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UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The new nuclear age Fly Title: Global banks Rubric: Badly managed and unrewarding, global banks need a rethink BANKS are yet again in trouble—not pure investment banks such as Lehman Brothers, or mortgage specialists such as Northern Rock; but a handful of huge global … Read entire story.
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A solid session all around with leading stocks showing power despite the Dow and S&P 500 closing lower on the session. The NASDAQ is nearing the 5000 level a mark it has not seen in over a decade. Volume was higher across the board in a good show of support for …
Imagine that it is 1935, and the US has just survived the Great Depression. You think to yourself – if a company can survive this, it’s got to be pretty solid. So you buy equal amounts of stock from 30 of the largest US companies, and hold them… forever! If a …
Once the world’s largest and most influential bond fund, Pimco continues to fall from that stature. Its star has dramatically dimmed after its founder, the “bond king” Bill Gross, left Pimco almost a year ago. Investors started taking out billions of dollars from Pimco after Gross left and continue to do so. Just in August, […]