Description: A number of hedge funds including Hayman Capital and Glenview Capital are buying up JCPenney stock in the hopes of turning around the troubled retailer.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Sep 04, 2013
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Description: Fewer jobs were added than expected in August, which may be a sign that the economy is not strong enough yet for the Fed to start tapering its monthly asset purchases.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Sep 06, 2013
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Description: In 2002, at the age of 18, Saul Garlick started a program to fight poverty by building schools in rural South Africa.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: July 10, 2013
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Description: Employees of the big box store are planning a national day of protest for higher wages. Economist Richard Vedder on why we’ll all be in trouble if they get their way.
Source: Thedailybeast.com
Date: Sep 05, 2013
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Description: Revolutions, wars and the emergence of totalitarian movements are rarely just about grand ideals, political philosophy or theological disputes.
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Date: Sep 04, 2013
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Description: Pimco’s Mohamed El-Erian discusses Syria’s impact on oil prices, Chancellor Merkel’s recent statements about Greece and U.S. Treasury yields.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: August 28, 2013
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Description: Shares of Verizon soar on reports that the company might make a deal with UK-based partner Vodafone to finally buy out its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: August 29, 2013
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Description: Microsoft executives faced an unusual challenge in April when a $12 billion hedge fund, ValueAct, announced that it had bought a nearly $2 billion stake in the company with the intention of shaking things up.
Source: NYTimes.com – video report
Date: August 30, 2013
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Description: Considering the trillions of dollars of Treasury bonds the federal government has been selling to pay for its budget deficits, you’d expect there to be plenty of them for use by dealers in the financial markets. Instead there’s a drought, one that’s likely to get worse before it gets better, and it’s already interfering with the functioning of what an adviser to the Treasury Department in a recent document called “the silently beating heart of the market.”
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: August 29, 2013
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Description: Looking for the highest yield plays out there? Business Day asks investing experts to outline what investors should look for when choosing a dividend stock, ETFs, and top paying energy shares.
Source: BNN.ca – video report
Date: Aug 30, 2013
Link: http://www.bnn.ca/News/2013/8/30/The-hunt-for-yield.aspx
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