Description:Â Fox Business anchor Cody Willard explains to Simon Constable why Apple stock looks like a bargain.
Source: Marketwatch – video report
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Date: 03/02/2010
 Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/apple-shares-look-cheap/48253F92-DAD8-4FC5-8B02-1473F7519FA2
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Description:Â A wakeup call for Greece and the euro. WSJ’s Andy Jordan and Joe Parkinson report from Athens on the threat of a potentially contagious debt crisis and the moral hazard of bailing out a country with bad fiscal habits.
Source: Marketwatch – video report
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Date: 03/02/2010
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Description:Â Economists have long been predicting commercial real estate could be the next day of reckoning for the financial markets, with a wave of defaults looming as billions of dollars in troubled loans come due in the coming months. But a little-noticed bill introduced in January could help bring a new source of desperately-needed liquidity to the sector: foreign investment.
Source: CNNMoney.com
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Date: 03/05/2010
Link: http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/05/real_estate/commercial_real_estate.fortune/index.htm
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Description:Â Many investors can only look on with envy when Warren Buffett says his shareholders have seen 20% annualized gains over the past 45 years — even the best mutual funds pale by comparison.
Source: Marketwatch.com
Date: 03/05/2010
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Description:Â Author and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman dissects problems in financial regulatory reform.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
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Date: 02/25/2010
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/02/24/n_tom_friedman_regulation_reform.cnnmoney/
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Description:Â Analysts say wireless-device maker has few options; few see buyout as likely.
Source: Marketwatch – video report
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Date: 02/26/2010
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Description:Â Peddling credit cards isn’t so easy that a caveman can do it. That seems to be the conclusion Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500) chief executive Warren Buffett reluctantly reached last year, when he shut down a money-losing credit card business he had dreamed up for Berkshire’s Geico car-insurance unit.
Source: CNNMoney.com
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Date: 02/27/2010
Link: http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/27/news/companies/berkshire.geico.fortune/index.htm
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Description: The American International Group said on Friday that it lost about $11 billion last year, surprising analysts and showing the long-term risks inherent in the types of large, complex insurance coverage that the company once pioneered.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: 02/26/2010
Link:Â http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/business/27insure.html?ref=business
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Description:Â Â The euro is damaged goods, laid low by a debt crisis that has revealed the shortcomings of European economic and monetary union, economists say.
Source: Marketwatch.com
Date: 02/26/2010
Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/euro-tarnished-but-rivals-dont-shine-2010-02-26?siteid=nwtwk
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Description:Â Sanderson Farms Inc., Hasbro Inc., CF Industries Holdings Inc. and Ralcorp Holdings Inc. have moved up nicely this year.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: 02/22/2010
Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ayPIAFcd7_hE
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