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Monthly Archives: November 2010

World Expert On Economy Says Growth Has Slowed

Posted: November 18, 2010 at 6:13 am

The Organization For Economic Co-Operation And Development (OECD) says the world's GDP is not growing at the rate it expected just months ago, and that the problem will persist. The solution to the trouble ...
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India Micro-Credit Market Starts To Collapse

Posted: November 18, 2010 at 5:44 am

Lend tens of thousands of poor people who do not have normal access to modest sums of money, and do it during a recession, then hope to get the money ...
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Americans Don’t Understand The Deficit

Posted: November 18, 2010 at 5:13 am

The deficit may be one of the most important issues which faces Americans today and that may continue for several years. A new poll by the Wall Street Journal and NBC ...
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The Ten Products and Commodities Which Have Hit All-Time Highs

Posted: November 18, 2010 at 4:44 am

Possibly the most critical debate at the moment in the global economy is whether central banks should fight inflation or deflation. On its face, inflation appears to be the lesser ...
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Media Digest 11/18/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 18, 2010 at 4:11 am

The GM IPO will be the largest eve.r (Reuters) Regulators indicated banks may face large write-offs on mortgages. (Reuters) Demand for the Chevy Volt has risen quickly. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: ...
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Light Cracks in NetApp Road (NTAP)

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 4:17 pm

NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) was all the buzz during the tech M&A boom of late-Summer.  The storage giant reported that its profit gained over 70%, beating estimates.  Non-GAAP earnings were ...
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The Good, The Bad, And The Insignificant: The Fed Will Maintain QE2 Plan, Like It Always Said It Would

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 4:08 pm

Verdict: Good There is no turning back now. The Federal Reserve plans to implement QE2 like it already said it would do two weeks ago. But, Ben Bernanke has proven ...
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Donald Trump For President?

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 2:13 pm

The world of business and politics has had very few times where the two were as against each other as they are today.  Who will run under the Republican ticket ...
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McDonald’s Price Hikes in China: Warning to U.S.? (MCD, YUM, SBUX, PEP)

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 1:25 pm

For years now, The Economist has computed its Big Mac index, a measure of purchasing power parity in the countries in which Big Macs from McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) are ...
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International Smoking on the Decline? (PM, MO)

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 12:51 pm

Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) is presenting at the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference in New York.  An SEC filing shows that Chairman & CEO Louis Camilleri ...
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Amazon Goes Crazy For Hollywood

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 12:37 pm

Amazon.com Inc.  (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping to take the guesswork out of making hit movies. According to the Wall Street Journal, the world's largest Internet retailer is setting up a ...
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Opening Up Irish Bank & Country Books (IRE, AIB, IRL)

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 11:28 am

The end of this week and next week will be an interesting period for the Irish banks and for the country of Ireland.  Officials from the European Union, the European ...
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Intel’s VC Funding Continues (INTC, VMW, CLWR, LOGM, BIDU)

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 10:41 am

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is actively investing in new technology companies again.  Its venture unit is Intel Capital, and the unit just announced late-Tuesday a series of new fresh investments ...
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Warner Music Out of Tune

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 10:22 am

The recorded music business has been getting beaten up for the last decade or so, starting with the original release of Napster in the late 1990s. Music industry executives decided ...
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Another Reason Not To Buy A Nissan: New Car Ratings Out

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 10:15 am

The new performance scorecard from Truecar.com which it describes as how it "measures the overall performance of a brand or manufacturer based on pricing, sales, incentives, customer loyalty, market share, ...
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