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Quality Large-Cap Retail Is Best Portfolio Stocking Stuffer

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:30:24 GMT

Christmas is coming, and that means two sets of flurries are on the horizon – snow and retail news. Now that the aftershocks of the 2008 financial collapse have had time to set in, this year will be a test to see how resilient consumers are in spending for the holidays. Retailers, for their part, have been preparing by slimming down; most are carrying record low levels of inventories to avoid the need for post-rush markdowns.[More...]

The Comcast And NBC Universal Mega-Deal

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:31:06 GMT

Welcome to the Wealth Daily Weekend Edition — our insights from the week in investing and links to our most-read Wealth Daily and sister publication articles. Another dizzying week of ups and downs was capped with good news yesterday...[More...]

Measuring The Fiscal Costs Of Not Fixing The Financial System

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:26:39 GMT

This post is a slightly edited version of remarks prepared for delivery at Unwinding Public Interventions in the Financial Sector: Preconditions and Practical Considerations, IMF High-Level Conference, Thursday, December 3, 2009, Washington D.C. I participated in Session 2: Managing Fiscal Risks—Public Finance Aspects of Unwinding.[More...]

Wall Street Ends Higher On Stronger-Than Expected Data, DuPont (NYSE: DD) Sinks

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:00:46 GMT

US stocks finished up as as a government release showed that economy lost far fewer jobs than expected in November, as the unemployment rate fell to 10 percent.[More...]

Unemployment Duration Still Rising

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:00:00 GMT

While we got some very good news with the employment report today (see "Unemployment Report - WOW!"), there was one part of the report that was very troubling. While it looks like the number of people entering the pool of unemployed is falling, once people are out of work it is extremely difficult for them to find new jobs.[More...]

Credit customers feel trapped by rule changes, rising rates

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:47:00 GMT

Dec. 6--Eileen Rogan was enraged when Citibank recently raised the annual interest rate on her credit card to 19 percent after boosting it a year ago from 10 percent to 15 percent.
The giant card issuer, she said, was boosting rates on customers even as it benefit ed from billions of dollars in low-cost funds made available by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department.
What irked Raymond Miltier was a recent notice from Bank of America that he would have to pay a $29 annual fee to continue using his BofA card.

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Quality Large-Cap Retail Is Best Portfolio Stocking Stuffer

The Comcast And NBC Universal Mega-Deal

Measuring The Fiscal Costs Of Not Fixing The Financial System

Wall Street Ends Higher On Stronger-Than Expected Data, DuPont (NYSE: DD) Sinks

Unemployment Duration Still Rising

Credit customers feel trapped by rule changes, rising rates

AP: Manufacturing areas lead surprise job comeback

Minnesota's SandP 500 major league players: For public companies, inclusion on a major index increases analysts coverage and sparks investor interest.

Movies made in Wilmington released on Netflix

AP: Manufacturing areas lead surprise job comeback

Rachleff now the target of $7.5M fraud complaint: Attorney's claim ties late stockbroker to misappropriation of client's funds

Online sales still bright for retailers Volume so good in otherwise down year, sites pushed to limit

Real estate expert sees good and bad going forward

AP: Manufacturing areas lead surprise job comeback

Wachovia Preferred Funding Corp. Declares Dividend on Series A Preferred Securities

100% Profitable Stock Trading Streak Climbs to 51 in a Row

ADDING MULTIMEDIA Comcast and GE to Create Leading Entertainment Company

TD AMERITRADE CEO to Speak at Goldman Sachs US Financial Services Conference 2009

Forest Conservation Can Supply 25% of Climate Solutions Through 2020, Saving $40 Billion

Citi Private Bank Announces Key Hires

Business Wire Retail Report on November 2009 Retail Sales Figures

Comcast and GE to Create Leading Entertainment Company

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