May 17, 2012 -- Updated May 16, 2012 21:55 HKT
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Mariah Carey Dumps on X-Factor
Mariah Carey has come out saying she doesn’t care about Britney Spears joining X Factor. What seems to be a rage of jealousy the ‘Hero’ singer seemed motionless when asked her thoughts about Britney officially joining the judging panel along with Demi Lovato, Simon Cowell and L.A Reid. “You think I focus on that stuff? [...]
Jennifer Lopez Dumps American Idol
American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez is unsure of a return for a third season. JLo was contracted for one season on the hit reality show American Idol at the beginning of 2011 and after the show’s much success she returned for a second stint. During the Ellen show the former judge asked JLo if she [...]
Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) Earnings Review
Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) beats the Street, F-Q-2 profit rise Deere posted a 17% rise in profits for its Fiscal Q-2 Wednesday and boosted its outlook for the year, predicting record-high global demand for farm equipment. The company beat Wall Street expectations on net income and revenue, posting a profit of $1.06-B, or 2.61/shr, up [...]
South Korea Economic Update
South Korea needs a more business-friendly corporate policy South Korean government needs to take more business-friendly corporate policy in a bid to help domestic large corporations maintain their competitiveness in the global market, head of a local think tank said Tuesday. “Chaebol and business conglomerate have been viewed as the main culprit for bi-polarization in [...]
Time-Warner, Inc. (NYSE:TWX) a Hollywood Hit
Warner Bros. Pictures, a division of Time-Warner, Inc. (NYSE:TWX) crossed the US$1-B mark at the International box office for the 12th consecutive year “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” and “Wrath of the Titans” are among the films adding to the success. The studio announced it reached the mark in [...]
Fishing in Florida Keys
The Keys are surrounded by miles of shallow sand and grass flats. Here, species like the bonefish root out crabs, shrimp and small fish in water as shallow as six inches. Beautiful flats are found on the Atlantic side of the Keys and in the fabled backcountry, a region of uninhabited mangrove islands on the [...]
Supra Boga Lestari IPO in Jakarta
Supra Boga Lestari, the operator of Indonesia supermarket chains Ranch Market and Farmers Market grocery stores, plans to raise Rp 160 billion ($17 million) in an initial public offering as it expands into islands beyond Java, where all its stores are located at present. Sugiyanto Wibawa, operational director at Supra Boga, said that same-store growth [...]
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 [...]
Insiders Selling FaceBook NASDAQ:FB
Insiders Selling FaceBook NASDAQ:FB 84 million more shares up for grabs. Strong retail demand has been generated for FaceBook however insiders are exiting on that buying as the IPO becomes more of a media event than an IPO. Additional shares will be sold by early investors including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Accel Partners’ James Breyer [...]
The Oversold List, IDCN, SPOW, JPM
Sky Power Solutions Corp (OTC:SPOW), INDOCAN RESOURCES INC (PINK:IDCN), JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) Sky Power Solutions Corp (OTC:SPOW) Looks way oversold this morning, there has been what appears to be a single seller for several days, this should run to 5c after another 50 to 100k of volume. This one is rumored to be another [...]
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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 …
US President Barack Obama’s bank of choice, JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM)
JPMorgan Chase & Co. according to US President Obama, despite the bank’s recent $2-B trading, is …
The Hot List
Sky Power Solutions Corp (OTC:SPOW), INDOCAN RESOURCES INC (PINK:IDCN), JP Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM)
Sky Power Solutions Corp (OTC:SPOW)
Looks way oversold this morning, there has been what appears to …






















