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		<title><![CDATA[Your investments and the economy.(Business)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5273/is_200705/ai_n20577043]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IT sector rides investment wave.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200605/ai_n17516969]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[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.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5946/is_200510/ai_n24024861]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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?  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Win-at-All-Costs President]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmnew/is_200502/ai_n14760038]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Detroit Free Press Susan Tompor column.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200406/ai_n22192967]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[June 30 may be defining day for Street]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Major General Kenneth R. Israel]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0RBE/is_2004_Annual/ai_n8566828]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[National Press Club Awards Graduate Fellowship]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The New Chapter In M&A Transactions: Assessing Year 2000 Compliance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new chapter is being written in the M&A manuals. The acquisition of a company or its assets brings with it the distinct possibility of assuming Year 2000 compliance liabilities. In addition, the buyer's counsel to address must carefully draft representations and warranties as well as termination and indemnification provisions...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cambridge, Mass., Technology Research Firm to Purchase Tech Advising Firm.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Forgotten in the Fix]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km2926/is_200207/ai_n6933443]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Your investments and the economy.(Business)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5273/is_200205/ai_n20630331]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Global update: finance.(Statistical Data Included)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4697/is_200205/ai_n17247502]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Hotel Markets Rebound    Company                                    Stock Price     Change...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Earnings News Sparks Dynamic Double Digit Moves.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5559/is_200202/ai_n22627194]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[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)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3228/is_200201/ai_n7902252]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NEW ECONOMY, OLD HUBRIS.(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3458/is_200107/ai_n8233464]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Growing In Spite Of The Odds.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4697/is_200106/ai_n17254841]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Prophets And Losses: Reassessing The Returns To Analysts’ Stock Recommendations]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=74214]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[After a string of years in which security analysts' top stock picks significantly outperformed their pans, the year 2000 was a disaster. During that year the stocks least favorably recommended by analysts earned an annualized market-adjusted return of 48.66 percent while the stocks most highly recommended fell 31.20 percent, a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2001 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Washington Techway Wins Neal Award]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_March_15/ai_71716551]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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