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The University of Phoenix, owned by Apollo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL), reported first fiscal quarter revenue of $1.33 billion and EPS of $1.61, both higher than expectations of $1.26 billion in...
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Tim Geithner wants the public, and Congress to know that the US is virtually out of money. His letter to Harry Reid: January 6, 2011 The Honorable Harry Reid Majority Leader United States...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency’s appeals board has essentially canceled permits that would have allowed Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-A) to operate a drillship in the Chukchi and...
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The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, BOEMRE, has notified 13 companies that they will be able to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico without needing to submit new...
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The determination of foreign governments to protect their national technology franchises or censor information that originates outside their borders could limit the growth prospects of Skype,...
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It would be difficult to come up with a more polarizing figure than departing director of the President’s National Economic Council, Larry Summers. Never known for his diplomatic skills, Summers...
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As the year comes to a close, consumers are not just quietly confident that better times lie ahead. They are getting downright giddy. Household purchases rose 0.4% gain in November, its fifth...
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President Obama hosted 20 CEOs from major corporations in Washington. Many of the chief executives wanted to speak about trade policy and taxes. The president wanted to talk about jobs. He had no...
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Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) and The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) are soaring on ahead of an expected approval vote for the Irish budget full of austerity measures and full of spending cuts. The...
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As you are probably aware, Wikileaks has had its website closed down in the U.S. Amazon closed the .org and .com sites after DNS attacks and after requests for it to stop hosting the site. It...
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The Deficit Panel has failed to reach a super-majority that would be enough to trigger a vote in Congress. That is the bad news, but frankly we already expected this. The good news is that there...
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The mayor and residents of St. Louis will not like this, but the city is the most crime-ridden in the United States. This may shock some, as most people would have guessed Detroit, or Cleveland. ...
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Want to see just how much the saving of Ireland added to the key ADRs today? Look no further than Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB), The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE), and The New Ireland Fund, Inc....
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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 in 2012 is still unknown. There is...
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The Federal Reserve seemed to abandon its independence at the start of the credit crisis. Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury chief Henry Paulson worked arm-in-arm to combat a collapse in the US bank...
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