Your Funds: Weighing bad news when investing

Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal

Between corporate scandals, initial public offerings and the troubled global economy, investors are facing tough issues that have raised some interesting questions. Here are some examples from my mailbag: Question: "I may be in the ...
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Multi-Tech Systems Bridges Communication for Solar Beacon Project

Source: PRWeb

The Heliostat used in the Solar Beacon project Multi-Tech had an immediate solution for us. -John Vallerga, Berkeley scientist and manager of the Solar Beacon project Multi-Tech Systems is enabling an M2M (machine-to-machine) communications ...
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Africa ‘s food security and the G8 summit

Source: Workers World Online

The Hunger Project reports that out of a global population of 6.8 billion, 925 million people do not have sufficient food for members of their households. Moreover, 98 percent of undernourished people live in the so-called devel ...
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Regulators

Source: Eschaton

We don't need no stinking regulators. Senior JPMorgan executives assured the bank’s watchdogs after the financial crisis that the chief investment office, with hundreds of billions in investments, was not taking risks that woul ...
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Rosen Law Firm Files Class Action Against Tibet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. – TBET

Source: Business Wire

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Rosen Law Firm, P.A. today announced that it has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of investors who purchased the securities of Tibet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Tibet Pharma”) (OTC: TBET) anytime after December 28, 2 ...
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The Big Picture for the Week of May 27, 2012

Source: Random Roger's Big Picture

It looks like the ordeal with the Gladiator Fire is over (it would not be a Black Swan if something did happen). A week ago there was no certainty about any aspect of the fire but the uncertainty seemed to fade slowly over the cour ...
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Investment Banker Blamed in IPO

Source: The Daily Beast

Investment banking can be a real boys’ club—until one of the boys makes a dud call. That may be the case with 45-year-old Morgan Stanley banker Michael Grimes, who’s catching a lot of flak for Facebook’s fraught ...
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Bank Regulators Under Scrutiny

Source: The Daily Beast

More than 110 regulators from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency work in JPMorgan Chase’s offices, and they keep an eye on the bank’s operations. Except when they don’t. Somehow, these ...
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Game of Thrones Turns Sicilian As China Tells Australia ‘Kiss the Ring’

Source: The American Interest

Does China plan to make Australia an offer it can’t refuse? Barack Obama’s historic nine-day tour of America’s Asia-Pacific allies last November inaugurated a renewed US commitment to the region. Along the way, the president ma ...
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