BRIC” as an acronym for ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from WSJ.com | October 23, 2012 |
Guitar teacher Erich Andreas works from a basement studio in Nashville, Tenn. His classroom, though, is the world itself.
Across one hour, Mr. Andreas may be giving free video lessons to up to 1,500 people who stream his yourguitarsage.com broadcasts ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from ANDREW BARY | October 20, 2012 | Barrons.com |
Annie's has carved out a niche with popular natural and organic foods, like its signature macaroni and cheese. But its shares, which have more than doubled since the company's initial public offering in March, have a ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Mike Isaac | October 20, 2012 | allthingsd.com |
Like any young start-up, the early days of Facebook were thin and scrappy. Its very first server back in 2004 cost $85 to rent. They didn’t spend more than they had in the bank. They were ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Richard A. Posner | October 15, 2012 | Slate.com |
How to fix our broken system for stimulating invention.
The recent wave of attention to patent litigation has focused on struggles between technology giants, like Apple and Google, but the problems with our patent system, which ... Read More
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The following is excerpt from RYAN VLASTELICA | October 14, 2012 | Thefiscaltimes.com |
Earnings season is heating up, but investors' feet are getting cold. Central bank-fueled gains took markets within reach of five-year highs in September, but now U.S. stock market participants are shifting their focus back to corporate outlooks, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from rt.com | October 12, 2012 |
Russian equities will likely open higher Friday amid improved investor sentiment in Europe and rising oil prices.
Russian stocks closed higher Thursday as investors digested the S&P downgrade of Spain’s sovereign credit rating and improved US jobs data. The MICEX ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from MATT JARZEMSKY | October 10, 2012 | WSJ.com |
NEW YORK—U.S. stocks slumped, sending the Dow industrials toward a second-straight triple-digit drop, as outlooks from industrial, commodity and energy heavyweights added to concerns about a global economic slowdown.
AA -4.60% The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from BRETT ARENDS | September 25, 2012 | Smartmoney.com |
Some years ago, the money-management industry tried to engineer a single investment solution that could be applied to "everybody" on Main Street and came up with the idea of the "target date" mutual fund. These funds ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Associated Press | October 4, 2012 | Time.com |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Big Bird is endangered. Jim Lehrer lost control. And Mitt Romney crushed President Barack Obama.
Those were the judgments rendered across Twitter and Facebook Wednesday during the first debate of the 2012 presidential contest. ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Alexei Oreskovic | October 1, 2012 | Reuters.com |
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc, stung by doubts that advertising on the social network delivers enough bang for the buck, is preparing to unveil data to counter its critics and show that "clicks," the current metric of ... Read More
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