Is Dish getting a Blockbuster deal?
Last Blockbuster in Park City, UT... Activist investor Carl Icahn may have shown up in person at Blockbuster’s bankruptcy auction to place his bid, but it was U.S. satellite TV provider Dish…
11,500 tons of radioactive water dumped into the Pacific...
If you think that dumping 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific is nothing to be concerned about, look at the facial expression of the Tecpo official announcing the procedure:…
Peter Lynch talks about bottom-fishing on Wall Street
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MCHI: There Are Now 23 China ETFs
by Ron Rowland BlackRock, Inc. (BLK) yesterday (3/31/11) announced the listing of the iShares MSCI China Index Fund (MCHI). The press release claims it is the first ETF to be benchmarked to…
Game Changer?...Better Place Opens FIRST Battery Swap Station in Israel
This week, Better Place, the innovative electric car company, opened up their very first commercial battery swap station. The concept of swapping out depleted batteries for fresh charged ones is…
Currencies: Global Tactical Asset Allocation
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Chart of the day: Why $4-Per-Gallon Gas Is Damn Cheap
All of the European data comes from the E.U.'s European Energy Portal website. U.S. and Canadian data come from the respective Automobile Associations. From this recent chart in the Economist,…
HSBC Bombshell: Oil Will Run Out in 50 Years
The senior global economist at the world's second largest bank warned that the global oil supply might run out in under 50 years. "Energy resources are scarce," wrote Karen Ward, HSBC's senior…