When dividends are raised in the midst of a market correction, it’s especially comforting.
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Even though crashes, corrections and capitulations are bad news for investors holding the stock, there are still ways to profit.
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There was a great conversation Thursday at Y Combinator’s AngelConf in Silicon Valley. Anthony Ha of Venturebeat had a couple posts on it that I just read, one on Paul Graham’s comments, and another on Ron Conway and Mike Arrington’s comments. I would have enjoyed being part of that discussion, so I’ll join in now.United Online
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An overview of the Climate Change Conference (also known as COP 14), held in Pozna?, Poland, at the beginning of December, 2008. As with past conferences, this too was not without its controversies. For example, while the Adaptation Fund was launched the funding of it caused lots of disagreements. The conference came at a time when Europe seemed to weaken their usually strong stance on climate change action and on news that in recent years, emissions from industrialized nations had risen.Nokia
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Regulators on Friday shut banks in Florida, Georgia, Oregon and Washington, lifting to 108 the number of U.S. banks to fail this year as the …
Carl reads three quotes from the week’s news. This week: the United States faces another big leaky thing, Tony Hayward moves on to greener pastures (which he’ll almost certainly destroy), and President Obama gets some girl time.Nanya Technology
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Racism can be found in many places around the world, often rooted in complex historical circumstances mixed with contemporary issues and conditions. The racism article on this site was getting quite old, so it has been updated with a few more examples and background information. More will be added over time.
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Despite sluggish economy, railways keep rolling on to higher profits.
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For years, many have argued that our current economic system does not fully capture the cost of the environment. The price signal, for example, should be an indicator of resource scarcity or other environmental concerns, but often does not capture the full costs. (Current climate change is perhaps a clear indication of this.)
As a result, we continue efficiently producing products and services that have a negative impact on the environment in some way (which is inefficient, on the whole, in the long run).
For those who fear excessive government regulation, a truer accounting of such costs could allow markets to more naturally price goods and services, and highlight seemingly efficient companies and industries as inefficient, forcing change through markets, rather than regulation, which market proponents always fear. (The irony may be that to see such a change in our economic systems may require political leadership by governments and citizens ? although that is how national and global market systems came into being in the first place.)
The biodiversity page has been updated to explain this further.
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None of the steelmakers are looking for a great second half, but is this part of a larger problem?
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Hedge fund icon Stanley Fink visited an a prep school recently to discusss his views of the economic climate in the UK.
From MenMedia:
The UK economy will recover, but “only after four or five years of austerity” and never to the three to four per cent annual growth rates it achieved in the past, hedge fund guru Stanley Fink told an audience at Manchester Grammar School.
“I do not think we will ever sustain those exceptional levels of economic growth again because of greater life expectancy, the need to care for the elderly, the diminution of the earth’s natural resources and the lack of cheap energy.”
He said Britain should look to develop new jobs in sectors such as engineering and hi-tech manufacturing, while also continuing to back the financial services sector.Join the conversation about this story »
It’s likely that Seth Klarman believes Multimedia is worth much more than $4 a share to anyone interested in purchasing the company.
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Ocean acidification is a potentially large problem directly related to climate change resulting from ocean waters reacting with more carbon dioxide. Amongst other things, it seems to negatively affect certain plankton that help in absorbing carbon dioxide. Some of the affected sea creatures are also crucial to the food chain, so the implications could be big. Some further information, including a couple of short videos, have been added to explain this.Ims Health
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Poor John Kasich. When he made that fateful decision in January 2001, he was just doing what politicians have done since time immemorial: he was taking a cushy Wall Street job between a couple of public office gigs in order to pad the family pocketbook.Directv Group
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It was an oddly news-filled, but quiet session in the market today. In the end, despite having been down most of the day, stocks ended up.
But first, the scoreboard:
Dow: +2.42NASDAQ: +3S&P 500: +0.68
And now, the top stories:
World markets were mostly subdued overnight, perhaps in part due to a weak industrial production number out of Japan, and also because of carryover from yesterday’s emotional day in the US.
James Bullard’s ‘we are Japan’ paper continued to garner a lot of talk this morning, culminating with 2 hours on CNBC this morning, where he expressed displeasure with the prospect of ending the Bush tax cuts.
The big action in the US started at 8:30. GDP came in on the weak side of what was expected — not horrible, but stocks sold off instantly on the news. On the other hand, Chicago PMI and University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment both came in better than expected.
But the market action was decidedly down beat (though again, not wildly so) for most of the day. In addition to equities, notable winners (and this should obviously concern the bulls) were Treasuries and the yen.
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Norfolk Southern had a tremendous second quarter, and this good run may also bode well for the economy.
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