Autoblog:
Filed under: LA Auto Show, Performance, Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Lamborghini, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Spyker, Fisker, LuxuryThe closest we'll get to the Ferrari 458 - Click above for high-res i (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk, b (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalWorking for a start-up is hard enough. Trying to wittily describe ”the unique entrepreneurial culture that sets their company apart and inspires them to go to work each day” – (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
So institutional shareholders are upset at the bonuses Goldman Sachs Group is planning to shell out, as we read in today’s WSJ. But what about investors at other financial institutions? Where is the outrage there?The complain (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
There’s been a lot of negative housing news lately, but some analysts say existing home sales for October, due to be reported Monday morning by the National Association of Realtors, will be strong, partly because buyers lunge (Read More)
New York Times:
The e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university will undoubtedly raise questions about the actions of some scientists.
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Business News Americas - Top Stories:
Software purchases by Central American SMEs are growing in spite of the global economic slowdown, the head of SAP's (NYSE: SAP) Mexico and Central America division, Ali Hamid, told BNamericas.
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Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nominees for key U.S. Treasury international posts pledged on Friday to work to persuade China to change its currency practices to allow critical adjustments in global trade and economic balances.
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Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
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The Daily Reckoning:
What happened yesterday? The Dow sold off 93 points. Investors had been hesitating. There’s supposed to be a recovery going on. But the latest news is unsettling. Housing and employment numbers are weak. What’s going on? Mayb (Read More)
The Daily Reckoning:
Last month, a Hong Kong apartment set a record. It sold for $56.6 million, which works out to $11,350 per square foot – the highest price ever paid for a pad in China. The buyer may have just needed a roof over his head. More (Read More)
The Daily Reckoning:
It’s another sunny day of Indian summer here in Baltimore… here’s some fitting news: The “audit the Fed” bill is alive and kicking.As we reported earlier this month, Ron Paul’s popular proposal of HR 1207 was gutted by Mel Wa (Read More)
The Daily Reckoning:
The expensive stimulus procedure intended to save the economy from its depths has hardly worked. Perhaps it seemed at first like a simple nip and tuck… the rising market has at least made things look a little better.However, (Read More)
Financial Times:
Germany’s new finance minister has echoed Chinese warnings about the growing threat of fresh global asset price bubbles, fuelled by low US interest rates and a weak dollar. (Read More)
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BREAKING:Warmist conspiracy exposed?Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails.The Sound Of All Hell About To Break Loose.The global warming scandal of the centuryLeaked FOIA files 62 mb of goldGet all the (Read More)
Autoblog:
Filed under: Car Buying, GMLast month, General Motors raised some eye brows when it announced its 60-day satisfaction guarantee program giving customers the ability to drive their vehicles for 60 days and return them with zer (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Calafia Beach Pundit submits: Here are two more charts to add to my commodity reflation recap post from Wednesday.The first chart is the Journal of Commerce index of 18 industrial commodities; the second chart is the textile (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Archipelago Learning (ARCL), Cloud Peak Energy (CLD), Global Defense Technologies (GTEC), and 7 Days Group (SVN) are all expected to begin trading Friday, marking the busiest day in IPOs since September 23 of this year, when (Read More)
ETF Trends:
Brazil is a country on the rebound. The country’s related shares and exchange traded funds (ETFs) have reflected this with stellar performance so far this year. Why is Brazil a leader among emerging and developed markets?Braz (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Moody’s still thinks the credit ratings of the world’s big drug companies are likely to get worse in the coming months. But Moody’s does find a few good things to say about the industry. A sampling of findings from the compa (Read More)