Description: News of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s retirement sent shares surging. Wall Street has criticized Ballmer for not moving into mobile quickly enough.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: August 23, 2013
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Description: Hewlett-Packard is the top Dow stock in 2013 after being a dog the past three years. Investors love Meg Whitman’s turnaround strategy. Can the comeback continue?
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: August 21, 2013
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Description: Earlier this month, Pedro Muñoz told customers that his restaurant, Luz, would no longer use popular online food-delivery service Seamless because the site took a 14 percent commission and waited too long—more than a month, a lifetime in the overhead-heavy restaurant business—to give Luz its cut.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: August 23, 2013
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Description: FOR more than a decade, investors loved emerging markets. Now many seem to fear them.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: August 23, 2013
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Description: If ever you needed another reason not to invest in your company’s stock inside your 401(k), this would be it.
Source: Marketwatch.com
Date: August 24, 2013
Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dont-invest-in-your-companys-stock-2013-08-24
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Description: Citadel’s Jamil Nazarali and former high speed trader David Lauer weigh the pros and cons of computerized stock trading for investors and society.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: August 14, 2013
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Description: Ashton Kutcher is more entrenched in the tech world than simply playing the role of Steve Jobs. He actually throws around big dollars investing in some of the hottest startups.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: August 16, 2013
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Description: Those Apple guys must be idiots. That’s what Carl Icahn says, having bought up more than $1 billion of its shares with the sole objective of having management do the same. With more than $146 billion of cash in Apple’s (AAPL)pocket, using it to buy back shares is a “no-brainer,” Icahn told CNBC.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: August 14, 2013
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Description: More and more I am hearing and reading about the coming of a 1987-style crash. There are interviews in which the subject chats about how we have to prepare for it. Articles are being published telling us that this year’s percentage gains rival those of 1987 with the clear implication being that another crash is coming.
Source: Marketwatch.com
Date: August 13, 2013
Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/quit-worrying-about-a-1987-style-crash-2013-08-13?siteid=nwtwk
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Description: Week in charts: Inflation nudges higher to Fed target rate
Source: Marketwatch.com
Date: August 16, 2013
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