Description: According to Gallup, Americans think real estate is the best long-term investment. Unfortunately, they’re wrong.
Source: Fortune.com
Date: Apr 18, 2014
Link: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/04/18/real-estate-investment/
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Description: Wal-Mart has a new way for consumers to send money across the U.S., with simple fees the retailer says cost as little as half as much as “similar offerings on the market.” Ironically, though, one of the other products it undercuts is also offered by Wal-Mart. Let me explain.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Apr 17, 2014
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Description: Years after the financial crisis, regulators announced that the big banks will have to hold more capital to protect against losses. Will it make the financial system safer?
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: April 11, 2014
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Description: Wharton School Professor of Finance Jeremy Siegel and Josh Rosner, managing director at Graham Fisher, discuss where the U.S. markets go from here with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Source: Bloomberg.com – video report
Date: Apr 11, 2014
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Description: Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe tells CNNMoney’s Laurie Segall why Facebook became interested in buying his company.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Apr 11, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/04/11/t-oculus-facebook-brendan-iribe.cnnmoney/index.html
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Description: Tinder may not be worth $5 billion, but investors say the dating app remains an extremely valuable product.
Source: Fortune.com
Date: Apr 11, 2014
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Description: There is no one who talks quite like Bill Gross, the co-founder of Pimco. He is perhaps the most influential financial manager of the past two decades, yet his stories involve an equal mix of whimsy and sheepishness, with fragments of Joni Mitchell songs, Howdy Doody vignettes, and references to classic American diner food offered in the singsong voice of a Dr. Seuss character.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Apr 10, 2014
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Description: Steve Kroft reports on a new book from Michael Lewis that reveals how some high-speed traders work the stock market to their advantage
Source: CBSNews.com – video report
Date: Mar 30, 2014
Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/is-the-us-stock-market-rigged
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Description: Blair Effron, co-founder & partner at Centerview Partners, discusses how corporate boards view activist investing and the impact it has on how boards make decisions are made on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.”
Source: Bloomberg.com – video report
Date: Apr 03, 2014
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Description: Should you invest in what your kid’s like to wear? We put the three A’s under the spotlight: Aeropostale, American Eagle, and Ambercrombie & Fitch.
Source: BNN.com – video report
Date: Apr 04, 2014
Link: http://watch.bnn.ca/#clip1078271
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