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Bailout Broil Returning To Capitol Hill

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22 hrs ago 286 related
        

Top Salesmen For Financial Bailout Face Grilling POSTED: 4:29 am EST November 18, 2008 UPDATED: 4:55 am EST November 18, 2008 The two main men behind the $700 billion financial bailout are in for a grilling on Capitol Hill on...

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S&P 500 quarterly earnings down 21.6% from year ago

marketwatch.com
14 hrs ago 6 related
        

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Standard & Poor's said Tuesday early figures show that third-quarter operating earnings for the S&P 500 declined 21.6% from the year-ago period. About 94% of the S&P 500 has reported quarterly...

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S&P Picks and Pans: Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, Home Depot, Corning, New York Times

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16 hrs ago 4 related
        

Analysts' opinions on stocks in the news Tuesday HPQ announces preliminary results for October-quarter including non-GAAP EPS of $1.03 (GAAP $0.84), vs. $0.86 ($0.81), which is a penny above our estimate. We are lowering our...

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S&P Cuts Citadel Funds' Ratings

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15 hrs ago 4 related
        

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services cut its credit ratings on hedge-fund operator Citadel Investment Services' Kensington Global Strategies Fund Ltd. and Citadel Wellington LLC one notch each to just two levels above junk...

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What Does an Obama Presidency Mean for Tech?

businessweek.com
23 hrs ago 3 related
        

S&P analysts look at how the President-elect's policies could affect the sector. Among the potential winners: Google and HP Before he became President-elect of the U.S., Barack Obama, who ran on a platform of change, pledged a...

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Retail Stocks: Home Depot leads retail sector higher

marketwatch.com
16 hrs ago 3 related
        

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Retail shares opened higher on Tuesday after No. 1 home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. reported a smaller than expected profit decline and kept its full-year profit outlook even as it cut its...

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US Treasuries eke out some additional gains in quiet session

fxstreet.com
23 hrs ago 5 related
        

Markets: Fixed Income On Monday, global bonds eked out some moderate gains, continuing its multiday up-leg. For most of the day, equities were the driving force behind bond trading, with the eco data only having a very...

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Roper Industries Increases Dividend 13.8%

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13 hrs ago 5 related
        

SARASOTA, Fla., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Roper Industries, Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.08250 per share, payable on January 30, 2009, to stockholders of...

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Dollar rises vs yen, U.S. stocks dictate direction

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16 hrs ago 25 related
        

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar climbed versus the yen on Tuesday, boosted by a steady performance in the U.S. stock market after stronger-than-expected results from Hewlett Packard partly eased fears about a global slowdown.

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You may be the next Lehman Brothers

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12 hrs ago 1 related
        

On the surface, this financial crisis seems pretty complicated. Wall Street firms made convoluted bets on exotic mortgage securities, and those bets failed for a complex set of reasons. But in fact, investment banks went under...

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