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Google Inc Buys Nik Software
As Google Inc continues to compete with Facebook in the mobile social media space, photo editing has become more and more important. In order to compete with Facebook’s Instagram, Google purchased Nik...
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Leap Wireless International submits plan to improve
After a Q2 2012 earnings miss, Leap Wireless International is taking steps to improve its free cash flow for 2013. In particular, the company plans on outsourcing some of its internal operations and...
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Issues with iPhone 5 maps
As Apple Inc.’s iPhone 5 hits stores today, users are carefully examining the phone’s new features. Many new iPhone 5 owners have noticed that the new maps application from Apple is not as accurate as...
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UnitedHealth to buy most of Brazil’s Amil for $4.9 billion
UnitedHealth Group Inc will buy a 90 percent stake in Amil Participacoes SA (AMIL3-BR), Brazil’s largest health insurer and hospital operator, for $4.9 billion, tapping into a fast-growing private...
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Carl Icahn offers to buy Oshkosh Corp
Citing “a lost decade of shareholder value,” Carl Icahn has extended an offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Oshkosh Corp, pending the election of his board nominees to the OSK board. If...
View ArticleIntroducing ‘comfort stocks’– sheltered from global economic storms
Want a sense of security from your investment portfolio? “Comfort stocks” in those companies with less reliance on the shaky global economy for their prosperity and that get the majority of their...
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Where did equity go in Q3 2012?
From Q2 ’12 to Q3 ’12, institutional ownership of public global equity securities increased from $21.6 trillion to $22.7 trillion, an increase of 4.83%. Institutions in the Americas hold roughly 70%...
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January 2013: the month in charts
It turns out, last month was the best January that U.S. equity markets had seen since 1997, and investors responded by putting more cash into equity mutual funds than had been recorded since the year...
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Private equity investment in urgent care – graphic of the day
The amount of money invested by PE firms in health and medical services (which include urgent care) rose to almost $4 billion in 2012. Today’s graphic charts the number of deals, the equity invested in...
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German government considering Commerzbank stake sale
On July 16, 2013, Reuters reported that the German government may be planning to sell their 17 percent stake in Commerzbank in order to finally exit from the country’s second largest lender. Germany...
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