Sprint gets iPhone 5 bump

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Description:  Shares of Sprint are up on iPhone 5 mania. But is the struggling wireless carrier a better bet than Apple, AT&T and Verizon? Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Sep 20, 2012 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/investing/2012/09/20/investing-sprint-iphone-5.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: What explains Sprint’s rise in price? What are the negative aspects related to investing in this firm?… Read more »

Analyst: We See Apple Hitting $800 a Share

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Description: Alliance Bernstein senior analyst Toni Sacconaghi joins digits to explain the firm’s aggressive outlook for Apple and any tech sector forces that could curb the form’s outlook as well. Photo: Getty Images. Source: Moneywatch.com – video report Date: Sep 21, 2012 Link: http://on.wsj.com/RFKDLo Questions for Discussions: What is driving the share price of Apple?… Read more »

Medicare Bills Rise as Records Turn Electronic

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Description:  When the federal government began providing billions of dollars in incentives to push hospitals and physicians to use electronic medical and billing records, the goal was not only to improve efficiency and patient safety, but also to reduce health care costs. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Sep 21, 2012 Link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/business/medicare-billing-rises-at-hospitals-with-electronic-records.html?_r=1&hp Questions for Discussions: What are… Read more »

Stung by Losses, Main Street Investors Fail to Notice Market’s Rebound

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Description:  Although the memory of Lehman Brothers’ 2008 collapse may be fading on Wall Street, the shock still lingers on Main Street—and may again be hurting ordinary investors. A new survey of individual investors is a reminder of just how much we are primal creatures that remember the pain of loss more than the joy… Read more »

Do shaken transport stocks signal a sell?

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Description:  Commentary: Rough week for FedEx, railroads rattles Dow Theorists Source: Marketwatch.com Date: Sep 21, 2012 Link:  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/do-shaken-transport-stocks-signal-a-sell-2012-09-21 Questions for Discussions: Summarize the theory that concerns some investors at this time. Do you think there is reason to be concerned? What else might explain a decline in the transportation sector that is disconnected to the… Read more »

The economy 4 years after Lehman

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Description: CNNMoney takes a look at Wall Street jobs and where the country’s money is concentrated four years after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Sep 14, 2012 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/09/14/n-economy-four-years-after-lehman-collapse.cnnmoney/ Questions for Discussions: Summarize the changes that have taken place during the past four years. What change can be considered “for… Read more »

Why It May Be Too Late for QE3

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Description: Paul Vigna and Spencer Jakab discuss why another round of bond buying may be wishful thinking, and Miriam Gottfried looks at what a hologram of Tupac means for investors. Photo: Reuters. Source: Moneywatch.com – video report Date: Sep 13, 2012 Link: http://on.wsj.com/ROw9CJ Questions for Discussions: Summarize the analysis presented in this report. Do you… Read more »

Apple’s iPhone 5 Is Worth More Than The Efforts Of The Federal Reserve

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Description: “In the face of “a suboptimal recovery” the Fed said it would persist until the outlook for the job market improves “substantially”, but a sceptical Mr Warsh said: “The iPhone 5 is going to do more for the real economy than QE3?. Source:  Forbes.com Date: Sep 14, 2012 Link:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/09/15/apples-iphone-5-is-worth-more-than-the-efforts-of-the-federal-reserve/ Questions for discussion: Summarize… Read more »

Ex-UBS Trader Is Accused of Gambling in a Big Loss

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Description:  Fictitious trading and brazen gambling by a single individual could have brought down the Swiss financial giant UBS, a British prosecutor said on Friday at the trial of a former bank employee accused of causing a multibillion-dollar trading loss. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Sep 14, 2012 Link:  http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/as-his-fraud-trial-opens-ex-ubs-trader-is-accused-of-brazen-gambling/?ref=business Questions for Discussions: Summarize the highlights of… Read more »

Why Apple isn’t going into the Dow

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Description:  Kraft  KFTis being replaced in the Dow Jones Industrial Average by UnitedHealth Group  after the close of trading  Sept. 21. It’s the first change in the composition of the widely quoted index since 2009. But while UnitedHealth represents an important sector of the economy, it may not have seemed the most logical choice, given… Read more »