Posts Tagged ‘Business’
In Forbes magazine’s rankings of the 50 most valuable sports clubs in the world, a majority are NFL clubs. But how can a sport with limited worldwide appeal outperform clubs that play the other kind of football (soccer), which marketing experts say has at least 10 times as many fans worldwide?
One answer lies in the [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Illinois recently passed a budget that ticked off a lot of business people because it raised taxes on companies and individuals.
You might count Caterpillar CEO Douglas Oberhelman as among the aggrieved.
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In a letter to Gov. Pat Quinn, Oberhelman says he wants to talk about how to move the state toward real [...]

(MONEY Magazine) — Late last year you caught a break. Congress reached a deal that extended the Bush-era tax cuts for two years and renewed perks like the sales tax deduction and the tuition write-off for non-itemizers.
Through 2012, the top marginal income tax rate will continue to be 35%, and you’ll keep paying [...]
Managing a portfolio is like running a business. And because we still live in a relatively free country, for the time being at least, you should take advantage of the fact that nobody else needs to know your business. Same goes for your portfolio positions: They’re your business alone.
If I own
Nomura (
NMR ) then I’m [...]

Today is Martin Luther King Day here in the US and both the stock and bond markets are closed as it is a bank holiday. Yet the forex market is open for business! This really highlights the international influence of this market and why it is the largest and fast-growing financial market in the world.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama blasted Senate Republicans on Monday for blocking a small business assistance bill, calling their opposition “pure partisan politics.”
The country needs a “full scale attack” on economic sluggishness, he told reporters at the White House.
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“While we have taken a series of measures and come a long way … [...]

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“My friend is no fool. He is intelligent and eloquent, and I always learn something from his side of our endless arguments. But one thought — a self-evident truth that I’d hope would occur to every rational person — has apparently never crossed his mind: that government is force. Like so many people, he [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Federal regulators will investigate whether Apple’s business practices harm competition in the market for software used on mobile devices, according to a published report.
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to review allegations that Apple has shut other companies out of the important new computing platform, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
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From an outside perspective, some might be shocked at how quickly the market can flip-flop from market euphoria to fear on what seems almost like a daily occurrence. It’s like John Kerry on steroids! I kid, I kid. But on a more serious note, the market can wipe out days of gains in a single [...]
