Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp, Time Warner Inc and Qualia Capital LLC are interested in buying Hollywood's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio, home of the James Bond movies, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
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One particularly vitriolic reader of my last article on The Distorted Shape of the Recovering Economy seemed to think I was predicting a doomsday scenario. I was not at all. Richard Duncan’s tentatively predicted Fall of Rome (Read More)
The Guardian:
Gold was a lousy investment in the 90s … how times change. The humble savings account, meanwhile, more than held its ownGoldIt has been one of the best investments of the past decade, and this week it was hitting new highs. B (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Gary Gordon submits: Volatility in stocks making you antsy once again? Wondering if you should pull an itchy trigger finger and sell? In truth, cash is going to make its way back into stocks, bonds commodities, currencies… a (Read More)
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Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE) – The exchange-traded fund, which mirrors the performance of the Energy Select Sector of the S&P 500 Index, popped up on our ‘most active by options volume’ market scanner after a butterfly spr (Read More)
FT.com - Lunch with the FT:
The charming billionaire oligarch talks to Peter Aspden about growing up as the son of a KGB agent, buying the Evening Standard and promoting Russian culture in Britain. (Read More)
FT.com - Merryn Somerset Webb:
Buying a fund of value stocks should provide good upside if the rally continues, some capital protection if not, and reasonable income either way. (Read More)
Reuters: Private Equity:
NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Private equity giant KohlbergKravis Roberts & Co said current deal opportunitiesinclude buying noncore subsidiaries from companies andproviding rescue and growth capital, rather than the largepub (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - U.S. Economy:
-- Canadian investor Arthur Wong is buying condos in Las Vegas and Phoenix like a shopper at Costco: In bulk, with slashed prices.
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FT.com - Lex, Macroeconomics & markets:
Buying stocks has proved to be an effective strategy everywhere except Japan, the only developed market in negative territory in the year-to-date. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from “What Are You Doing?” to “What’s Happening?” But if you want to know what’s really happening now, check out Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime Cr (Read More)
CNET News.com:
Some people live for the Super Bowl of gadget buying, others can't imagine facing the maddening crowds. How do you plan to spend the day after Thanksgiving? Vote in our poll. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
As the founder of Weblogs Inc., Jason Calacanis is, in many ways, the cofounder of the new AOL, which will be built around the company's network of 80 blogs and content sites.So when we asked the Mahalo CEO for his take on AO (Read More)
The Guardian:
• US confectioner has moved thousands of jobs to Mexico in three-year restructuring• Company's intentions towards Cadbury, a potential bid target, remain unclearIt calls itself the sweetest place in America. But the home town (Read More)
ClusterStock:
People are staying together in South Florida. But not because they want to.Miami Herald: With the economy sputtering, South Florida couples are staying together more or attempting do-it-yourself divorces rather than paying (Read More)
ClusterStock:
This is a really awesome video about oil drilling going on today in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. (via Houston Chronicle)Join the conversation about this story »See Also:How To Make Money Hoarding OilRussia Gives Europe Yet An (Read More)
ClusterStock:
For all the difficulty of measuring inflation, most countries use something similar to our CPI to do it.Obviously, though, the components are totally different, and so they provide a nice insight into what people are buying a (Read More)
The Guardian:
Poor parents pick child's school because it is close to home, while middle-class parents go on good academic recordGiving parents a choice over primary schools increases the social divide, a study reveals.The majority of poor (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
The British maker of stuff for audiophiles says digital streaming is the way forward for its music productsThe CD player is dead. So says Linn Products, the high-end audio specialist based in Glasgow which for 20 years has be (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
JP Morgan was out with an excellent piece of research explaining (and defending) their opinions on many of the market myths that are currently swirling regarding the government’s response to the crisis and the reaction by var (Read More)