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Swine Flu Outbreak

Posted by scienceinvestor on Saturday, April 25th 2009     

Recently a friend of mine commented that the bird flu seems to have disappeared since he hasn’t heard about it in the news lately. I tried to explain to him that it may not be as prominently covered by the media as the financial crisis, but it has definitely not disappeared. The swine flu outbreak [...]

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Categorized in Biotech/Pharma, Health Care
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Satyam Accounting Scandal

Posted by admin on Tuesday, April 21st 2009     

If you thought the days of big accounting scandals are over after Enron, WorldCom, Parmalat and Co you were wrong as the recently announced scandal of Satyam showed. Satyam is a leading software company to which many big companies outsource. For years management inflated the company’s earnings and revenues, it started small and grew bigger over the [...]

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Categorized in Tech
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Stock Market Rally to Last?

Posted by admin on Friday, April 17th 2009     

The rally continues now for like 5 weeks, question is: is this rally sustainable, or is it a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Wells Fargo and JP Morgan give us the impression the banks have the worst behind them and all the nationalization talk is over. But will stocks continue to rally? I don’t think we [...]

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Categorized in Financials
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