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Asian Stock Market Preview Olam, Wilmar, PTTEP

Asia will come under pressure today as the EuroCrisis continues to worsen.Greeks are said to have withdrawn at least 700 million euros ($890 million) from banks on Monday alone. Several banking sources said Tuesday was similar. Nearly a third of bank deposits were taken out in the first three months of this year. The Greek [...]

Private Equity Takes a Hit in Q1 2012

Most private-equity and hedge funds typically take 20 percent of investment gains as carried interest, on top of 2 percent of assets as a management fee to cover expenses, one exception is HCM www.heffcap.com that is purely success based. Traditional asset-management firms, which offer products such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, get most of [...]

Apple Inc NASDAQ:AAPL Seek Tax Holiday

Apple Inc NASDAQ:AAPL CEO Tim Cook has met with the speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Boehner. Apple has been under fire over legal tax and investment planning, recently Senator Tom Coburn said he is joining Senator Carl Levin to investigate Apple’s tax practices, although Coburn said the probe will look into [...]

Auto Sector Points to Recovery

The real story in this year’s rankings of automakers by their suppliers in the 12th annual study of OEM working relations is not their overall rankings, but rather the dramatic and continuing slide of Toyota and Honda, and the continuing improvement of Chrysler Group, General Motors and Ford since 2005. While still in first and [...]

Wall St PreMarket Gold, FX, Equities, Oil

Early indications suggested that stocks in economically sensitive sectors such as banks and those linked to natural resources would lead the decline. Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) fell 2.3 percent to $14.61 in premarket trade. Aluminum producer Alcoa (NYSE:AA) fell 1.2 percent to $8.95. The general move out of risky assets, such as equities and commodities, was [...]

Mark J. Lundeen Market Outlook

Markets on the Edge of Something Big Mark J. Lundeen In Early May, some potentially big things are happening that I want to bring to your attention. First, it appears that gold’s bear box is terminating. Remember, the step sum is a market sentiment indicator, and since February the price of gold has [...]

The FELDA IPO, DB, JPM, MS: Racism and Political Corruption in Malaysia

Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE:DB), JPMorgan Chase & Co.(NYSE:JPM), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) DB, JPM, MS are assisting Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak buy his way back in to office with an IPO that differentiates the subscription price on race, something that should not be supported by international financial institutions. The sham IPO purports to offer [...]

Cuba Investment Reform to Spark Growth

In April, a senior Communist Party official, Estaban Lazo Hernandez, said in a speech that Cuba will move nearly 50% of the country’s economic activity to the “nonstate” sector in the coming 5 yrs, up from 5% now. This is not capitalism for capitalism’s sake, and political reform is not part of the program. The [...]

Samsung Vs Apple: New Galaxy takes aim at iPhone

Samsung (KS:005930),(PK:SSNLF) unveils new Galaxy SmartPhone to tackle the Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone Samsung Electronics, the World’s largest mobile phone maker, said Friday that it unveiled its 3rd generation SmartPhone in the Galaxy series featuring the options of recognizing voice, face and motion. The Galaxy S3, running Google’s latest Android operating system Ice Cream Sandwich, [...]

The Marriott Rewards® Premier Credit Card a Must for Travellers

The Marriott Rewards® Premier Credit Card is a hotel rewards credit card that comes with FREE hotel night stays and instant BONUS points. To add to these rewards, cardholders will have the annual fee for the first year waived. Receive 50,000 BONUS Points – After your first purchase or balance transfer, you’ll also receive 1 [...]

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Private Equity Takes a Hit in Q1 2012

Most private-equity and hedge funds typically take 20 percent of investment gains as carried interest, on top of 2 percent of assets as a management fee to …