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ATTENTION: Bloomberg's Matthew Lynn On The ECB Presidency And The Eurozone Crisis
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 1:51pm | 3065Read More...Benzinga's Zing Talk is switching to a new feed - please see this blog post for more information. You're listening to Zing Talk. Direct Download Subscribe in iTunes I'm Matthew Boesler. Joining me on the line now from London is Matthew Lynn, Bloomberg News columnist and author of the new...
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Questions Remain After Wall Street Collapse Report
Friday, January 28, 2011 - 12:00pm | 479Read More...Will we ever know what really caused the collapse of Wall Street? Bloomberg News columnist Jonathan Weil has some doubts. Weil says that to get to the heart of what went wrong with the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's report (released last Wednesday), you need not look any further than page...
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ADP Report Indicates The Addition Of 42,000 Jobs By The US Private Sector In July
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 9:22am | 99Read More...According to the ADP employment report released today, US private-sector firm employment has increased 42,000 in July. The employment number released by the ADP report far exceeds the expectations of a gain of 30,000 jobs by economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Joel Prakken, chairman of...
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Hedge Fund King Paulson Having A Rough Year (BAC, WFC, GLD, C)
Friday, July 16, 2010 - 3:00pm | 452Read More...John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made billions by predicting the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market, has fallen on hard times...relatively speaking. Bloomberg News has recently reported that Paulson's $9 billion Advantage fund lost 5.8% in the first six months of 2010. His Advantage...
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Is The Stock Market Wrong? (SPX)
Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 11:03am | 289Read More...We all know the stock market can be irrational. It can be brazenly optimistic such as Nasdaq 5,000; and it can be completely despondent like last year's Dow 6,550. So, with the S&P 500 (SPX) falling 14% since it's April peak, is the stock market acting irrationally once again? A little-noticed...
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Companies Dodge $60 Billion in Taxes
Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 5:18pm | 217Read More...Bloomberg is out with an interesting article this afternoon that says some U.S. Companies are using a tax dodge called “Transfer Pricing,” where they are allowed to legally avoid some income taxes by converting sales in one country to profits in another -- on paper only, and often in places where...
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Barron’s - Jim Mctague – A Political Operative Posing as a Financial Journalist
Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 11:09pm | 880Read More...I used to subscribe to Barrons. No more! It has gone down hill. I got tired of the blatant political right wing, diatribes. Like an editorial a few years ago that said that global warming was a myth. In this week’s Barrons there appears an article entitled, Congress May Wallop Smaller Banks, By...
