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News Source: Washington Post
| 1 day ago
The oil pools are 200 miles out in the Atlantic and more than four miles down, under freezing seas, rock and a heavy cap of salt. Petrobras, which until recently was little known outside oil circles, has launched a five-year, $174 billion project to
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News Source: The New York Times
| 2 days ago
Wall Street leaders who made billions of dollars disappear in the financial crisis . But as the Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman writes in “The Greatest Trade Ever,” (Broadway Books, 295 pages) the financial crisis was a goldmine
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News Source: The Motley Fool
| 3 days ago
The rapid influx of capital into emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil will push up their currencies as asset prices tend to increase over time...Nobel Laureate and author Paul Krugman has said, "Although there has been a lot of
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News Source: The Motley Fool
| 3 days ago
In a bit of comedy that could only exist in the tax code, the estate tax was supposed to expire at the end of 2009, be nonexistent for 2010, and then reset to pre-Bush-era rates of 55% of your assets, exempting the first $1 million. But the House
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News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| 6 days ago
Bahamas-based billionaire currency trader and global investor Joe Lewis has his roots in the pub trade — he was born above the Roman Arms in Bow in London's East End. Since then, however, the 72-year-old's investment career has catapulted him
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News Source: Venture Beat
| 7 days ago
Boone Pickens and master currency speculator George Soros have both gone green in the last several years. Now it could be Warren Buffett’s turn to crank up his participation in the cleantech sector. Already with four related investments in the
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News Source: Independent
| 9 days ago
George Soros (above), whose $10bn currency bet famously broke the Bank of England in 1992, has invested $5m in Manocap, an African private equity firm co-founded by Kerryman Niall O'Cathasaigh, a former Goal executive. The Manocap Soros Fund will
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News Source: The Motley Fool
| 9 days ago
is over and done, it's time for two things: leftovers and shopping. Let's hope those leftovers are tasty, because the holiday shopping season isn't shaping up to be much of a culinary delight. Industry watchers aren't overjoyed at the prospects of