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China's Massive Counterfeiting Market May Never Be The Same After Major...
Act fast to get those knock-off bags, because they might not be available for much longer. Chinese and U.S. authorities have collaborated for the first time to shut down a major counterfeiting...
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Occupy Wall Street's Plan To Forgive Distressed Consumer Debt May Have A Tax...
Occupy Wall Street spin-off Rolling Jubilee has received a good amount of attention in the last few weeks.The plan, which involves crowd-sourcing funds to buy up distressed consumer debt, has earned...
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STOCKS MAKE A COMEBACK: Here's What You Need To Know (DIA, SPY, QQQ, HPQ, BBY)
Markets got slammed mid-day after Ben Bernanke spoke. But they erased most of their losses. However, a couple of big stocks still got punished today.First the scoreboard:Dow: 12,788, -7.4, -0.0...
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Sorry, But You Have To Look At This Chart Of Housing Starts Going Totally...
One more time. Let's just gawk at the crazy acceleration of housing starts this month.Remember, this is the annualized pace of new homes being built. We were once told a story about how there were so...
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How Iraq Is Rapidly Becoming One Of The Biggest Oil Players In The World
We wanted to follow up our discussion on how the U.S. invasion of Iraq has affected oil production there with how that production boost could shake oil markets.The takeaway: the Saudis could be...
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We Are In The Third Stage Of The 5 Stages Of Fiscal Cliff Grief
While there are other issues investors are grappling with—such as increasing tensions in the Middle East, meager prospects for earnings growth, and the return to recession in Europe after only three...
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Top Nomura Economist Is Skeptical Of Fiscal Cliff Progress — And There's Good...
The market has been rallying since Friday afternoon, when politicians gave off noises that there was a nice thaw in the Fiscal Cliff negotiations.But not everyone is buying into the "easy deal"...
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The 45 Stocks Hedge Fund Managers Love The Most
Factset has just released its quarterly report on the stock holdings of the nation's 50 largest hedge funds.On the whole, the 50 largest hedge funds increased their exposure to stocks by 3 percent,...
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JAPANESE EXPORTS PLUNGE
Japan's October trade balance report is out.Exports fell 6.5 percent, which was much worse than the 4.9 percent decline expected by economists.Exports to China plunged 11.6 percent. Exports to Europe...
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A Major Crisis Indicator Just Hit Its Highest Level Ever
When one thinks of America, the word "savings" is likely the last thing to come into a person's head, for the simple reason that the vast majority of Americans don't save: recall that in September the...
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FAIL: Hostess And Bakers Union Talks Break Down In Mediation
Hostess and the bakers' union have failed to make a deal in mediation.A labor strike recently ended with the company shutting down.18,500 jobs are at stake, 5,000 of which belong to the bakers...
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16 Financial Shenanigans That Got Companies Into Tons Of Trouble
Accounting improprieties, disclosure failures, and outright misrepresentations have gotten companies into trouble since the beginning of business.These are the accusations that Hewlett-Packard has made...
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Disney's CEO Is Selling His Company's Stock And Buying Apple (DIS, AAPL)
On Monday, Disney CEO Bob Iger bought $1 million worth of Apple shares, an SEC filing revealed. He's on Apple's board of directors.That's really interesting, because Iger exercised a million options on...
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8 Big Ways China's Policies Screw Its Citizens
China is said to have 500 riots, collective protests, and strikes a day. According to Minxin Pei, this has quadrupled from a decade ago.Much of this discontent stems from Chinese policies that...
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FAIL: Euro Finance Ministers' Meeting Ends With No Greek Package
After 11 hours of talks, euro area finance ministers ended their meeting with no debt-reduction package for Greece, reports Bloomberg.However, they "made progress in identifying a consistent package of...
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And There Goes The Euro...
A few minutes ago, Europe's finance ministers concluded an 11 hour meeting with no Greek debt-reduction package.Apparently, markets were expecting something different.Check out the euro's insta-plunge...
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China's Anti-Japan Sentiment Is Doing Serious Damage To Japan's Economy
Every once in a while, China and Japan get into a loud political dispute over a couple of islands in which leads to boycotts of each other's goods."We think that the impact has been worse than previous...
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Markets In Europe Go Nowhere After Greek Debt Talks Go Nowhere
Markets are down slightly across Europe.England's FTSE 100 is down 0.1%.France's CAC 40 is down 0.3%.Germany's DAX is flat.Spain's IBEX isdown 0.5%.Italy's FTSE MIB is flat.After 11 hours of talks,...
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How Stocks Trade Around Thanksgiving Day
Bespoke Investment Group compiled the daily returns of the S&P 500 on the Wednesday before and the Friday and Monday after Thanksgiving.Wednesday tends to be good and Monday tends to be bad.Here's...
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Every Major 2012 Euro Event In One Long Chart
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