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Nokia Earnings: Can Lumia Sales Light Up Results?
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 23:42
Nokia is expected to announce its Q1 2013 earnings on April 18. The handset maker has come a long way since last year when its Symbian smartphone sales were falling fast and Windows Phone was relatively slow to pick up t...
Gold Dips Further
Wall Street Journal - 17 Apr 2013 23:00
Gold futures resumed their downward march Wednesday as pressure from a stronger dollar outweighed support from investors looking to re-enter the market after a record-setting plunge.
New Features of the iPhone 5
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 19:51
Apple returned to the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco to introduce its latest device, the long-awaited iPhone 5. Here are some of the new features they revealed.
Cold Spring Buffets Gas Funds
Wall Street Journal - 17 Apr 2013 19:48
Copperwood, Skylar, and other hedge funds saw losses in March as a winter chill upended a bet on lower demand for natural gas.
Stock Surge Linked to Lobbyist
Wall Street Journal - 17 Apr 2013 19:42
A health-care lobbyist who is a former congressional aide provided a key tip to a political-intelligence firm about a coming change in government policy. The firm's subsequent alert to Wall Street clients sparked a surge...
IEA: Clean-Energy Progress Has Stalled
Wall Street Journal - 17 Apr 2013 18:35
The world has made little progress in reducing the carbon content of its energy supplies in the past 20 years, despite trillions in investment, the International Energy Agency said.
RBS Buys Poorly Performing U.S. Home Loans
Wall Street Journal - 17 Apr 2013 18:32
RBS Securities, the U.S. investment-banking arm of the U.K.-taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland Group, is jumping into the market for poorly performing American home loans.
Fed's Bullard Says He's Ready To Increase QE As Inflation Is 'Too Low'
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 17:49
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard spoke in New York on Wednesday, warning that inflation remains too low and suggesting he'd be ready to increase the rate of asset purchases, or QE, to defend their target "from below...
Global 2000 Methodology: How We Crunch The Numbers
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 17:49
We compile our Global 2000 list by screening Interactive Data, Thomson Reuters Fundamentals and Worldscope databases via FactSet Research Systems for publicly traded companies. Using these databases as our primary source...
Sober Reasons To Own Gold
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 17:34
The current fall in the price of gold will, no doubt, bring out its critics who, will denigrate it as a relic of the past. The decline appears due mostly to speculative short-term trading and possibly, sales by banks rat...
Gold Buying 101
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 16:13
The best ways to buy gold.
Gold Will Get The Last Laugh On Central Banks
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 16:13
Intense recent selling of gold and other precious metals resulted from a confluence of factors. Gold plunged 10 percent Monday, ending the session at about $1,350--down nearly 30 percent (and more than $500) from its hig...
Apple's Most Notable Retail Stores
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 16:10
An around the world look at Apple's most noteworthy retail stores.
8 Goldilocks Dividend Stocks
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 16:00
Don't just mindlessly chase stocks with the highest yields.
Stay Alert For Signals Of Bearish Breakdown In Stocks
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 15:54Apple In Trouble If U.S. Phone Market Follows France, India, China
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 15:40
Apple became the largest company in the world by market capitalization on the strength of innovation in mobile phones. Fortunately for Apple, the last several years there has been a consumer trend to treat their phones a...
Apple's Most Notable Retail Stores
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 15:40
An around the world look at Apple's most noteworthy retail stores.
Why Stock Prices Should Keep Rising Despite Slowing Wage Growth
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 15:29
Now that Tax Day is behind us, stocks should go up, for at least the next couple of weeks for three reasons.
Kovalainen returns to help Caterham F1
CNN - 17 Apr 2013 15:11
Experienced driver Heikki Kovalainen is returning to Formula One to help the team that fired him, as Caterham bosses seek to bounce back after a poor start to the season.
Mattel's Storied Brands Show Age In Q1. It's Barbie's Siblings Who Shine
Forbes - 17 Apr 2013 13:55
Mattel's mature toys saw sales fall in the first quarter, but the toymaker's new Monster High and American Girl dolls remained wildly popular. The contrast between the success of the old and new toys again serves to emph...
Cerberus Partners to Bid for Gun Maker
Wall Street Journal - 17 Apr 2013 05:15
Cerberus CEO Stephen Feinberg and other partners of the private-equity firm that put a gun manufacturer up for sale after the Newtown, Conn., school shootings last year are forming a bid for the gun company.
Firms Pinch Payments to Suppliers
Wall Street Journal - 17 Apr 2013 05:05
P&G is planning to add weeks to the amount of time it takes to pay its suppliers, freeing up as much as $2 billion in cash for the consumer products giant.