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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 The reach of a piggy cold Between 20-40 million people died around the globe during the 1918-19 outbreak of what became known as Spanish 'flu. That compares to a four-year death toll estimated at between 9-16 million as a result o...
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Friday, April 27, 2009 Growth and confidence on weekly calendar Equity investors are seemingly growing more confident by the day that the recession is a historic event. On Wednesday we'll find out with the release of first quarter growth whether or not b...
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Friday, April 24, 2009 Into each life some rain must fall The convenience of converting frozen orange juice concentrate into juice rather than squeezing oranges at home is a good example of how technology in the agriculture industry has helped convert a ...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 British pound roils on Chancellor Darling's words Despite Chancellor Darling's efforts to close the credibility gap between his November forecasts for the U.K. economy and those of the IMF and OECD, the painful consequence appear...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 The euro's deep, dark hole The single European currency closed Tuesday's at around $1.2945 making it two days in a row beneath $1.30. Traders love round numbers. They serve as psychological hurdles to jump over and under and whe...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Last man standing As we noted in Monday's Daily Jurojin before the market even opened, this week is likely to be marked by jitters ahead of next week's stress test results on the bigger U.S. banks. Monday turned out to be a free f...
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Monday, April 20, 2009 Market's own little stress testThe next several trading days will likely be marked by jitters over the early-May release of the government's own figures revealing the health of the largest 19 U.S. banks. Despite the trio of last ...
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Friday, April 17, 2009 Gold's cold shoulder It's been one month since the Fed announced the onset of quantitative easing stating that it would buy mortgage securities and government debt. According to a Bloomberg survey taken since that time, investors u...
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Monday, April 13, 2009 Is it time to get bearish on bonds? It's been about three weeks since the Federal Reserve announced its plan to buy $300 billion across the spectrum of maturities of government bonds. On the one hand the dollar reeled on the news o...
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