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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 [...]

Dean Foods (NYSE:DF) Shows Strength

Dean Foods (NYSE:DF) trading at 52 wk highs Company Profile: Dean Foods Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food and beverage company in the United States. It manufactures, markets, and distributes various branded and private label dairy case products, including half-and-half, sour and whipping cream, dairy coffee creamers, and ice cream mix; ice [...]

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 Economics of Energy in Peru

Increases in the production of natural gas and the opening of South America’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant have enabled Peru to become a nat ural gas exporter despite rising domestic consumption. Peru has the potential to be a significant producer of both natural gas and petroleum due to its untapped reserves and rising [...]

ASEAN Market Preview, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

History shows that it is time for the S&P 500 to pull a repeat of 2010 and 2011, sell in May and go away as the saying goes, when a traditional mid-year pullback followed an April peak, and that smart investors are selling U.S. stocks after highs reached earlier in the month. As Warren Buffett [...]

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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 …