Travelblog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
After a reeeeealllly sloooooow start to the morning we caught the bus down State Street the main thoroughfare we are staying at 3525 State Street and got off the bus once we arrived ldquoDowntownrdquo. From here we sauntered further down State Street looking for somewhere to have lunch we missed breakfast this morning due to oversleeping. We found a California Pasta restaurant that re
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Gary Gordon submits: At least for the past few years, many international economic segments performed far better than their domestic counterparts. For example, WisdomTree's International Communications Fund (DGG) made minced meat out of the iShares Dow Jones Telecom Fund (IYZ). And for the last 18 months or more, investors seeking targeted sector exposure that excluded US companies only had WisdomTree...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today was the annual "Running of the Brides" sale at Filene's Basement on State Street. CBS 2's Susan Carlson reports on why this year's event was bigger than ever.
ETF Trends (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The options for international sector exchange traded funds (ETFs) doubled overnight as State Street Global Advisors announced the addition of ten such funds to their SPDR lineup. This brings the Spider line to include 80 ETFs, with 31 of those focused on global access to international markets. The new offerings enter a market space that WisdomTree [...]
Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Supervisor Chris Daly wants to close Market Street to all but mass transit traffic. As I wrote in May, that idea has failed in city after city. In Chicago, State Street — “that great street” — utterly died when they tried it there. They re-opened the street to all traffic a few years ago, and [...]
Business Times Asiaone (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
(LONDON) Sovereign wealth funds, which own about US$3 trillion in assets, may almost triple their investments in the next five years as oil and gas prices surge, State Street Corp said.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
REGIONAL ROUNDUP BOSTON - State Street Corp. added nearly 400 jobs in Massachusetts in the past six months as it continued to sail forward with strong earnings and revenue growth.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), the world’s leading provider of financial services to institutional investors, today released
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
IndexUniverse submits: By Heather Bell State Street Global Advisors yesterday took sector ETFs in a new direction with the launch of 10 international sector ETFs on the American Stock Exchange. Complete Story »
Market Wire - Professional Services: Legal (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) On July 23, 1998, a landmark federal appeals court ruling upheld patents for software-implemented inventions and methods of doing business. Ten years and thousands of business-method patent applications later, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is considering whether to undo that decision in part or completely.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Sovereign wealth funds could collectively own over 5 percent of the world's major companies over time and their desire to diversify into equities would push real bond yields to rise, State Street said on Tuesday.
Xorte latest economic news (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
State Street Global Markets, the investment research and trading arm of State Street Corporation released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® for July 2008. Global Investor Confidence rose by 3.6 points to 82.6 from a revised June level of 79.0. Asian investors were the key drivers of this, as their risk appetite increased by 8.5 points from 74.4 to 82.9.
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) - Sovereign wealth funds could collectively own over 5 percent of the world's major companies over time and their desire to diversify into equities would push real bond yields to rise, State Street said Tuesday. Government-owned funds, which own almost $3 trillion in...
The Boston Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Global investor confidence, driven by an increased appetite for risk among Asian investors, rose in July while North American investor confidence dropped this month, according to the State Street Investor Confidence Index. (STT)
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced that its State Street Global Advisors unit is launching 10 new SPDR exchange-traded funds, which are supposed to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
