The largest U.S. companies are beating the average stock in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by the most in more than a decade, fueled by rising dividends, valuations 31 percent below the historical average and fear. Companies in the S&P 100 from Apple Inc. to Bank of America Corp. (BAC) have gained 7.7 percent…
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Nasdaq Trading Glitch During Facebook IPO Has Little Effect On Investor Confidence – Huffington Post
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Moneycontrol.comNasdaq Trading Glitch During Facebook IPO Has Little Effect On Investor ConfidenceHuffington PostBy John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) – It's crisis communications 101 for Corporate America: when a company bungles an event as big as th…
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Facebook IPO glitch: Nasdaq plays tough with angry clients – Economic Times
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NDTVFacebook IPO glitch: Nasdaq plays tough with angry clientsEconomic TimesNEW YORK: It's crisis communications 101 for Corporate America: when a company bungles an event as big as the Facebook IPO, alienates customers, and spawns lawsuits and reg…
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Analysis: Nasdaq plays tough with clients angry over Facebook – Reuters
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BloombergAnalysis: Nasdaq plays tough with clients angry over FacebookReutersBy John McCrank | NEW YORK (Reuters) – It's crisis communications 101 for Corporate America: when a company bungles an event as big as the Facebook IPO, alienates customer…
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This Is Small Business in America: Burdened, Crushed, Doomed
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If you make it increasingly costly and risky to open a small enterprise, then no wonder unemployment remains high.
You hear a lot about Kafkaesque stifling bureaucracy in Greece and other struggling European nations, but America’s Status Quo is tr…
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"We Own Wall Street"
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As the year ends, American politics remains mired in the agenda of the right. The House is, at least momentarily, refusing to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits—two policies genuinely beneficial to the middle class. And the presi…
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The Truth about Corporate America’s Vaunted "Efficiency"
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Scrape away the Human Resource Department rah-rah about “our mission” and how much your loyalty is “valued,” and what’s left? A paycheck and a sucking sound.
Let’s state the heretical obvious: Corporate America, you suck. We could count the ways–s…
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The Bankruptcy of Corporate America
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Corporate America is profoundly bankrupt. Not in a financial sense, of course; the Federal Reserve’s slow destruction of the U.S. dollar has boosted corporate profits most handsomely as the majority of their earnings and profits are obtained overse…
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Easy Way Out
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Easy Way Out
Amid rising costs, increasing competition, and Wall Street’s myopic focus on short-term profitability, many firms are fine-tuning business models. But instead of figuring out ways of giving more for less, a growing …