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Industry
Bank of America: We’ll Add Advisors in 2012
12 minutes ago from financial-planning.com
Even as the company sets out on a second round of cost-cutting in Project New BAC, chief executive officer Brian Moynihan said the company considers Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management one of its core businesses – and will increase efforts to…
Via @Ritholtz – Interesting Paper: Assessing the Performance of Funds of Hedge Funds – http://t.co/nOLmp1Ig
29 minutes ago from pipes.yahoo.com
Is Anyone Good at Picking Hedge Fund Managers?
29 hours ago on ritholtz.com
Economy
The Real Reason Larry Summers Didn’t Advocate a $1 Trillion Stimulus
20.3 hours ago from motherjones.com
At this point, it’s not clear to me how useful it is to keep re-litigating the role Larry Summers played in deciding how big the 2009 stimulus package should be. Lots of different participants have given their views, and there’s simply a…
Larry and the Invisibles
26.6 hours ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
The Stock Market Loves President Obama
23.5 hours ago from blogs.wsj.com
AP It’ll be tough for the Obama haters to argue against this juicy little nugget. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has surged 60% since Barack Obama was inaugurated as president three years ago, according to research firm Bespoke…
17.7 hours ago from modeledbehavior.com
Dean keeps saying It is also important to note that the financial crisis has little direct relevance to the current weakness of the economy. The problem is simply that there is nothing to replace the demand generated by the housing bubble. Consumption is…
The 70s Don’t Look Like This Downturn
29.8 hours ago on cepr.net
Index Funds
ETF hit home? Investment advisers piling into exchange-traded funds
Data shows investment managers embracing passive funds with a passion; low fees a big…
4.4 hours ago on investmentnews.com
SPY, The 1st US ETF, Now A $100 Billion Fund
Nineteen years and a lot of surprise later, SPY crosses the $1 billion…
4 days ago on indexuniverse.com
China
Eight Industries the U.S. Has Lost to China
34 minutes ago from 247wallst.com
Americans are used to the U.S. being the leader, or a top-ranked nation, in many areas. But in a number of industries and businesses, the U.S. has lost that first place, usually to China. While some, such as coal production, may not come as a surprise…
Apple
Apple now the largest buyer of semiconductors according to Gartner
No one would be shocked to learn that Apple is a major purchaser of semiconductors. Heck, hearing that the company is number one on that list might not even raise too many eyebrows. But, what if you we told you last year the Cupertino crew wasn’t…
1.9 hours ago on engadget.com
Will This Be Apple’s First $40 Billion Quarter?
Everyone is expecting a record quarter from Apple, which reports earnings today. “We expect a big quarter from Apple,” writes analyst Colin Gillis of BGC in a research note, “and we expect most investors expect a big quarter…
13 minutes on techcrunch.com
Posted on January 24, 2012 by Scott Bell
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