Revealed: Apple’s “Offshore” Cash Isn’t Even Offshore
Submitted by testosteronepit on 05/23/2013 - 12:57 Apple Fail Ireland John McCain New York Times Ohio Reality Tax Revenue Too Big To Fail Money doesn’t stop at borders or oceans; accounting does.
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The Biggest Market Sell-Offs in History
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 05/23/2013 - 12:57 Ben Bernanke Ben Bernanke Brazil Bureau of Labor Statistics China Dow Jones Industrial Average Federal Reserve Hong Kong Mexico Monetary Policy NASDAQ New Home Sales Nikkei recovery Unemployment United Kingdom The Nikkei dropped by 7.3% at the end of the day and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dipped by 2.5%. Shanghai maintained a moderate fall at just 1.2% (if you believe that data now!). The Asian markets are down.- Comments: 29
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Political Polling Popularity?
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 05/23/2013 - 12:49 France George Papandreou Iran Nicolas Sarkozy President Obama ratings Silvio Berlusconi Twitter Unemployment White House Popularity is something that can be determined by two things. Firstly, it doesn’t last! When too many people start liking you anyway, there is always someone that is there ready to knife you in the back. ‘Heil Caesar!’ soon turns into ‘Et tu, Brute’!- Comments: 10
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Will Japan Trigger a Global Financial Meltdown?
Submitted by Phoenix Capital... on 05/23/2013 - 12:26 Bank of Japan Bond Fail Japan Meltdown Nikkei As Japan has indicated, when bonds start to plunge, it’s not good for stocks. Today the Japanese Bond market fell and the Nikkei plunged 7%. The entire market down 7%... despite the Bank of Japan funneling $19 billion into it to hold things together.- Comments: 2
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Replace Your Home Office With A Cellphone: Deadbeat Carrier Creative Destruction In The Ongoing Mobile Computing Wars
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 05/23/2013 - 10:22 Apple ETC FiOS Verizon The Mobile Computing Wars! There'll be a few big winners, and some horrendously damaged losers brought about mostly by undue greed and price gouging in lieu of creativity and innovation!- Comments: 24
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The Dire State of the Platinum-Palladium Miners
Submitted by Sprott Group on 05/23/2013 - 09:46 Exchange Traded Fund Precious Metals- Comments: 8
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BReaKiNG NiKKei...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 05/23/2013 - 09:44 Nikkei Please do not worry...- Comments: 36
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Japanese Corporates Are Not Yen Bears (any more)
Submitted by Marc To Market on 05/23/2013 - 09:39 Japan Reuters Yen The globalization of production makes corporate fx interests less clear. A Reuters survey finds Japanese corporates bearish the yen. Japanese investors also have not behaved as if they expect yen weakness to be sustained.- Comments: 1
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Gold Up 1.5% As Stocks Globally Fall After Nikkei Crashes 7.3%
Submitted by GoldCore on 05/23/2013 - 09:37 Ben Bernanke Bond British Pound default Dubai Federal Reserve Hong Kong India Japan Monetary Policy Nikkei Precious Metals Turkey Volatility Today’s AM fix was USD 1,386.00, EUR 1,074.92 and GBP 919.16 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,385.25, EUR 1,071.43 and GBP 917.75 per ounce.- Comments: 11
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USA: Unemployment Down
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 05/23/2013 - 08:46 Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment Unemployment Benefits Last week (May 11th) there was a peak of 32, 000 new claims being made taking the US to 360, 000 new unemployed claims being filed, which is the biggest increase since March.- Reads: 960
Modern Life Is Making Us Dumber
Submitted by George Washington on 05/22/2013 - 19:38 Forget "Peak Oil" and "Peak Credit" ... Are We On the Downslope of "Peak Intelligence"?- Comments: 129
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ZiG ZaG BeN...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 05/22/2013 - 13:20 Ben Bernanke Protect America, report all market contrarian activities!- Comments: 45
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Hyperinflation – 10 Worst Cases
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 05/22/2013 - 13:02 Brazil China Germany Greece Hungary Hyperinflation Mexico National Debt Poland Recession Stagflation Inflation is hot property today, hyperinflation is even hotter! We think we are modern, contemporary, smart and ready to deal with anything. We’ve got that seen-it-all-before, been-there-done-it attitude. But, we are not a patch on what some countries have been through in the worst cases of hyperinflation in history.- Comments: 82
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Argentine Inflation: It’s Tough When All You Get Is Lies
Submitted by testosteronepit on 05/22/2013 - 12:41 Consumer Prices CPI Purchasing Power But 34.9%?- Comments: 31
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Bernanke "No Tapering"; Silver Goes Up and Down Again
Submitted by Monetary Metals on 05/22/2013 - 11:06 Ben Bernanke headlines Money Supply In about 15 minutes, the silver price rose 2.2%. In about 15 minutes more, the price fell back to where it had been. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.- Comments: 34
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