Citigroup passes Tesoro on SP 500
Tesoro Corp. has dropped to the 188 spot on the S&P 500, Forbes.com reported Wednesday. San Antonio-based Tesoro (NYSE: TSO) lost the 187 spot to Citigroup (NYSE: C), the New York financial...
View ArticleToyota Poised to Regain Crown as Worlds Biggest Carmaker
Toyota Motor Co., poised to regain its title as the world's biggest carmaker this year, said its vehicle sales may rise 2% next year to a record amount, led by demand from overseas markets. ...
View ArticleAlbany singers are ringers for world record
An Albany, New York, singing event has officially been accepted as a world record by recordsetter.com. Albany now holds the record for the most people (488) to sing Jingle Bells while ringing jingle ...
View ArticleLAKERS NOTEBOOK World Peace puts on a Christmas display
PHOTOS It went beyond World Peace's last name representing an ideal many clamor for this holiday season. He delivered a bundle full of stocking stuffers in the Lakers' 100-94 victory ...
View ArticleShell gets extension on decision to buy land for Beaver County plant
Shell Oil Co. will have another six months to consider buying land for a new petrochemical plant in Beaver County, according to an announcement Wednesday morning from Horsehead ...
View ArticleThe rise of the attention economy
My standard answer is that it changes the balance of power between individuals and institutions. But this was a sophisticated audience of economists and students, gathered for the 20th anniversary of ...
View ArticleTop 10 business website mistakes
After 15 years of building and promoting websites, Ive seen CEOs and business owners time and again assume their team or vendor is doing everything needed to generate as many leads as possible from ...
View ArticleBusiness and markets in 2012 what we have learned
The UK economy was flat. Share prices and government bond yields ended the year roughly where they started. Oil still costs more than $100 a barrel. Glencore/Xstrata aside, there were few big mergers ...
View ArticleChina launches worlds longest bullet train
CHINA has opened the world's longest high-speed rail line that more than halves the travel time from the capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in the ...
View ArticleGoogle Apps Challenge Microsofts Business
, consists of applications for document writing, collaboration, and text and video communications -- all cloud-based, so that none of the software is on an office worker's computer. Google has ...
View ArticleWednesday Sector Leaders Non-Precious Metals Non-Metallic Mining Computer...
In trading on Wednesday, non-precious metals & non-metallic mining shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.3%. Leading the group were shares of Western Copper and Gold (WRN), up ...
View ArticleTextron Achieves 55 Analyst Rank Surpassing International Paper
ETF Channel . Below is a chart of Textron Inc. versus International Paper Co. plotting their respective rank within the S&P 500 over time (TXT plotted in blue; IP plotted in green): In forming ...
View ArticleCitigroup Takes Over 187 Spot From Tesoro Corporation
ETF Channel . Below is a chart of Citigroup Inc versus Tesoro Corporation plotting their respective rank within the S&P 500 over time (C plotted in blue; TSO plotted in green): In forming the ...
View ArticleSub-Prime Lending Never Died -- Bizarre Story of World Acceptance Stock Up 327
BAC ), which remain relative basket cases to this day, would have brought you a roughly 50% gain. And the smarter banks would have reaped you bigger profits - 60% or so at JPMorgan ...
View ArticleCPI cant repay debt sells Bella wedding photo business
Portrait studio operator CPI Corp. has sold substantially all the wedding business assets of its Bella Pictures Holdings unit to a Pennsylvania-based wedding photo, video and disc jockey service, as ...
View ArticleWorld’s longest high-speed rail opens
A bullet train pulls in to the Beijing West Railway Station on Wednesday morning. The world's longest high-speed rail route linking Beijing and Guangzhou started operation on Wednesday. Photo: ...
View ArticleFiscal Cliff Drags Down Midwest Manufacturing Activity
When it comes to the so-called fiscal cliff, some regional manufacturers have raised the white flag. Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City indicate that manufacturing activity in a ...
View ArticleForeigners have no business telling us how to run our polls and other affairs
The caption said "From Left: Danish ambassador Geert Aagaard, British High Commissioner Christian Turner, IEBC chairperson Isaack Hassan and US Embassy charg d'affaires Robert F. Godec in ...
View ArticleGoogle Gaining Ground On Microsoft In Business Market
Google has begun to make such a name for itself in the business and enterprise market. In many ways, Google has been there for many years, first as the search engine of choice (searching the web has ...
View ArticleEritrea Citizen Entrepreneurs to Benefit From Industry Sector
Asmara - The Ministry of Trade and Industry has called on citizen entrepreneurs to become beneficiaries of the investment prospects in the industry sector. Giving an elaboration as regards the paper ...
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