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Global Economic Calendar

13 hours ago ago from Forex Impact

February 9- 12, 2010 Date Time* Currency Event Actual Forecast Previous Tue Feb 9 - GBP NIESR Gross Domestic Product Estimate (JAN) - - 0.3% Wed Feb 10 5:30 AM GBP Bank of England Quarterly Inflation Report - - - - 7:30 PM AUD Employment Change (JAN) - 15.0K 35.2K ...

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Conn's Swoons On Extremely Weak Q4 Sales - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com

20 hours ago ago from Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com

By Eric Savitz Now, here's a retailer that had an extremely nasty holiday season. Conn's (CONN) , a Texas-based chain that sells consumer electronics, furniture, mattresses and other goods in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, this morning announced highly disappointing results for the fiscal fourth quarter ended January 31. The company reported sales for the quarter of $171 million, down 30.3% from a year ago; same store sales ...

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Map of 2009 Twin Cities Foreclosures & Short Sales

21 hours ago ago from Twin Cities Real Estate Blog

It's that time again, the annual Residential Real Estate Activity Report for 2009 has just been released!  There's good information in there but the key infoporn graphic for me is the share of sales in 2009 that were lender-mediated: If you need to get an even more detailed image than what you can get by clicking on the image above, see page 16 of the report . Why do I find this graphic so interesting?  First of all, the trend ...

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Intelius Californian Fraud Case

1 hour, 26 minutes ago ago from Music And Art

We often get the offers of one company’s services almost in our daily life. The company makes the advertisement as the means of marketing. They have to fight against other companies, which offer the same services or products, and sometimes the company is using every chance, even the small or the negative ones. This is very dangerous and may cause loss for the consumers. We can see many examples about how these companies rule their management ...

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Youth won’t tolerate bad service

5 hours ago ago from Charlie's BLOG

Johannesburg Younger, more impatient consumers were inclined to complain or switch providers as a result of bad service, global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company Accenture said in a report on Tuesday. The group's annual consumer satisfaction survey revealed that consumers in emerging markets of South Africa, India, China and Brazil expected better service for their buck than five years ago. Countries ...

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The burger and beverage recession

17 hours ago ago from CNN Money

The burger and beverage recession By Paul R. La Monica , editor at large February 9, 2010: 12:37 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Want more proof that the U.S. economy is still in a fragile state? Consider this. People are still holding back on buying burgers, soda and beer. So much for fast food, soft drinks and booze being recession-proof. Sure, the worst of this downturn may in fact be over, but don't tell that to Coca-Cola ( KO ...

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BBC News - Coca Cola sales boosted by new markets

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Coca Cola is targeting developing markets for growth Coca Cola saw sales and profits rise last year following a strong performance in developing markets. The world's largest soft drinks company reported profits of $6.82bn ( 4.36bn) for 2009 - a rise of 17% on the previous year. It also saw a strong end to the year with fourth-quarter profits up 55%, and global sales up 5%. Sales grew sharply in developing markets including ...

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Airgas Rejects Air Products' Hostile Bid,Says 'Undervalues' Firm - FOXBusiness.com

11 hours ago ago from FOX Business

Existing users please login User Name: Password: Remember me on this computer Home / Markets / Commodities Tuesday, February 09, 2010 Airgas Rejects Air Products' Hostile Bid,Says 'Undervalues' Firm   By Kathy Shwiff Dow Jones Newswires   DOW JONES ...

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Percentage Of Oversold Stocks Climbs - MarketBeat - WSJ

18 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

By Steven Russolillo The S&P 500's pullback off mid-January highs is sharpest since index bottomed in March. Bespoke Investment Group points out 305 stocks, or 61% of the index, are oversold highest percentage since March, with only 25 overbought. And nine of the 25 names are consumer discretionary, so the market seems to be giving the consumer a lot more credit today than it was a year ago, firm says. Additionally, three overbought stocks ...

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BBC News - What ever happened to the dotcom millionaires?

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By Alex Hudson BBC News Benjamin Cohen admits he was an arrogant and difficult 17 year old The office that once housed a dot.com company valued at 20m is now just a storage closet filled with toilet products and a vacuum cleaner. It's a very surreal experience. It's actually quite depressing, says Benjamin Cohen, returning to the place where 10 years ago, aged just 17, he became the UK's first dotcom millionaire - ...

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