nytimes.com - 11/3/2009
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PARIS — The European Union said Tuesday that the 27-nation bloc would be out of recession by the end of the year, and it revised its forecast for economic growth in 2010 upward. But it also warned that rising unemployment would keep the recovery in check, and that European banks were not yet ...
bloomberg.com - 11/4/2009
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bloomberg.com —
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- News Corp. , owner
of the Twentieth Century Fox film studio, raised its...
full-year forecast after reporting first-quarter profit gained 11 percent, driven by box- office gains from films including “Ice Age.” Net income increased ...
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News Corp. Lifts Forecast as Profit Beats Estimates ...
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The Mess That Greenspan Made —
TOP STORIES Lloyds and RBS cut down to size - BBC India buys 200 tonnes of IMF gold - Mineweb Government Statistics and Lies - Texas Straight Talk Berkshire Buys Burlington in Buffett’s Biggest Deal - Bloomberg He earned $53 million opening doors to CalPERS money - LA Times The Real Pending Crisis: Public Pensions - TownHall The story so far, in one picture - Krugman, NY Times Thinking the Unthinkable - Kunstler, CFN How Big Banks Fleece You - Daily Beast ...
Midday Market Update: Wall Street Down Despite Factory Orders
ETF Trends —
ETF Update Stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are slightly negative this morning as the markets process news about factory orders and a big deal between Berkshire Hathaway and Burlington Northern Santa Fe worth billions. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B ...
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