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Get A Look At 'Fortune Unfiltered'
Monday, July 25, 2016 - 3:33pm | 264Read More...Fortune.com editor Aaron Task launched a new podcast today titled “Fortune Unfiltered,” which will focus on the “journey of business figures from visionaries to leaders,” according to a description provided by Fortune. The show launches with three inaugural episodes. The...
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Top Financial Tweets From December 30, 2013
Monday, December 30, 2013 - 10:38am | 402Read More...The wealth of information and opinions spread on Twitter has grown each and every year since its inception in 2006. Benzinga will try to collect some of the notable tweets from the business, media and financial markets as days go by. Some may be newsworthy, some may be humorous - all help...
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Weak Retail Sales Report Puts Tapering On Hold
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 1:10pm | 474Read More...On Monday, the Census Bureau announced that retail sales in the U.S. rose at a slower pace than expected in June. The move has prompted some to revise down second quarter growth estimates and decreases the likelihood that the Fed will taper purchases in September. Weak Report For the month of June...
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The Smart Money's In Gold and Housing (GLD)
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 2:54pm | 226Read More...In Yahoo's TechTicker, Aaron Task just interviewed Wall Street Journal staff reporter, Greg Zuckerman, who recently wrote a book on John Paulson, as that is where the Smart Money is placing its bets. "A lot of people who bet against housing and did very well have shifted over to gold," said...
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Some Tips For No More Lost Decades In Stocks
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 5:11pm | 166Read More...Aaron Task of Yahoo's Tech Ticker interviewed Vitaliy Katsenelson of Investment Management Associates, and Katsenelson believes stocks will go sideways for the next 10 years. "To be honest, I have no idea what [the market] is going to do over the next three weeks. But I think over next 8 to 10...
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Peter Schiff and Gary Shilling Go Head to Head
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 3:58pm | 174Read More...In an interview on Yahoo's TechTicker, Aaron Task sat down with Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Captial and Gary Shilling of A. Gary Shilling & Co. for a good, ole fashion head to head. For those not in the know, these two individuals are complete opposites—one severely worried about inflation (...
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Mark Dow Says Euro Bailouts Are Right Policy
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 12:11pm | 125Read More...Aaron Task just tweeted that Mark Dow, of Pharo Management said that the European bailouts are the "right policy", because it proves stability and "path dependency." Despite these comments, the market is making anything European pay today. Shares of CurrencyShares Euro Trust (NYSE: FXE) are down...
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The Fed's Plan in Plain English
Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 10:23am | 234Read More...On Yahoo's TechTicker, Aaron Task sat down with Axel Merk of Merk Mutual Funds to discuss what the Federal Reserve's $600 billion treasury purchase announcement really means. When asked, “Why is the Federal Reserve buying bonds?” Mr. Merk said, “It wants to lower interest rates, in the hopes that...
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Could We See Dow 38,000?
Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 12:54pm | 187Read More...Stock Trader's Almanac Jeffrey Hirsch thinks we could see the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 38,000 by the year 2025, but don't count on a huge ramp up any time soon. He believes that it'll take until 2017 to really sort through all of the financial issues that have been plaguing the country, and...
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Is The U.S. Japan 2.0? (EWJ, UUP)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 2:48pm | 213Read More...Aaron Task interviewed Stephen Roach non-executive chairman of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) Asia, and Yale University professor about whether the U.S. can escape the fate that has succumbed the Japanese, a generation of deflation. The ETF for Japanese companies is iShares MSCI Japan Index ETF (NYSE:...
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Playing The G20 (UUP, GLD)
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 12:04pm | 174Read More...The G20 is this weekend, and traders are anxious to see what comes out of it, regarding the potential currency war that is going on right now. Tim Geithner sent a letter before the start of the G20 requesting that they "commit refrain from exchange rate policies designed to achieve competitive...
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James Altucher Says Doom & Gloom Crowd All Wrong
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 2:50pm | 207Read More...James Altucher was interviewed by Aaron Task and Henry Blodget, and Altucher said that the doom & gloom crowd, people like Dr. Nouriel Roubini, are wrong, and have been wrong for quite some time regarding their outlook on the markets. Our brains are hard-wired to look for danger," Altucher says...
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Bernanke Admits Deflation
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 12:51pm | 129Read More...Aaron Task interviewed Todd Harrison on Tech! Ticker, and said that Ben Bernanke has admitted essentially to deflation. If deflation does indeed happen, the dollar would rally, benefiting PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (NYSE: UUP) and perhaps gold, which is seen as a deflation hedge. SPDR...
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Peter Schiff Says No Bubble In Gold (GLD, GDX)
Monday, October 18, 2010 - 12:47pm | 241Read More...Aaron Task interviewed Peter Schiff regarding the possibility of a bubble in gold, and Schiff says we are only in the beginning stages of the gold trade. “I think we're still relatively early in the game," Schiff said. "It's not rock bottom prices, but prices are not high for the metals, especially...
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Housing Market Going To Be Slow, Stodgy, For Years
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 4:38pm | 142Read More...Aaron Task interviewed Rick Sharga earlier regarding the housing market (NYSE: XHB), and Sharga believes the housing market will continue like this, for years. "If we didn't have government lending going on right now, there would virtually be no housing market. Lenders and loan servicers are...
