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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Adolf Merckle, a 74 year old billionaire from Germany, killed himself on January 5, 2009. He was hit by a train near his hometown of Blaubeuren, southeast of Stuttgart, Germany last evening.
Merckle, was born into a rich family and was educated as a lawyer, but he spent considerable amounts of ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
In the last few months, stock market valuations have been going up and down based primarily on news, either economic or general. That will change in the next few weeks as companies enter earnings season. Now is the time to see just how much inflation, low consumer confidence, ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The Dow Jones dipped by 300 points today as investors worried about interest rate increases dumped stocks. There was quite a bit of bad news to for everyone to digest.
The passel of worries that investors juggled Thursday added up to an increasingly troubled economy. Analysts' negative comments on General ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
For Bulls who think a bottom has been reached, there are equal numbers of Bears warning that the worst of the financial crisis hasn't even been felt today. The credit crunch have kept the financial companies mired in losses and write downs.
Continued write downs are putting downward pressure on ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Since oil prices effect basically everything else, it's easy for investors to become depressed about the prospects for growth on Wall Street. Growth is the drug that fuels almost all stock purchases. People dream of how much money they'll return on their investment if only the company they ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
I'm sure you already know the news if you've been to a grocery store, or Walmart, lately. Inflation is the United States is soaring. The main culprit, naturally is rising energy prices.
Inflation is not quite as bad as 1923, but it's getting worse
The headline consumer price ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The interplay between the dollar and the price of oil continues. Oil futures have been very strong in 2008 as supply never seems to materialize, despite reduced demand from the world's largest consumer of oil, the United States. The high cost of gas is putting a dent in ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Oil just keeps on going up in price, which should cause consumers to buy less. But with something as important as transportation fuel, even a lessening in demand won't automatically create a price cut. At least that's what the International Energy Agency seems to be saying.
"Supply ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Remarks by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke helped to lift the U.S. dollar to a two week high. Investors have been extremely nervous about fuel costs, and the negative effect high gas prices have on the economy. They feared that if the Fed were to continue cutting interest rates, ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Ethical investing is a subject that's been of great interest to people for years. But one of the big problems was that "ethical" companies tended to fare much worse than their aggressive counterparts. Tobacco companies have traditionally done much better than a small company focused on the humane ...
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