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CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is going to make it cheaper for traders to trade energy and metals futures, something which could make it easier and cheaper for traders, speculators, and investors to push...
Private equity firms are bad and evil because they fire workers to juice profits for billionaires who get to pay low tax rates!  Is that the right logic?  What if you found out that private equity...
The social media hype around the Facebook IPO is driving many shares in the sector of online social media.  Some of the Halo-effect may not even be deserved, and this has all the ingredients of...
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is launching a new Sports Collectibles Store and it is claiming to offer more than 2 million unique collectibles from major sports leagues and sporting events.  While...
Facebook, Inc. has now filed its paperwork with the SEC which will allow the social networking giant to conduct an initial public offering.  It should be no real surprise that financial terms were...
The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) may have been a dead stock (or ADR) by most counts.  The recapitalization and dilution process here has been almost as uncanny as the bailouts that were given to...
Almost all investments rise and fall in price through time, and the same is true over the value of sports collectibles and baseball cards.  The ‘investing’ rule in sports collectibles that has...
Facebook is now rumored to be filing its IPO paperwork as soon as next week.  The ‘rumor’ is coming out of a report from the Wall Street Journal that Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) and/or Goldman...
The U.S. is still growing despite all of the world’s troubles and despite the currency fluctuations.  The Commerce Department’s  preliminary reading on Gross Domestic Product showed to have...
It was just on January 5 that we called the news on J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP)… Bad News Is Good News!  Our take was that the company big drop was a chance for investors to get in ahead...
The Federal Reserve has no more room cut interest rates.  About all it can do is to take the discount rate lower than the 0.75% but the target rate of 0.00% to 0.25% for Fed Funds is already a...
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is making a series of management changes today.  While this is not the CEO level of the whole company, CEO Mike Duke noted, “Current Sam’s Club President and...
Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers.  The largest annual...
Has J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) managed to help further turn banks around in 2012?  The sector which had no friends in 2011 is now actually the top bill in the DJIA as Bank of America...
The initial public offering market  in 2012 is likely to be much stronger than many anticipate. Despite the lingering uncertainty and the underperformance of many popular IPOs in 2011, this year may...