US Stocks—An Aussie View & Betty Liu

Source: The Big Picture

“I am just an average guy who sits at home and trades the stock market. I hardly drink but this is my poison. Understanding why the markets move the way they do is somewhat of an obsession of mine. I have just developed a sy ...
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Wal-Mart investors can cheer sales surge

Source: Arkansas Online

Jason IvesterMichael Duke, president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., speaks during the company’s 2011 annual meeting at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville. LITTLE ROCK Wal-Mart Stores Inc. i ...
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Kraft OKs delicious new brand name

Source: The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

NEW YORK – Kraft Foods Inc. says shareholders approved the name Mondelez for its new global snack food business, which may put to rest the snickering that initially greeted the name. The Northfield, Ill., company said last week the name was app ...
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Execs’ pay still hefty, rising

Source: Charlotte Observer

‘Say-on-pay’ has failed to curb compensation packages for CEOs Shareholders have shaken up the corporate world this spring, voting against executive pay packages at prominent companies such as Citigroup, mall manager Simon ...
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Kraft too crafty? New snack company name draws snickers

Source: The Clarion-Ledger

The sarcasm was palpable in the one-word headline that appeared in The New York Post on the day after Kraft Foods revealed that it planned to name its new global snack business "Mondelez," an interpretation of a mash-up of the Latin word ...
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Book Bits | 5.26.2012

Source: The Capital Spectator

● The Politics of Poverty Reduction Summary via publisher, Oxford University Press Globally, there is a commitment to eliminate poverty; and yet the politics that have caused anti-poverty policies to succeed in some countries and to fail in o ...
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Dirty tricks

Source: Winnipeg Free Press

Money Matters is an interview with the Don Murray, Chair of the Manitoba Securities Commission. It's a preview of a talk he will be giving at a forum hosted by MGI Securities--a free event open to anyone on May 31. . May 24, 2012 BORIS M ...
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Glaxo strategy to buy collaborator firms

Source: Irish Times

GLAXOSMITHKLINE may find its next acquisition target where the UK drug-maker found the last two: among more than a dozen companies it collaborates with to develop new treatments. Glaxo has stakes in more than 10 publicly tr ...
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Internet Watchdogs - 'Parliament Watch' Gives Voters Access To Politicians

Source: Free Internet Press

"I do not see the current rules for the use of cannabis as leading to a dead end," she said in her answer, noting that cannabis use has declined since 2004. "This trend confirms the effectiveness of a multi-la ...
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