Description: Can Wall Street can still be home to a successful, long-serving, largely noncontroversial chief executive officer? An UnBlankfein? Or AntiPandit?
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Oct 26, 2012
Link:Â http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-26/a-bank-ceo-thrives-far-from-wall-street#r=hp-lst
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Description: The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,†the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year.
Source:Â NYTimes.com
Date: Oct 25, 2012
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Description: Southwest Airlines’ Gary Kelly says the outlook for fuel prices in the fourth quarter is getting worse.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Oct 18, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/10/18/n-southwest-gary-kelly.cnnmoney/
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Description: Actor, economist and author Ben Stein on The News Hub discusses steps you can take to really ruin your financial life. Photo: AP.
Source: Moneywatch.com – video report
Date: Oct 18, 2012
Link: http://on.wsj.com/Tkfhe0
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Description: Sell. That’s the message from some financial advisers, who are telling wealthy clients that the remainder of 2012 amounts to a last-chance sale on federal tax rates. Taxes are set to rise in January in the U.S., pushing the top rate on dividends to 43.4 percent from 15 percent and the top rate on capital gains to 23.8 percent from 15 percent.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: Oct 19, 2012
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Description: About nine years ago, Joe Lonsdale started working at Clarium Capital Management, the hedge fund of billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel. Lonsdale was fresh out of Stanford University and had little practical experience in finance, but found himself consulting on Thiel’s early investment in Facebook (FB) and overseeing projects for Clarium’s other holdings. On the side he dabbled with a handful of his own ventures—a restaurant, a Nascar magazine, and an outfit that built software for spies.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Oct 18, 2012
Link:Â http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-18/addepars-software-for-the-super-rich#r=hpt-ls
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Description:Â U.S. earnings started the quarter on the wrong foot, and things have only gotten worse.
Source: Reuters.com
Date: Oct 19, 2012
Link:Â http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/20/us-usa-stocks-weekahead-idUSBRE89J00620121020
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Description:Â IMF Director Christine Lagarde says global markets don’t want just a short-term fix to America’s fiscal cliff.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Oct 11, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/10/11/n-imf-christine-lagarde-america-fiscal-clif.cnnmoney/
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Description: The head of India’s’largest private bank says her country’s’demographics and consumer-driven growth model will buoy lending despite troubles abroad.
Source: Moneywatch.com – video report
Date: Oct 12, 2012
Link: http://on.wsj.com/SWln47
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Description: Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, offered to buy Oshkosh Corp. (OSK) for about $3 billion, saying the supplier of military vehicles’ management has failed to deliver on pledges to improve profitability.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Oct 11, 2012
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