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Media outlets The Guardian, CNN International, Financial Times, Reuters and The Economist have teamed up to form an advertising alliance called Pangea, according to Business Insider. The idea behind the new association is gaining the necessary scale to compete with Internet ad giants like...

The predictions for 2015 have started. From whether oil will continue to hover around current prices to whether Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) will continue to grow, bets are being placed on almost everything. Kenneth Cukier, data editor at The Economist, was on CNBC recently to discuss his...

Carl Icahn was asked by The Economist to write an article on how investors could profit in 2015. "At the risk of being a bit facetious, I would say: become a Twitter follower and read my future tweets," Icahn humorously wrote. The billionaire investor went on to offer investors some...

There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful or just down right comical. 1. CNNMoney.com CNNMoney.com ( @CNNMoney ) tweeted out this morning about Microsoft (NASDAQ...

The Economist's Greg Ip appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Thursday morning where he discussed the ups and downs of the Fed maintaining low interest rates while tapering down bond buying. "I'm puzzling over why the market is so excited over [tapering]," Said Ip. "If you go back to May when [...

Futures Slip on Spanish Fears U.S. equity futures slipped in early Friday trade as fears of the finances of Spanish banks resurfaced. The Spanish government has placed a freeze on evictions of homes due to increasing suicide rates as people lose their homes, which will be costly to the banks in...

Futures rise despite fiscal cliff fears. U.S. equity futures rose on early Wednesday trading despite renewed fears over the fiscal cliff. Investors may have become hopeful of a deal in Washington when yesterday, the White House announced that President Obama is set to speak today on the subject....

The latest Economist magazine has a giant octopus on the cover with the headline, "Leviathan Inc – The State goes back into business." The danger according to the Economist is industrial policy. When it comes to the USA the Economist has it wrong. The fact that the U.S has no industrial policy...

The Economist in an article dated July 8, thinks the EU will muddle through the current crisis. Because critics underestimate the European art of compromise and overlook the determination in Europe to make the euro stick. Pulling the euro apart would be ruinously costly and threaten the EU’s...