Business News:

Toyota discounts boost sales 11 Mar 2010, 11:18 pm

DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unprecedented discounts after a series of damaging recalls boosted Toyota Motor Corp's U.S. sales in early March, as U.S. regulators weighed new auto safety measures.

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S&P 500 hits 17-month high as banks lift Wall Street 11 Mar 2010, 10:32 pm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 hit a 17-month closing high as rising bank shares led a late rally that lifted stocks on Thursday, more than offsetting worries China may move to cool its overheating. […]

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Asia stocks head for 5th week of gains 11 Mar 2010, 10:30 pm

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks edged up on Friday, heading for a fifth straight week of rises, with energy stocks firm as oil held above $82 a barrel and financials ticking higher after U.S. talks. […]

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Examiner sees accounting gimmicks in Lehman demise 11 Mar 2010, 10:11 pm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc used accounting gimmicks and had been insolvent for weeks before it filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, but there was not extensive wrongdoing, a. […]

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U.S. "very close" to job growth: Summers 11 Mar 2010, 9:37 pm

HOUSTON (Reuters) - White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Thursday that the United States is "very close" to the point where job growth can begin. (Reporting by Chris Baltimore; editing b. […]

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GMAC's pay policy called into question 11 Mar 2010, 10:34 pm

A US congressional panel criticised GMAC over its pay policy for top executives and for failing clearly to outline how the home and motor lender will return to profitability

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France and UK seek hedge fund deal 11 Mar 2010, 9:47 pm

Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy are to try to hammer out a compromise deal over European Union reforms that the US and UK believe could damage the hedge fund and private equity industries

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Human element is weakest link in bank security 11 Mar 2010, 9:35 pm

How Hervé Falciani obtained details about more than 15% of the customers of HSBC's Geneva private bank may remain a secret, but the repercussions are being felt

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Lehman report faults executives 11 Mar 2010, 9:26 pm

A one-year probe into the collapse of Lehman Brothers found 'credible evidence' that top executives, including the former chief Dick Fuld, approved misleading financial statements and used an 'account. […]

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'Repo 105' accounting in focus 11 Mar 2010, 9:16 pm

By the time Lehman Brothers imploded, $25bn in capital was supporting $700bn of assets and liabilities, a leverage ratio that was regarded as extremely high

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Archive for August, 2007

FOREX - Trading Foreign Currency

Friday, August 31st, 2007

The trade of FOREX is all about trading the foreign currency, stocks, and the similar type of products. The currency of a country is weighed against the currency of another country to determine the value. The value of this foreign currency is taken into account while trading of stocks on the markets of FOREX. The [...]

Forex Raptor is Not a Game

Friday, August 31st, 2007

There are two reason any trader would ever consider any piece of software and really, this holds true in any market or program or software except for games. Reason one is that it can profit us by using us. Reason two is that it gives us back time, is efficient and makes life better for [...]

Sub Prime Mortgages - The Truth Behind The Crisis

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Sub prime mortgages have been covered in the press a lot recently as a result of the lending crisis that has damaged the global economy. The crisis has come about as a result of the nature of sub prime mortgages because they primarily target individuals with bad credit. Many have lost their homes because they [...]

When Should I Start Investing?

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

The economy is suffering from the credit crisis and rising energy and food prices. We thought everything would clear by the mid of 2008, but it looks like the downturn would stay with us for a little longer. Our money gets eroded by inflation daily. Zimbabwe is coming up with 100 billion dollar notes. In [...]

Is No Monkey Business a Scam?

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

No Monkey Business is an online money generating program designed by Huey Lee from Los Altos, California. Huey is married and is father of a girl. Huey has struggled for years together and spent over $30000 of his hard earned money trying to find out how to make money on internet the easy way. And [...]

Leverage and Commodities Trading - The Basic Terminology

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Commodities trading, like any other commodity trading, utilize a principle called “leverage” to expand the reach of the investor. Much like mechanical leverage in your old physics class, financial leverage is about multiplying the amount of motion you get from the energy you put into a transaction.
How it works is like this: Instead of ponying [...]

Currency Trading Tutorial - Getting Started in Currency Trading

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

This is a concise currency trading tutorial, which will give you all you need to get started in currency trading and develop a trading system for triple digit annual gains…
The first point you need to keep in mind is 95% of traders lose and only 5% win. While anyone has the ability to learn currency [...]

The Humble Power of Promo Codes

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

One of the best ways to save money is to know thy self. As of today your fat pay check doesn’t amount to anything so it is better to call it your thin pay check not fat as people at this point in time work doubly hard compared to our parents’ generation. The generation of [...]

Forex Factory - How To Prepare For Your Trading Session

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

The Forex Factory web site is a very popular site among developing Forex traders as shown by an Alexa rating of around 5,400 most visited sites on the web. Any site within the first 100,000 gets serious traffic!
Forex Factory provides 3 main services listed in my personal order of importance:

Calendar
News
Forum

Calendar
The main attraction of the Forex [...]

Forex Trading - Advanced Forecasting Methods For Profit

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Today we have advanced forecasting methods at our disposal as the power of computers has increased, they can do more in less time than ever before and the computer that sits on your desk top, is far more powerful than the one that helped land man on the moon. So let’s look at advanced forecasting [...]