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Written by Elaine Chan
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Saturday, 15 November 2008 |
Google (GOOG - $312.08) stock has lost over 40 percent since July. In the last earnings call, the search engine company's management expressed optimism on coming advertising revenue, but that message did not support the stock price. Not even its partnership with NBC Universal helped to convince investors.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 November 2008 )
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Written by Miranda Marquit
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
The "do-gooder" funds are doing well themselves. One of the more interesting bits of information to come out of the recent turmoil on the stock market is the fact that social funds are actually outperforming.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 11 November 2008 )
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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
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Five years of occupation, more than $558 billion spent, 4,182 U.S. soldiers and 655,000 Iraqi civilians dead, and it now looks like Monsanto (NYSE.MON - $71.95) is going to be the real victor in Iraq thanks to a postwar document known as Order 81.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 November 2008 )
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Written by Miranda Marquit
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
As oil prices fall, alternative energy is shunted aside.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 27 October 2008 )
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Written by David Neubert
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
The media is having a field day with the market decline. People who wouldn't normally be interested are watching CNBC or Bloomberg TV and reading the business section. If you are making predictions of Dow 2000 or Dow 1000 you will get on TV or quoted in the newspaper. Now there is also a big incentive to call the bottom of the market. The person who randomly picks the bottom will become famous but many who follow the predictions of bottom pickers will get nothing but losses. There is an old Wall Street saying that goes: "Don't pick your nose and don't pick bottoms."
What is the right thing to do?
If you have a 401k:
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 28 October 2008 )
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Written by David Neubert
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
The media is having a field day with the market decline. People who wouldn't normally be interested are watching CNBC or Bloomberg TV and reading the business section. If you are making predictions of Dow 2000 or Dow 1000 you will get on TV or quoted in the newspaper. Now there is also a big incentive to call the bottom of the market. The person who randomly picks the bottom will become famous but many who follow the predictions of bottom pickers will get nothing but losses. There is an old Wall Street saying that goes: "Don't pick your nose and don't pick bottoms."
What is the right thing to do?
If you have a 401k:
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 28 October 2008 )
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Written by Michelle Haimoff
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 |
There are a number of environemntal, political and financial problems in the world that its most resourceful, patient and intelligent people should address. Luckily, many of these people are on the case, as was evident at the 2008 Pop!Tech conference.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 October 2008 )
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Written by Michelle Haimoff
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 |
There were a number of suggestions the speakers at the 2008 Pop!Tech Conference gave the audience about leading a more socially- and environmentally-conscious life. Here are six particularly surprising ones:
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 26 October 2008 )
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Written by Michelle Haimoff
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 |
If you give American kids a tough math problem to solve and tell them they have fifteen minutes to solve it, they will give up on it after two, Chinese kids will still be working on it after the 15 minutes have passed. -Malcolm Gladwell
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 26 October 2008 )
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Written by Michelle Haimoff
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 |
Pop!Tech was a little like the Sundance Film Festival and a little like three days of business school.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 November 2008 )
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