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Yield matters. Not that you’d necessarily know it from where some markets are trading.For instance, at one point last week, U.S. short-dated Treasury bills were said to have had a negative yield. That’s to say, investors were (Read More)
WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide:
As governments grapple with fallout from the global economic crisis, a new report from WFP and the World Bank shows that school meals and similar programmes are vital to keeping children in school, improving their learning an (Read More)
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WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide:
WASHINGTON - As governments worldwide continue to grapple with fallout from the global economic crisis, a new report from the World Bank and the World Food Programme (WFP) shows that school feeding and other food-based safety (Read More)
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The UN just released its latest estimates on the AIDS epidemic. The rate of new infections has been falling for more than a decade, but the total number of people infected with HIV hasn’t declined.Here are a few key figures, (Read More)
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Rob Parenteau, currency and credit markets expert, and editor of The Richebacher letter, analyzes the current state of the economy, as represented by retail sales. Can retail really drive the recovery? Rob Parenteau (The Dai (Read More)
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France-brokered talks between Syria and Israel are unlikely to provide an avenue for peace – neither is offering anything newA glimmer of hope in the moribund Middle East peace process surfaced in Paris recently when Nicolas (Read More)
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Sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but today’s news isn’t uplifting: the global water problem needs more attention, oceans are becoming less effective at storing CO2 and we’ve underestimated the pace and extent of climate change. O (Read More)
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Much hay has been made over the development of a U.S. dollar carry trade in recent months. In part, this is because it presents an intriguing link between the ongoing struggles faced by Japan following its own real estate bus (Read More)
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Content network firm Adconian Media Group said today that it has acquired the assets of Joost, the online video service founded by Skype founders and the subject of a lawsuit drama this fall.The terms of the deal were not dis (Read More)
The Guardian:
Email barry.glendenning@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts, plus follow Debrecen v Liverpool, Barcelona v Internazionale and all tonight's live scores. Or follow this game on the sly with our pop-upArsenal's place in the last (Read More)
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Milton Hershey had no children so he said he would make the “orphan boys of the United States” his heirs.To that end, the chocolatier founded the Milton Hershey School, which today serves 1,700 underprivileged children and ha (Read More)
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Despite a relatively flat buck, crude prices are down roughly 1.5%, yanking down energy stocks out of the gate. The S&P Energy sector moved lower first, with the entire S&P 500 falling shortly afterward. S&P energy sector is (Read More)
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Zacks.com submits: Abbott Labs (ABT) recently signed a definitive agreement with PanGenetics BV for a pain candidate, PG110. Under the terms of the agreement, Abbott will acquire global rights to PG110 which is a novel biolog (Read More)
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TraderRob submits:While the phenomenon hasn't received much attention, the Nikkei 225 headline Japanese stock index has diverted course from all other major economic player stock exchanges. The Nikkei turned negative on Augus (Read More)
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