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Bill and Melinda Gates, as you may know, are giving away billions to find a cure for AIDs, to curb childhood malaria, and to improve computer literacy worldwide among the young. But what about sisters Helen and Swanee Hunt, daughters of Texas oil magnate...
Tags: Barron, New Orleans, Buffett, H. L. Hunt, Philanthropy, Social Issues, Pierre Omidyar, Berkshire Hathaway, Swanee Hunt, EBay
Shares in the struggling Web pioneer, which is now focused primarily on advertising-supported content, began trading on a "when-issued" basis on the New York Stock Exchange last Tuesday at $27, and fell to $23 on Friday -- a level Barron's said valued...
Tags: AOL Inc, Barron, New York, Atlanta Braves, MapQuest, Business Finance, AOL, Time Warner, Technology Internet, Online service providers
Current valuations of waste managers such as Waste Connections Inc , Waste Management Inc and Republic Services Inc give the company's shares a lot of room to rise, according to a Barron's story. In its November 23 edition, Barron's said Waste Connections...
Tags: waste managers, Republic Services NYSE, Republic Services Inc, Barron, New York, New York Stock Exchange, Waste, Corporate scandals, Waste Management Inc, Republic Services, Business Finance, Environment
Andy Barron will swap a playing shirt for a more formal piece of white clothing when the reality of life kicks in today and he goes back to his office job at Westpac. The 28-year-old Wellington midfielder is one of four amateur players in the All Whites...
Tags: Westpac Stadium, Barron, Team Wellington, amateur players, Bahrain, Manama
FedEx Corp ( FDX .N) shares, which have more than doubled since a low in March, may climb further given the delivery company's growing exposure to overseas markets such as China , Barron's reported on Sunday. FedEx shares benefited from cost cutting...
Tags: Barron, Exxon Mobil Corp, Sunnyvale, Short selling, Reuters, Short, FedEx, Express mail, Financial regulation, Business Finance
If previous recessions and Adecco's second-quarter results are a guide, the answer is yes. The world's largest staffing agency posted second-quarter results this month showing that the global staffing environment has stopped deteriorating. In the second...
In Columbia bounty hunters have shot dead a Hippo that fled from a private zoo owned by former drugs baron Pablo Escobar. The Hippo, along with two others escaped back in 2006 but has only just been located and killed. Authorities wanted the animals dead...
Tags: Hippo, drugs, barron, colombia, animals, crime, hunters
Cerner, a healthcare information technology company, trades in the mid-$50s, or about 22.8 times this year's consensus profit estimates of $2.41 a shares, Barron's said. The weekly financial newspaper, however, cited a Piper Jaffray analyst who revised...
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Last week, the San Francisco-based company said it expects to post a record first-quarter profit of $3 billion, up about 50 percent from a year earlier, citing a better-than-expected performance from Wachovia and a solid performance in mortgage lending.
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Last month, as part of a sweeping housing rescue bill, the Treasury Department gained unlimited power through 2009 to lend money to Fannie and sibling company Freddie Mac or buy stock in the mortgage finance giants if needed. The move was designed to...
Tags: Shares of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, US Treasury, finances giant, use treasury, Barron, mortgage finances, share fell, financial sector, The Treasury Department