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Do not tell Americans that they should worry about the deficit or the battle over the debt ceiling. Their concerns are much closer to home. They view jobs as a...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has enjoyed massive growth over the last decade. It has overcome a near-death experience and transformed itself into the second largest company by market capitalization. ...
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In the 1990s, Kevin Mitnick was the most wanted cyber-criminal in the world. These days, Mitnick is wanted for another reason — his expertise.Demand for Mitnick’s services as security...
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We may have just witnessed an oversold bounce in the stock market, or we may be in for more days of recovery. The markets are flirting with six weeks of negative performance and one day is not...
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It is no secret that health care insurance and health care service providers are going to continue to consolidate in the months or years ahead. We have already seen UnitedHealth Group, Inc. (NYSE:...
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Just when things look like they couldn’t get any worse for Greece comes word that the Southern European nation grew at a mere 0.2% in the first three months of the year. That is far worse than...
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Nokia was badly hurt by poor earnings and rumors of a takeovers. CVS suffered from a report by Fox Business the organized crime has hurt retail margins. EMC division RSA suffers major hack data...
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Maybe it was a really bad IPO. Maybe you can blame the constant accounting fiction by public and state-owned companies. Maybe it is the nation’s effort to kill growth by fighting inflation. Or...
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Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million...
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Updated throughout the day.GM (NYSE: GM) may sell its European Opel operations (Reuters)Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will be bought by Samsung (various)Securities regulators are reviewing transactions between...
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These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning.American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Started as Buy at...
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The race to be IMF chief has come down to two candidates. The favorite is France’s finance minister, Christine Lagarde. She has been deeply involved in the EU bailouts of Greece and Portugal and is...
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Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) may be buying National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM) and the tech demand may still be strong for chips. Unfortunately, the company just warned investors...
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Sometimes press releases have the strangest things in them. Many individuals complain about corporate welfare, but we are curious to know if shareholders actually care about when the companies they...
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The recession pretty much killed blank check companies and special purpose acquisition companies (or SPACs). After more than two years of an equity market recovery, we have started to see periodic...
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