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SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Hao Jin submits: Index investing becomes more and more popular these days. However, concentrated portfolios have been shown to outperform diversified or index portfolios for both professional and individual investors, according to a study published in the most recent issue of CFA Institute Magazine . As few as 8 stocks can diversify most unsystematic risk. Warren Buffett also advocated the same “less...
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StreetInsider.com News Articles (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
UPGRADES: Goldman Sachs upgrades CTC Media, Inc (Nasdaq: CTCM) from Neutral to Buy. Deutsche Bank upgrades Bradesco (NYSE: BBD) Buy, making it 'Top Pick' in the sector. Click here to see more color on the upgrade. Morgan Stanley upgrades Gafisa S.A. (NYSE: GFA) to Overweight. Morgan Joseph upgrades Movado (NYSE: MOV) to Buy. Price target $16. Here is the full report. For daily real-time Upgrades go...
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NigerianMuse Articles (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/11/power-women-09_The-100-Most-Powerful-Women_Rank.html Special Report The 100 Most Powerful Women Name Occupation Country 1 Angela Merkel Chancellor Germany 2 Sheila Bair Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. U.S. 3 Indra Nooyi Chief executive, PepsiCo U.S. 4 Cynthia Carroll Chief executive, Anglo American U.K. 5 Ho Ching Chief executive, Temasek Singapore 6 Irene...
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Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
Jeffrey Trachtenberg of The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the books about disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff coming out in the next year. Trachtenberg writes, “Portfolio, an imprint of Pearson PLC’s Penguin Group (USA), said Monday it has pushed up the publication of Erin Arvedlund’s ‘Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall [...]
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Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
Pearson PLC, the parent of the Financial Times, reported its first half financial results Monday and noted that the business newspaper saw a drop in advertising revenue and circulation. Aaron Patrick of The Wall Street Journal writes, “But the result highlighted that the FT Publishing division, which includes the Financial Times, has been unable to escape [...]
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Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
LONDON — Publishing group Pearson PLC on Monday posted first half net profit of 44 million pou...
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CEOWORLD Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
Profits at FT Publishing, the newspaper and magazine division of Pearson PLC which owns the Financial Times and has a 50% stake in the Economist, fell 40% in the first half of the year. British Education and newspaper publisher Pearson PLC is trading ahead of its expectations, allowing it to keep its full-year outlook in spite [...]
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Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
LONDON — Publishing group Pearson PLC on Monday posted first half net profit of 44 million pou...
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Daily Painters International Art Gallery (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Animal Farm Penguin Book by George Orwell 17 x 28 inches Oil Painting on Canvas Sold - Commission My Books "R" Paintings - Series I had such great fun painting this giant Penguin book . Do you remember these books ? This book was first published in 1945 up to 1961. Penguin Books still exists today in the UK and is the number one publisher there. Many schools made thes books mandatory reading...
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Global Dashboard (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
Or, more specifically, we own DC’s two Congress-obsessed all-politics papers: The Economist Group, which owns Roll Call, just bought Congressional Quarterly. CQ was formerly owned by the nonprofit Poynter Institute. The Economist Group is controlled by a trust including one Rothschild. Pearson PLC (owners of the Financial Times Group), owns a 50% non-voting stake. The majority of [...] Related...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
NORWOOD, MA (MARKET WIRE) Infinata, Inc., a division of Pearson PLC (NYSE: PSO), has announced being named to CIO Magazine's 'Vendors Most Important to Winners' Success List 2009' for its development of a custom private labeling information portal for one of the world's largest investment management firms.
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Filed under: Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Dell (DELL) , International Business Machines (IBM) , Analyst initiations Analyst upgrades: Citigroup upgraded MEMC Electronic (NYSE: WFR ) to Buy from Hold after channel checks indicated solar poly price pressures are easing. The firm added MEMC to its Top Picks Live list and raised its price target on shares to $24 from $15. FBR Capital...
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GregLSBlog (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
Keeping track of which imprint belongs to which publisher makes one feel a little like Danny Kaye in THE COURT JESTER trying to keep track of whether the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the flagon with the dragon, or the chalice from the palace. But here's my best effort: Note 1: Corporate parent is in bold, US publishing subsidiary or affiliate in parentheses, imprints below....
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zacks Equity Research picks Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOR) as Bull of the Day and The Corporate Executive Board (Nasdaq: EXBD) as Bear of the Day. In addition, the analysts at Zacks
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Pearson PLC, publisher of Penguin books, the Financial Times newspaper and educational materials, warned Friday the U.S. market for school publishing, financial advertising and books will be "tough" for the remainder of the year.
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