Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Microsoft announced its first deal more after the purchase of Yahoo Inc, as agreed to acquire the company for research on the Internet Greenfield Online Inc for 486 million dollars, Reuters reported.
The deal provides access to the Microsoft site of Greenfield for comparisons of prices and consumer comments.
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Tags: companies, company, Internet, microsoft, yahoo
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Today’s stock session in Asia passed into negative moods are the result of increased fears of a new bankruptcy among Japanese companies in the construction sector and lower ratings of leading representatives of the regional economy - Esprit Holdings and China Mobile.
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Tags: asia, bankruptcy, economy, exchange, Forex, Markets, shares, stock
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Question: After reading thru your column Missing the Boat on International Funds, I’m totally on board with staying away from U.S. stocks. However, I have not found any info on which overseas stocks to look into. Can you give me any insight into foreign ETFs?
Tags: Business, Forex, Internet, market, Money
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
The chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke said the financial crisis in the U.S. and high inflation harm economy and put a serious test before the central bank in its attempts to restore stability in the market. This happened during the Bernanke speech before the heads of leading central banks in the world who have collected at its annual meeting in the United States.
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Tags: bank, banks, crisis, currency, dollar, dollars, economy, euro, federal reserve, finances, financial, financial crisis, inflation, market, Markets, oil, price of oil, raw materials, unemployment
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Yesterday was registered in the U.S. serial bank failure since the beginning of the year after the Federal Corporation for deposit insurance (FDIC) closed underrun in Kansas Columbian Bank and Trus. So the bank failure in the biggest economy since the beginning of the year has already made nine.
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Tags: bank, bank failure, banks, corporation, corporations, credit, credit crisis, crisis, debit cards, deposits, dollars, economy, financial, fund, funds, insurance
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Polish anti-monopoly authorities submitted a complaint against Microsoft in the European Commission.
In their company violates competition law, because the Polish traders sell laptop only installed operating system Windows.
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Tags: companies, company, computers, corporations, european commission, law, microsoft, monopoly, windows
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Full table of contents from the August issue.
Tags: Business, Forex, Internet, market, Money
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
On the New York Stock Exchange on oil is more expensive, and contracts for the supply of oil for the month of September is concluded at a price for barrel petrol of 113.01 dollars. This price is lower by 1.44 of the price on Monday, and an absolute maximum stated on the New York Stock Exchange on 11 July this year was 34.26 dollars more than the price yesterday.
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Tags: barrel, contract, currency, dollar, exchange, investment, investors, oil, stock exchange, transactions
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
May be reduced number of congestion once the “Opel” car set up to exchange information during the movement.
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Tags: cars, details, traffic agreement
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Euro Commission stated that cigarettes that are sold within the EU has up till 2011 must be securing against fire.
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Tags: americas, cigarettes, European Union, fires, statistics
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