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Thailand holds Emergency Meeting

The Thai government held an emergency meeting Sunday to resolve a political crisis that has crippled the country since March.
Authorities said they discussed dislodging protesters from the capital as well as how to address their grievances.
Thailand’s cabinet held an emergency meeting Sunday on how to quell the long-running standoff with anti-government “Red Shirts” [...]

Ebeling Heffernan Issue Strong Buy on JOHNSON CONTROLS, Inc. NYSE:JCI

With a solid second quarter and full-year forecast, Johnson Controls (JCI) has earned a Strong Buy rating from Shayne Heffernan of Ebeling Heffernan. The price target on JCI has been set at $52 by Ebeling Heffernan.
Johnson Controls has boosted its full-year earnings forecast to $1.90 to $1.95 a share from the earlier guidance of $1.70 [...]

The US markets closed mixed last Friday capping a very impressive July

Re-cap of the US Stock Market Action for the week ending July 31, 2009
The DJIA added 8.6% in July, its best monthly gain since October 2002, as most companies topped analysts’ Q-2 profit estimates since records began in 1993. Other major indexes also ended higher in July for a fifth straight monthly advance.
On the week [...]

EH LTN Exclusive: Rise of India and China to affect world business leadership model

The rise of India and China on the global stage means that the leadership models of both countries will affect the global business leadership model, the high profile Asia Society announced on Friday.
“One of the biggest differences between western countries and India and China is the notion of the ’self’, which in the former is [...]

Hot Topic: Crude Oil jumps 5% on positive economic recovery data

(LTN Exclusive) — Crude Oil rose more than 5% to near US$67 bbl on Thursday as economic data sparked fresh optimism that the recession is at an end.
Support also came from data showing Euro Zone economic sentiment increased in July to its highest level in eight months, helping to lift European equities to their highest [...]

DRYS Beats Estimates

(LTN Exclusive) — As regular readers would know DRYS is has been one of my favorites for some time, both myself and Paul have published a number of research articles on this one including a report on how DRYS was trading well behind the Baltic Index.
DRYS and GE marked our financial services divisions first “house [...]

China Markets Advance

(LTN Exclusive) — Mainland stocks closed higher at lunchtime, recapturing most of Wednesday’s sharp dip after a senior central banker reiterated that current fiscal stimulus monetary policies would not be reversed anytime soon. The Shanghai Composite Index closed the session at 3,371 points with financial stocks leading the rally.
People’s Bank of China vice governor Su [...]