FOCUS: Australian Corporates Could Shift To Local Debt Market - NASDAQ
SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- Australia’s bond market, long dominated by bank debt, could be in for a change of scenery as corporate demand to diversify funding meets eager investors willing to lend further out the credit risk spectrum. The result could be
Source: www.nasdaq.com

Dow Texas not affected by Styron sale - Brazoria Facts
FREEPORT — Dow Chemical Co.’s planned $1.63 billion sale of its Styron plastics business to a private equity firm will have no affect on the petrochemical company’s Freeport site. Dow announced Tuesday it will divest the business, which has 40
Source: thefacts.com

Seth Klarman: Forgotten Lessons of 2008 - GuruFocus
In this excerpt from his annual letter, investing great Seth Klarman describes 20 lessons from the financial crisis which, he says, “were either never learned or else were immediately forgotten by most market participants.” One might have
Source: www.gurufocus.com

Builders learn green options at luncheon - Frederick News-Post
The Frederick County Builders Association went a little “green” at its monthly luncheon Thursday, with a panel of experts discussing some of Frederick County’s environmentally sustainable practices and initiatives. Hilari Varnadore, director of the
Source: www.fredericknewspost.com

JMP Securities’ Grubb & Ellis Rating Comes as No Surprise - Seekingalpha.com
JMP Securities, of course, is the wonderfully un-conflicted underwriter of that November preferred equity offering, which raised $90 million subject to a 12% cumulative preferred dividend and a conversion option struck at $1.65. That’s an annual
Source: seekingalpha.com

4. What are the different types of Mutual Funds? - MoneyControl.com
It is not an alternative investment option to stocks and bonds, rather it pools the Typically venture capital funds have a higher risk/ higher return profile as compared to normal equity funds and whether you should invest in these would depend
Source: www.moneycontrol.com

Tokyo pins IPO hopes on insurer’s bumper offer - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - IPOs don’t get much larger than the $12 billion offering from Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co, Japan’s second-biggest insurer, and optimism is running high that it will kickstart the country’s moribund IPO market. The IPO
Source: www.reuters.com

Grand investment - Batavia Sun
Many theater-goers will hunker down this weekend at the AMC Cantera 30, one of the area’s top money-making theaters, when it will host a pre-Academy Awards event featuring nominated films that will be shown around the clock. But despite the venue’s
Source: www.suburbanchicagonews.com

FOCUS: Australian Corporates Could Shift To Local Debt Market - NASDAQ
SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- Australia’s bond market, long dominated by bank debt, could be in for a change of scenery as corporate demand to diversify funding meets eager investors willing to lend further out the credit risk spectrum. The result could be
Source: www.nasdaq.com

Dow Texas not affected by Styron sale - Brazoria Facts
FREEPORT — Dow Chemical Co.’s planned $1.63 billion sale of its Styron plastics business to a private equity firm will have no affect on the petrochemical company’s Freeport site. Dow announced Tuesday it will divest the business, which has 40
Source: thefacts.com

Seth Klarman: Forgotten Lessons of 2008 - GuruFocus
In this excerpt from his annual letter, investing great Seth Klarman describes 20 lessons from the financial crisis which, he says, “were either never learned or else were immediately forgotten by most market participants.” One might have
Source: www.gurufocus.com

Builders learn green options at luncheon - Frederick News-Post
The Frederick County Builders Association went a little “green” at its monthly luncheon Thursday, with a panel of experts discussing some of Frederick County’s environmentally sustainable practices and initiatives. Hilari Varnadore, director of the
Source: www.fredericknewspost.com

JMP Securities’ Grubb & Ellis Rating Comes as No Surprise - Seekingalpha.com
JMP Securities, of course, is the wonderfully un-conflicted underwriter of that November preferred equity offering, which raised $90 million subject to a 12% cumulative preferred dividend and a conversion option struck at $1.65. That’s an annual
Source: seekingalpha.com

4. What are the different types of Mutual Funds? - MoneyControl.com
It is not an alternative investment option to stocks and bonds, rather it pools the Typically venture capital funds have a higher risk/ higher return profile as compared to normal equity funds and whether you should invest in these would depend
Source: www.moneycontrol.com

Tokyo pins IPO hopes on insurer’s bumper offer - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - IPOs don’t get much larger than the $12 billion offering from Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co, Japan’s second-biggest insurer, and optimism is running high that it will kickstart the country’s moribund IPO market. The IPO
Source: www.reuters.com

Grand investment - Batavia Sun
Many theater-goers will hunker down this weekend at the AMC Cantera 30, one of the area’s top money-making theaters, when it will host a pre-Academy Awards event featuring nominated films that will be shown around the clock. But despite the venue’s
Source: www.suburbanchicagonews.com

Is Apple launching a patent war? - CNN
( CNET ) — First, there was the Macintosh. Then it was the iPod, the iPhone, and now the iPad. Next up in Apple’s arsenal: The lawyers. No doubt, when Apple announced Tuesday that it was suing HTC for allegedly infringing on its patents, only one
Source: edition.cnn.com

Microsoft’s Ballmer says he has bet the company on the cloud - Computerworld
IDG News Service - Seventy percent of the 40,000 people who work on software at Microsoft are in some way working in the cloud, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday at the University of Washington. “A year from now, that will be 90 percent,” he said. In a
Source: www.computerworld.com

P&M Corporate Finance and Robin Young Announce 2010 Spine Technology - Forbes
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., March 4 /PRNewswire/ — P&M Corporate Finance, LLC , a middle market investment banking firm, is pleased to announce the 2010 Spine Technology Summit (STS) to be held on Monday, April 26th, 2010 at The Roosevelt Hotel in New
Source: www.forbes.com

Ballmer Says He has Bet the Company on the Cloud - CIO
While some recently introduced products like Windows 7 included a lot of work that is not cloud-based, the inspiration for the product starts with the cloud, he said. Beyond software, Ballmer also described Microsoft’s different strategies for
Source: www.cio.com

Steve Ballmer’s Memo To Microsoft Staff: “We Must Move At Cloud - TechCrunch
Earlier today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a speech at the University of Washington where he said that the company was going “all in” with its strategy to move Microsoft products to the cloud. We’ve gotten our hands on an all-staff email
Source: techcrunch.com

Federal Budget Lacks Job Plan: CUPE - Market Wire
OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - March 4, 2010) - “Despite its pledge to ‘lead the way on jobs and growth,’ today’s budget lacks a plan to put Canadians back to work,” said CUPE National President Paul Moist. “There are over 1.5 million Canadians
Source: www.marketwire.com

Hedge Funds Have Bigger Appetite For Bank Stocks - NASDAQ
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Hedge funds have taken a renewed interest in bank stocks. The funds have significantly increased their investments in banks in the last year, particularly buying more stock in the fourth quarter, regulatory filings show. Hedge
Source: www.nasdaq.com

World leaders, top academics selected for Ban’s climate change - UN News Centre
4 March 2010 – Philanthropist George Soros and prominent British academic Nicholas Stern are among the 19 members of the high-level advisory group set up by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon seeking to mobilize financing to help developing countries
Source: www.un.org

Is Apple launching a patent war? - CNN
( CNET ) — First, there was the Macintosh. Then it was the iPod, the iPhone, and now the iPad. Next up in Apple’s arsenal: The lawyers. No doubt, when Apple announced Tuesday that it was suing HTC for allegedly infringing on its patents, only one
Source: edition.cnn.com

Microsoft’s Ballmer says he has bet the company on the cloud - Computerworld
IDG News Service - Seventy percent of the 40,000 people who work on software at Microsoft are in some way working in the cloud, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday at the University of Washington. “A year from now, that will be 90 percent,” he said. In a
Source: www.computerworld.com

P&M Corporate Finance and Robin Young Announce 2010 Spine Technology - Forbes
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., March 4 /PRNewswire/ — P&M Corporate Finance, LLC , a middle market investment banking firm, is pleased to announce the 2010 Spine Technology Summit (STS) to be held on Monday, April 26th, 2010 at The Roosevelt Hotel in New
Source: www.forbes.com

Ballmer Says He has Bet the Company on the Cloud - CIO
While some recently introduced products like Windows 7 included a lot of work that is not cloud-based, the inspiration for the product starts with the cloud, he said. Beyond software, Ballmer also described Microsoft’s different strategies for
Source: www.cio.com

Steve Ballmer’s Memo To Microsoft Staff: “We Must Move At Cloud - TechCrunch
Earlier today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a speech at the University of Washington where he said that the company was going “all in” with its strategy to move Microsoft products to the cloud. We’ve gotten our hands on an all-staff email
Source: techcrunch.com

Federal Budget Lacks Job Plan: CUPE - Market Wire
OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - March 4, 2010) - “Despite its pledge to ‘lead the way on jobs and growth,’ today’s budget lacks a plan to put Canadians back to work,” said CUPE National President Paul Moist. “There are over 1.5 million Canadians
Source: www.marketwire.com

Hedge Funds Have Bigger Appetite For Bank Stocks - NASDAQ
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Hedge funds have taken a renewed interest in bank stocks. The funds have significantly increased their investments in banks in the last year, particularly buying more stock in the fourth quarter, regulatory filings show. Hedge
Source: www.nasdaq.com

World leaders, top academics selected for Ban’s climate change - UN News Centre
4 March 2010 – Philanthropist George Soros and prominent British academic Nicholas Stern are among the 19 members of the high-level advisory group set up by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon seeking to mobilize financing to help developing countries
Source: www.un.org