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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Intel Corp. reported the best fourth-quarter earnings in company history Thursday, as both the chipmaker’s revenue and profit set new records.
Intel posted earnings per share of 59 cents. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had forecast earnings of 53 cents per share.

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Revenue for the Santa Clara, Calif., company rose 8% over the [...]

Bruce Berkowitz spends his days like a lot of other fund managers: reading economic reports, chatting about investment ideas with his chief research officer and meeting with companies he’s thinking of adding to the portfolio. But his ho-hum routine is producing something many managers can’t seem to match these days—he beats Standard & Poor’s 500-stock [...]

With stock indices at 2-year highs, even the much-beleaguered financials have rallied, spurred most recently by
Bank of America’s (
BAC ) $2.8 billion settlement with
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae . A few weeks ago I highlighted my
favorite financials , namely the large-cap Asian firms like
Mizuho Financial (
MFG ) ,
Mitsubishi UFJ (
MTU ) and
Nomura Holding (
NMR ) [...]

Nostalgia is understandable as yet another year draws to a close, but why are buyout firms and acquisitive companies once again stalking their old prey?
Just before Christmas, the crafts retailer
Jo-Ann Stores (
JAS ) agreed to be sold for $1.6 billion to Leonard Green & Partners. The Los Angeles buyout firm had looked at Jo-Ann in [...]

As the WSJ recently pointed out, there is a bizarre disconnect between equities and currency markets regarding the Euro. On the one hand, the Euro was the world’s worst performing major currency in 2010, and some analysts insist that its breakup is inevitable. On the other hand, stock market investors are increasingly bullish about Europe: [...]

Thru the end of the week we will be publishing some of the Currency Currents past we liked …and think still contain some thinking points for markets as we move into 2011…
From 10 November 2009
Quotable
“Oh, most excellent gold!” observed Columbus while on his first voyage to America.”Who has gold has a treasure [that] even helps [...]

A broad stock market index would have delivered a perfectly good year in 2010. The S&P 500 rose 12%, and after a 27% gain in 2009, stocks are just 13% off its 2007 peak. Not bad. But what about those investors who made big bets on a particular sector, or country? How did wind-energy optimists [...]

Thru the end of the week we will be publishing some of the Currency Currents past we liked …and think still contain some thinking points for markets as we move into 2011…
From 10 November 2009
Quotable
“Oh, most excellent gold!” observed Columbus while on his first voyage to America.”Who has gold has a treasure [that] even helps [...]

A free Club EWI report reveals why bonds do not provide shelter from the storm

By Elliott Wave International
TREASURIES — the very name conveys a thing that is secure, protected, and will appreciate over time. Otherwise, it’d be [...]

Investors seem to have an insatiable appetite for fixed-income products these days. But which types of bonds offer the best deals?
High-Yield Bonds

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One man’s junk is another man’s treasure, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the bond world. A high-yield—or “junk”—bond is debt issued by a firm whose credit record isn’t the best, so [...]