Thursday, February 26, 2009

Latest Investment News

A Strong Economics Speech
Washington Post - United States
There was little or nothing in the speech about encouraging investment, helping small businesses create jobs, or lowering tax rates to reward work and ...

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FBI Fraud Probe Aims at Westgate: Reports
TheStreet.com - USA
... following their arrests on charges of securities fraud in the latest shake-out of alleged investmentschemes stemming from the financial crisis. ...

Fifth Third shares bounce on analyst comment
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Citi Investment Research analyst Keith Horowitz told the Associated Press that Fifth Third (NASDAQ: FITB) in fact might be one of the biggest benefactors of ...

Obama Claim: Done More in 30 Days Than Other Presidents
ABC News - USA
The provisions in the bill promoting energy independence, the official said, constitute "the largest energy independence investment policy ever in the US," ...

Treasury Releases Details of 'Stress Tests' for Bailed-Out Banks
Washington Post - United States
The focus is on the largest banks, including retail giants such as Bank of America, investment banks such as Morgan Stanley and specialty banks such as ...

The Politics of Stimulus Spending and Bank Bailouts
Gold Seek - USA
Back in November Henry Paulson, then Secretary of the Treasury and former CEO of investment bank Goldman Sachs, along with the active assistance of Tim ...

2 Money Managers Held in New Wall St. Fraud Case
New York Times - United States
By ZACHERY KOUWE Their supposed investment prowess lured hundreds of millions of dollars from public pension funds and universities and earned the two ...
Obama's Speech: More Spending But Status Quo to Remain
NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
Although having been a victim of this latest economic tsunami myself, I do feel a great deal of concern for this next generation and those that do not have ...
Feds Win Detention for Disbarred Lawyer in Alleged Investment Scam
The National Law Journal - USA
The Bail Reform Act is getting a real workout during the latest spat of white-collar criminal prosecutions in the Southern District of New York. ...
RIMES Announces the Availability of 'Barra Performance on RIMES ...
FOXBusiness - USA
For more information and the latest news, visit www.rimes.com MSCI Barra is a leading provider ofinvestment decision support tools to investment ...

Sacramento County trying to get back $52 million lost in alleged ...
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
The FBI on Wednesday arrested two New York men -- Paul Greenwood, 61, and Stephen Walsh, 64 -- in a suspected fraudlent investment scheme involving ...

Arboretum Ventures raises $73 million for latest fund
Metromode Media - metro detroit,MI,USA
The Ann Arbor-based firm recently closed out its latest investment fund worth $73 million. This fund is triple the size of Arboretum's first, ...

Los Angeles Times
Carl Icahn steps up battle for control of Lions Gate
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Brett Icahn works with his father at Icahn Partners and has been the point person between the New York investment firm and Lions Gate ever since Carl Icahn ...

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VC investment hits record high in 2008
Alibaba News Channel - New York,NEW YORK,USA
... (VC) investment surge 33.3% year on year to US$7.31 billion and reach a record high last year, despite the economic downturn, according to the latest ...

Stocks without dividends not such a hot investment
CharlotteObserver.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Wednesday, USA Today owner Gannett Co. became the latest newspaper publisher to slash its quarterly dividend – by 90 percent to 4 cents a share – in an ...

News Minute: Here is the latest Wyoming news from The Associated Press
LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA
(AP) - A bill to create a multimillion dollar investment fund to foster small business growth failed in the Wyoming Senate. House Bill 291 would have ...

Sears Chairman: Co Well Positioned To Operate Through Tough Econ
CNNMoney.com - USA
The latest estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters was for earnings of $2.68 a share on revenue of $13.99 billion . Sears' efforts to manage expenses ...

AT&T Outlines Plan for Delaware Wireless Network Investments in 2009
Stockhouse - Vancouver,BC,Canada
By continuing to expand its 3G wireless footprint in Delaware, AT&T is offering more consumers and businesses broadband-like speed and access to the latest ...

Cogdell posts higher funds from operations
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Charlotte-based real estate investment trust (NYSE:CSA) lost $1 million, or 6 cents per diluted share, in the latest quarter. The company had a net loss ...

Pension, college funds mull damage from WG Trading fraud
Reuters - USA
... arrests of two highflying fund managers for allegedly stealing up to $550 million from clients, thelatest big fraud case to rock the investment world. ...




Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Latest Investment News

A flawed bank rescue
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
If anything, we can see increased investment in our communities as a much-needed morale boost. DANIEL LUNA San Francisco It is easy to blame the politicians ...
First stimulus payout coming this week
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
For example, she said the state spent $50 million on outside investment managers for the pension fund, work was previously done by state workers in the ...

Despite US assurances, nationalization fears loom
Boston Globe - United States
But bank stocks had been getting pummeled ever since Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced the government's latest plan to help banks and the stress ...
MIRA LED Lighting Is Emerging As An Investment Opportunity
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USA
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Research and Markets: Latest Investment Opportunitiees, Analysis ...
Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wein,Austria
has announced the addition of GlobalData 's new report "Global Refining Industry to 2013 InvestmentOpportunities, Analysis and Forecasts of All Active and ...

Research and Markets: Latest Investment Opportunities, Analysis ...
Live-PR.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wein,Austria
has announced the addition of GlobalData 's new report "North America Underground Gas Storage Industry to 2012 Investment Opportunities, Analysis and ...

First State Trust Company Continues Its Innovative Traditions
MSNBC - USA
Leveraging the latest web-based integrated trust solution from Fi-Tek, which will be configured for financial advisors, plan sponsors and third party ...
China's Latest Hunting Trip
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
In February US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to China to beg for investment while the top Chinese brass boarded planes as fast as possible to ...

30+ Companies to Attend First US - Israel TeleHealth Business ...
PitchEngine (press release) - Riverton,WY,USA
The goal is to foster joint venture R&D, investment and marketing alliances. The event will be held at BCBS headquarters in Atlanta (3350 Peachtree Rd., ...

Medtronic Acquisitions Bring Big Payday:Venture Capital Firms
CNNMoney.com - USA
... with Medtronic Inc.'s (MDT) latest two acquisitions, which total more than $1 billion . "It's the largest single proceed for any of our investments in ...

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Vornado 4Q FFO falls to loss
Forbes - NY,USA
The latest quarter's results were hurt by charges including a $100.7 million writedown in the value of Vornado's investment in Lexington Realty Trust (nyse: ...

Allstate Halves Quarterly Dividend To 20 Cents To Save $450 ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
(ALL) halved its quarterly dividend, becoming the latest finaicial firm to take the step in efforts to preserve capital. Cutting the dividend to 20 cents a ...

A Slump of a Different Color
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA
Despite the recovery for stocks Tuesday amid renewed hopes about the government’s plans for the banking sector, the latest investment trend paints a dire ...
Asbru's Latest Web CMS Delivers Impressive Features, Value
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
For a small to medium-sized organization looking to make an investment in a value-minded but feature-rich content management system, Asbru's latest release ...
Citigroup Chafes Under US Overseers
Wall Street Journal - USA
Besides the Citigroup move, the government's latest to-do list includes an overhaul of its $150 billion bailout of American International Group Inc. ...

Steffy: Innocent bystanders suffer in Stanford case
Houston Chronicle - United States
The Houston resident had used Stanford as an investment adviser for about five years, but he didn’t have any money invested with Stanford’s Antigua-based ...
Apple Investor Riding Tenfold Gain ‘Slighted’ by Disclosures
Bloomberg - USA
25 (Bloomberg) -- Scott Grannis has owned Apple Inc. products for two decades, from his first Mac in 1987 to the latest iPhone. He bought his first Apple ...

Eaton Vance fiscal 1Q profit falls 57 percent
Forbes - NY,USA
Investment losses, including impairment losses, reduced earnings a penny per share in the latestquarter. The performance narrowly beat the consensus ...
US tries to ease investors' concerns with latest bank-aid plan:
SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USA
Banks will be allowed to convert the investment into common shares, the kind of capital taken seriously by investors. Washington Post, The (02/25)

Hartford Financial President to Retire
Wall Street Journal - USA
In early October, Hartford announced the appointment of a new chief investment officer on the same day that the company announced a $2.5 billion capital ...
Obama to Congress: Energy vital to nation's economic future
Oil & Gas Journal - Houston,TX,USA
"We have also made the largest investment in basic research funding in American history, aninvestment that will spur not only new discoveries in energy, ...


Sunday, February 22, 2009

Latest Investment News

Seattle Post Intelligencer
Hope latest victim of economy
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
It's what keeps us alive," said Lawrence Creatura, a portfolio manager at Federated Clover Investment Advisors. He said the talk of nationalizing banks only ...
Saab in Bankruptcy Filing; GM Seeks More Aid
New York Times - United States
It was the latest example of auto companies asking governments in different countries — including the United States and Canada — to step in with aid, ...

Virgin America: US investors still in control
Seattle Times - United States
Alaska's filing was the latest clash between Virgin America and US competitors. Virgin America said federal regulators addressed each of Alaska's concerns ...

Morningstar shares drop 14%
Chicago Tribune - United States
Despite the help a much-lower income-tax rate, Morningstar's net income in the latest quarter was $19.3 million, or 39 cents a diluted share, down from the ...

Defiant passengers demand crew change in latest incident
Hartford Courant - United States
"I was shocked by this," says Kushner, 31, a Moscow investment banker. "You're flying to New York with all these stringent controls that have to be adhered ...

Past probes sought to tie Stanford to drugs
Houston Chronicle - United States
Stanford, a once high-flying businessman whose investment firm’s affiliates stretch from Bogota, Colombia, to Quito, Ecuador, has denied having ties to ...
Ontario’s Green Energy Act: Backgrounder
KBS Radio - Trail,BC,Canada
This is an opportunity to modernize our electrical system and incorporate the latest and most efficient green technology solutions, while creating jobs in ...

Expedia misses expectations on its latest earnings trip
BloggingStocks - USA
Simply put, this is not a good time to be considering Expedia as an investment idea. Even though adjusted earnings were positive, I think a $9.60 accounting ...

Obama Has Plan to Slash Deficit, Despite Stimulus Bill
New York Times - United States
The president will propose to tax the investment income of hedge fund and private equity partners at ordinary income tax rates, which are now as high as 35 ...

Undergoing Some Shuffling on and Off the Field
New York Times - United States
He has investment properties and a spec house that are languishing on the market. “People just can’t get loans,” Damon said. ...

The latest in market news
ABC Online - Australia
We heard last week of course about Chinalco trying to make a $19.5 billion investment in Rio. This week we saw China Min Metals pluck Oz Minerals from the ...

Xanadu, Perhaps a Folly for Our Times
New York Times - United States
The latest Xanadu, sprouting off the New Jersey Turnpike, looking like the world’s biggest air vent, built with mismatched tiles, will never be called ...
Mortgage meltdown has gone global
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
"The global economy is now literally in free fall as the contraction of consumption, capital spending, residential investment, production, employment, ...
Pitt, CMU sue to recover $114M in investments
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The local universities are among the latest investors with assets caught up in alleged fraud investigations, exemplified by wide-reaching billion-dollar ...

Clinton wraps Asia trip by asking China to buy US debt
AFP
Clinton added: "The US needs the investment in Treasury bonds to shore up its economy to continue to buy Chinese products." The US secretary of state had ...


Press of Atlantic City
Recession could claim three Atlantic City casinos, analysts say
Press of Atlantic City - Atlantic City,NJ,USA
Resorts and the Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort are both owned by affiliates of Colony Capital LLC, a private real estate investment firm based in Los ...
*Oil price drop threatens economic collapse
guardian.co.uk - UK
By Aseel Kami and Michael Christie BAGHDAD, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Iraq must curb its dependence on oil revenue and promote investment in agriculture and ...

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It's absolutely crucial these funds deliver
This is Money - UK
Gartmore is the latest investment house to launch an absolute return fund in answer to investor appetite for low-risk investments where the emphasis - in ...

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Monday, February 16, 2009

Latest Investment News

Reuters
German economy may recover by fall
Reuters - USA
The economy shrank at record pace in the last quarter of 2008, as a manufacturing downturn hit exports and dented investment in Europe's biggest economy. ...
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Money test for US-China ties
The Canberra Times - Canberra,Australian Capital Territory,Australia
... when he described continuing Chinese investment in Treasury bonds as ''a very sensitive issue''. In April, the Treasury is due to issue the latest of ...

Rio Tinto's concerns with Chinalco
LIVENEWS.com.au - Sydney,NSW,Australia
The Telegraph also said that The Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, which owns 1.3% of Rio's shares, has also expressed disappointment in the deal. ...

Winslet and Cruise Star in a German Studio’s Latest Act
New York Times - United States
Vivendi, then the owner, sold the studio in 2004 to Filmbetriebe Berlin Brandenburg, an investmentcompany run by Mr. Woebcken and Christoph Fisser, ...
What you hide may be tiny than what you can reap
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
While it is difficult to ascertain the impact of investments out of such income in the latest bull-run , stiffer guidelines by market watchdog Sebi has ...

Toyota Will Cut Japan Output 54% in Current Quarter
Bloomberg - USA
“This kind of drop is unprecedented, probably since the end of World War II,” said Edwin Merner, president of Atlantis Investment Research Corp. in Tokyo, ...
Outsourcing lifts management costs of UT endowment
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
... it has been the most expensive to manage, according to the Legislative Budget Board's latest study comparing public investment funds. ...

Los Angeles Times
She ran EBay, can she run California?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
(Before EBay, she held executive positions at Hasbro, FTD and the investmentconsultancy Bain & Co.) "I balanced the budget throughout my entire career. ...
Kudos to You
Barron's - USA
Comparing the latest results with those of prior surveys, it is clear that the taint of financial crisis and the inability of large companies to provide ...

Asia looks to turn latest crisis into opportunity
Reuters - USA
... the loosening up of the service sector, from Internet sales to domestic helpers," David Mahon of Mahon China Investment Management Ltd said in a report. ...

Japan economy shrinks at fastest rate in 35 years
The Associated Press
Capital expenditure — business investment in factories and equipment — fell 5.3 percent from the previous quarter, while consumer spending slipped 0.4 ...
Telegraph.co.uk
New York Fashion Week: Victoria Beckham's latest collection
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
“I see these are investment buys. They’re designed to be worn from year to year, not season to season.” "I'm the Queen of the cross-your-heart-bra. ...
John P. Calamos Sr.
Forbes - NY,USA
John P. Calamos Sr., is chairman, chief executive officer and co-chief investment officer of the Calamos Investments, which he founded in 1977 and took ...



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