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The world’s largest steelmaker is giving up on stainless steel. ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) has announced that it plans to go through with a plan it began discussing during the summer that would...
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Did you hear? Greece has problems. They are bad enough that S&P has threatened a sovereign downgrade on the debt of Greece. Just one problem here, or more than one. This call is about as...
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It is not every day that you see foreign nations register bond offerings with the SEC for sale in the United States. This morning we saw two S-B filings come literally about 58 seconds of each...
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PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) has a long history of operating in Russia. It is about to get much deeper into the country. This morning came the announcement that PepsiCo is going to acquire...
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Just two months ago Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) revealed that it had made a non-binding offer of $4.6 billion to acquire South Africa’s Massmart Holdings Ltd. Almost immediately resistance...
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Wednesday was a strong day for U.S. stocks as at least some fears are waning on overseas pressure. South Korea rallied as the skirmish between the two Koreas did not escalate and as trading...
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War and the fear of war create uncertainty for financial markets. If there is one place in the world that you can count on uncertainty rising from throughout the years it is North Korea and South...
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Futurists are an odd lot. Generally, they are authors, scientists, consultants and economists. What many people don’t know is that investors follow this philosophy as well. Their goal is to...
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Did retail investors catch the top of the market? Many individual investors missed the huge market gains from the lows in early 2009 and now many are playing catch-up. Fresh data from Morningstar...
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The rare earth oxide, rare earth element, and rare earth minerals segment is continuing to see a surge. Some could be tied to the expectations of a new ETF driving ownership interest up, but most...
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The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TRV) is the Dow Jones Industrial Average component which many investors manage to overlook or forget about it being a DJIA member. The insurance giant has...
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In its first fiscal quarter of 2011, ending June 30, 2010, India posted GDP growth of 8.8%, the country’s highest growth rate in 3 years. Manufacturing grew a whopping 12.4%, compared with 3.8%...
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There are still many companies waiting to come public via initial public offerings in 2010 with just under 2 full months until the end of the year. We wanted to review some of the top performers of...
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The United Nations General Assembly “adopted a resolution calling for the lifting of the decades-old economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba in the...
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Infosys Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: INFY) is now a $40 billion IT-outsourcing outfit. The company has reported Q2 earnings at $0.65 EPS versus Thomson Reuters estimates of $0.61; Revenues were up...
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