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• Consumer Savings During Times Of Economic Downturn

  BNET - 2009-05-12

  The upshot is that there is a "New normal" looming. Rather than the cheery 3.4% real GDP growth that we have seen globally in recent years, we will return to growth, but at a considerably lower level. How low? With consumers trying to repair their broken balance sheets - too...

  Tags: American Express Co., Upshot, Balance Sheets, Real Estate, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Business Operations

• Investors Liked What They Saw in Simcere's Q3 Report

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-06

  ChinaBio Today submits: Simcere Pharmaceutical Group SCR released very positive unaudited financial results for its third quarter. At the same time, the company said it would begin a $50 million share buyback. At the end of the quarter, Simcere reported cash and short-term investments of 831 million RMB ($122.4...

  Tags: Shareholder, Pharmaceutical Company, Buyback, Investor, Seeking Alpha, Simcere, ChinaBio Today, Upshot, IPO, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, China

• The Pricing Spread End Game.

  - 2008-02-01

  Maker/taker spreads have collapsed. While exchanges and ECNs have pushed their rebates higher over the past several months to attract limit-order traders, their liquidity-taker charges hit a Securities and Exchange Commission-imposed ceiling for access fees at 30 cents per 100 shares. The...

  Tags: FINANCE, game, Investment, liquidity, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pricing, revenue, security, upshot

• The Pricing Spread End Game

  - 2008-02-01

  Maker/taker spreads have collapsed. While exchanges and ECNs have pushed their rebates higher over the past several months to attract limit-order traders, their liquidity-taker charges hit a Securities and Exchange Commission-imposed ceiling for access fees at 30 cents per 100 shares. The upshot is that spreads have decreased...

  Tags: FINANCE, game, Investment, liquidity, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pricing, upshot

• Some taxpayers stand to face delays

  - 2008-01-18

  THE LEGISLATIVE FIX that Congress made to keep the alternative minimum tax from spreading to millions of middle- and upper-income taxpayers is expected to create delays in processing returns and refunds for more than three million early filers who claim certain tax credits. The upshot is that...

  Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, upshot

• Uganda: Dammed if you do, damned if you don't

  - 2007-10-01

  The green light has finally been given to a controversial multi-million dollar hydro-electric dam project on the River Nile. But, Stuart Price asks, will it be the silver bullet to Uganda's stifling power shortages, or will it leave the country precariously exposed to the consequences of climate change? ...

  Tags: FINANCE, Uganda, upshot, World Bank

• Spirits, markets get a lift

  - 2007-09-19

  WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve's unanimous decision to slash a key interest rate Tuesday is a dramatic statement that the central bank will do whatever it takes to prevent turmoil in the financial markets and a steep downturn in the housing sector from pulling the country into recession. ...

  Tags: bank, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, inflation, upshot

• Tainted system at fault --not Raiders, Russell

  - 2007-08-16

  EVERYBODY'S looking for somebody to blame regarding the JaMarcus Russell holdout, and with Russell now looking as if he may not take the field in 2007 even if he does sign, the lynching parties are scouring behind every rock looking for bad guys. The Raiders and those...

  Tags: FINANCE, financial, league, NFL, upshot

• Liquidity: what it is and why it matters.

  - 2007-07-17

  'Liquidity' isn't just techno-babble. It matters - and it can be measured. Chris Dillow "It's a liquidity-driven rally." This is the cliche of many market pundits. However, just because something is said by a pompous oaf does not make it wrong. Rises in global...

  Tags: bond, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Investment, liquidity, upshot

• Will the Hybrid Fly? The Big Board has to please both the Buyside and the Floor

  - 2006-01-01

  The buyside wants an ECN. The traders on the floor want an electronic replica of the floor. The New York Stock Exchange is trying to please both. Will the hybrid' fly? Will it pass muster with the Securities and Exchange Commission? And, if so, will the buyside use it? ...

  Tags: board, FINANCE, Investment, liquidity, NYSE Euronext, parity, SEC, trader, upshot