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Here Are The Key Market Moving Events For Tuesday, February 14, 2012 (HST,...
Tuesday heats up after a slow Monday, with more than a dozen earnings announcements and a slew of economic releases. Data will flow heavily from Europe and the U.S., with little out of Asia. Here's...
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STUDY: Businesses Who Employ Undocumented Workers Do Better
Employers suffer a distinct economic disadvantage if they choose not to employ undocumented workers, especially when their competitors continue to do so, according to researchers at the Atlanta...
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Wall Street's Love Letter To China's 'Princeling'
The future leader of China, Xi Jinping, is visiting the U.S. this week. Behind closed doors, tense discussions will be had around issues from the Pentagon's renewed focus on 'force projection' in the...
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The World's Top Economists Reveal Their Predictions For 2012
WSJ is out with a new survey of economists, querying them on everything from QE3 to a Eurobreakup to 2012 GDP. You can play with the results in a fun, interactive manner here. Here are some key...
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Markets Slip In Asia After Moody's Downgrades Europe
Stock markets across Asia are pulling back slightly early in the trading session. Japan's Nikkei is down 0.2%. Korea's Kospi is flat. Australia's S&P/ASX is down 0.3%. Shortly after markets closed...
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Wimpy Publishers Worried About Being Criticized For Buying Amanda Knox's Book
Amanda Knox, the American who was finally freed from an Italian prison a few months ago after her murder conviction was overturned, is selling a book about her story. Publishers are in a frenzy to buy...
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The Most Surprising Prediction From Economists For 2012
From the WSJ's latest survey of top economists, this result surprised us more than anything else. We say this is really surprising, since just about everything we've seen from sell-side research is...
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If Republicans Are So Great For Business, Why Does Silicon Valley Vote For...
One contention of the Republican party is that Democrats don't understand business and are bad for business. GOP front-runner Mitt Romney has basically built his entire campaign on the theory that he...
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EXOTIC DANCER: I Used To Work At Lehman Brothers, Now I'm A Stripper
London news site Here Is The City has an exciting treat to follow—the blog is running "episodes" of the tale of 'Amazing Grace,' a former salesperson at Lehman Brothers who became an exotic dancer....
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STOCKS MAKE HUGE COMEBACK AND SURGE: Here's What You Need To Know (DIA, SPY,...
Some good U.S. economic data helped fuel a monster rally in stocks. First, the scoreboard: Dow: 12,904.0, +123.1, +0.9%S&P 500: 1,358.0, +14.8, +1.1%NASDAQ: 2,959.8, +44.0, +1.5% And now, the top...
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Here's Why Whitney Tilson's 13-F Didn't Have Netflix In It When It Came Out
We thought it was a little strange when Whitney Tilson and Glenn Tongue's hedge fund T2 Partners' latest 13F came out earlier this week and Netflix wasn't included. We sent the hedge fund manager an...
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Hey, 99%! Legendary Investor John Bogle Has Your Back
The 99 Percent has a new ally from the financial sector—John Bogle, a legendary investor who founded the Vanguard Group and is now President of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. Admittedly,...
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PRESENTING: The 'Jeremy Lin-Dex'
After graduating from Harvard with a 3.1 GPA, New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin seemed more likely to join the World Bank than the NBA.As Hamza Ahsan of Bleacher Report points out, Lin “did not...
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A Great Reminder Of Why Exchange Traded Funds Can Be A Rip-Off
We just got back from spending some time at Bloomberg Portfolio Manager Mash-Up Conference this afternoon. On a panel focused on alternative assets, Frank Holmes, CIO at U.S. Global Investors, made a...
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PLAYBOY: We Read It For The Paul Krugman Articles
In case you missed it, the March issue of Playboy magazine has an exclusive interview with Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. You can read it on Playboy.com. Please follow Clusterstock on...
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Citigroup Whistleblower: We Were Being Beat Up To Issue Good Quality Reports...
The extent of legal troubles for banks surrounding loans and mortgages are never ending—the details behind a $158 million Citigroup settlement over its lending practices are out, via Bloomberg....
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Government Spending Is Down, But These 4 Charts Show One Area Where Public...
As we've mentioned before, the decline in government spending under the Obama Administration is a seriously under-appreciated fact. But even despite the decline in spending, there is one area where...
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Wanted: People Who Know How To Value An ETF
Business Insider was at Bloomberg Link's Portfolio Manager Mash-Up Conference today and our ears perked up when panelists mentioned something that they would probably need analysts to be able to to do...
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Tim Geithner, The GOP Will Have None Of Your Smirking Thank You Very Much
The Wall Street Journal's Damian Paletta has an amusing post about Tim Geithner drawing GOP ire after providing rather uninhibited testimony about the budget. In a testy exchange over the perceived...
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Here's How You Can Use Game Theory To Make Money In The Markets
Last week, in Using Game Theory to Model Market Uncertainty, I covered what all traders should understand about game theory in order to protect themselves. Today I’ll address what a quant trader...
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