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- Your investments and the economy.(Business)
- Byline: Michael Sean Comerford mcomerford@@dailyherald.com Why is the S&P near a record and the Nasdaq still struggling? "For one thing, you have a heavy presence of tech on the Nasdaq versus the (Standard & Poor's 500 index). Tech was more...
- Research articles 2007-05-27
- IT sector rides investment wave.
- Byline: Ben Woodhead May 02, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Many Australian technology funds are enjoying strong returns, as companies elect to upgrade their IT systems. The Global Technology Fund of Goldman Sachs JBWere posted a return of...
- Research articles 2006-05-02
- Regulation: The Nine Billion Dollar Manacle - The Markets In Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), Also Known As The Investment Services Directive #2, Promises True Trading Transparency But At A Cost Akin To That Of Dealing With Y2K Problems.
- What is it? MiFID targets dealings in the investment markets, and is intended to introduce full transparency in all trading in equities. The commission is considering and extension of the regime to bonds and derivatives. Who dreamed it up? ...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- The Win-at-All-Costs President
- Here are two stories about young "Georgie" Bush that you may not have heard, but which are worth recounting as he travels the globe as a world leader. As a boy in Maine, he was the oldest of many cousins, and would set the rules for summer games at...
- Research articles 2005-02-23
- Detroit Free Press Susan Tompor column.
- By Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 25--WARY WALL STREET KEEPS CAREFUL EYES ON CENTRAL BANK: Hear anybody chat up stocks lately? Yeah, right. Nobody's talking stocks. Investors pretty much have been sitting tight, crossing their fingers...
- Research articles 2004-06-25
- June 30 may be defining day for Street
- NEW YORK -- It's not often that what happens on a single day can mark a definitive trend change on Wall Street. But June 30 is shaping up to be one of those rare 24-hour periods. Analysts, traders and money managers are fixated on the last day of June....
- Research articles 2004-06-14
- Major General Kenneth R. Israel
- MAJOR GENERAL KENNETH R. ISRAEL Retired Oct. 1, 1998. Major General Kenneth R. Israel is assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for airborne reconnaissance, and director of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, Washington, D.C. His responsibilities include developing and evolving a unifying architecture along with development, acquisition and investment...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- National Press Club Awards Graduate Fellowship
- WASHINGTON, June 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Paul Burkhardt of Chicago, Ill., has been selected to receive the National Press Club's 2003 Feldman Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Journalism. Burkhardt will use the one-year stipend of $5,000 to attend Columbia University School of Journalism where he has enrolled in the magazine...
- Research articles 2003-06-30
- Cambridge, Mass., Technology Research Firm to Purchase Tech Advising Firm.
- By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 22--Forrester Research Inc., the Cambridge technology research firm, said yesterday it reached a deal to buy Kendall Square neighbor Giga Information Group Inc. for about $60 million in cash. ...
- Research articles 2003-01-22
- Forgotten in the Fix
- Entirely forgotten so far in the efforts to fix analyst conflicts are the chief protectors of the public - individual brokers. One case in point: There will be no brokers on the new, tougher research-oversight committee Merrill must create under terms of its deal with New York. Nor on...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Your investments and the economy.(Business)
- Byline: Mike Comerford Daily Herald Business Writer What did you think of the Fed's decision to keep rates low? "I think it was very positive. I think the Fed understands that the economy is still way too touchy, still waffling. I think we...
- Research articles 2002-05-12
- Global update: finance.(Statistical Data Included)
- Global Hotel Markets Rebound Company Stock Price Change...
- Research articles 2002-05-01
- Earnings News Sparks Dynamic Double Digit Moves.
- VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Feb 28, 2002 Among the wide range of North American stocks available to EquityAlert.com's news alert subscribers, a FREE service available at www.equityalert.com, was Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPRX) announcing Wednesday, Net Sales for the year ended December 31, 2001 ...
- Research articles 2002-02-28
- The round table: Y2K hosted the tech wreck, enigmatic 2001 delivered recession, what dragons must 2002 thwart? Key market watchers offer the sectors they expect to carry the year. (Special Report Part I: Outlook 2002).(Brief Article)
- It is official. The federal government, in the form of the National Bureau of Economic Research, confirmed in November what corporations and consumers alike had known for nearly a year: The U.S. economy is in a recession. The only questions left -- and...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- NEW ECONOMY, OLD HUBRIS.(Brief Article)
- "It'll come back," the MBA-anointed sages droned as the once-invincible NASDAQ plummeted throughout the year 2000. "It's just a blip," said the 401 k day traders as the air hissed out of the Internet bubble. "It surely can't get any worse," insisted many investors and brokers...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- Growing In Spite Of The Odds.
- Against a backdrop of uncertainty and volatility, international operators are determined to grow their presence in the Middle East and Africa. Despite risks inherent in a region where performance is tied to a volatile oil market and Peace Process, hoteliers are intent upon ...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- U.S. International Transactions, Fourth Quarter and Year 2000 - balance of trade
- FOURTH QUARTER THE U.S. current-account deficit--the combined balances on trade in goods and services, income, and net unilateral current transfers--increased to $115.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2000 from $113.1 billion revised in the third quarter table A.(1) Increases in the goods and services deficit and in net...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- Washington Techway Wins Neal Award
- Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--March 15, 2001 Washington Techway, the newsmagazine of the nation's technology capital, has won a prize for best news coverage in the 47th annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards. The winning entry was for coverage of the AOL-Time Warner merger, which appeared...
- Research articles 2001-03-15
- Bellwether Exploration Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Year 2000
- Business Editors & Energy Writers HOUSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--March 8, 2001 Bellwether Exploration Company (NASDAQ:BELW) today announced the following financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and year ending December 31, 2000: Cash Flow: Cash flow from operations, before changes in working capital, for the year 2000 totaled...
- Research articles 2001-03-08
- When opportunity knocks
- THE United States Labour Department fired the latest salvo that the economy is slowing, culminating in a week replete with data showing that the US Federal Reserve Fed will have to stay on the offensive to `rev- up' output at factories or risk the...
- Research articles 2001-02-16
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