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[?]Submitted by SmallCapVoice.com
BORDENTOWN, NJ–(Marketwire – 02/09/10) – WORLDWIDE FOOD SERVICES, INC. (Worldwide Food Services) (Pinksheets:WFSV) announced today a formal Corporate strategy meeting to be held in Myrtle Beach, SC in late February. The Company’s “Stage One” plans have been implemented and well received. Worldwide Food Services will bring their marketing, sales, […]
Productivity growth over the business cycle: preview
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I haven’t hammered out a story yet, but here’s some food for thought:
Lately productivity growth has accelerated, while the unemployment rate has skyrocketed. Some commentators (e.g.) have noted that businesses squeeze more output out of every hour of work, presumably by cutting down on the least productive tasks, jobs, […]
BERNANKE SPEAKS OF EXITS & THINGS…
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
The snow didn’t stop Ben. Blizzard or not, there were no stormy surprses in Fed Chairman Bernanke’s testimony today in Congress. Yes, the central bank was contemplating an exit strategy, but nothing was imminent.
“We have been working to ensure that we have the tools to reverse, at […]
REGULATION VS. REGULATION
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Is the goal of avoiding the risk of “too big to fail” in regulating banks by keeping them smaller too improbable to work? Yes, according to Avinash Persaud of Intelligence Capital, a financial advisory firm. In a new essay posted today on Vox, he argues that policymakers […]
STAG + INFLATION?
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
No one’s talking about stagflation these days, and for good reason. Inflation expectations remain quite low in the U.S., although the outlook for prices has been rising over the past year, albeit from a depressed state. As such, the stag part of the equation–a stagnant economy–seems more […]
U.S. Exports Would Rank #8 for Largest Economy
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In 2008, the U.S. exported $1.276 trillion (or $1,276 billion, BEA data here) of manufactured goods to the rest of the world including food products ($89 billion), industrial supplies and materials ($780 billion), capital goods ($454 billion), automotive vehicles and parts ($234 billion), and consumer goods ($482 […]
Newspaper Articles Are Too Long
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
“One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions that don’t add to your […]
One of the Most Dangerous Words Ever: Fairness
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
1. “In recent times, virtually any disparity in outcomes is almost automatically blamed on discrimination, despite the incredible range of other reasons for disparities between individuals and groups.
Nature’s discrimination completely dwarfs man’s discrimination. Geography alone makes equal chances virtually impossible. The geographic advantages of Western Europe over […]
Follow Through?
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[?]Submitted by The Ambitious Trader: Stocks, Trading, Investing..My Ambitions as a Trader and Investor
Follow Through?
It looks like it on paper, but I don’t see any high quality setups…best to wait for more of a confirmation before becoming super-bullish….
The Ambitious Trader: Stocks, Trading, Investing..My Ambitions as a Trader and […]
Market Scan for Small Cap Stocks on February 9, 2009
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Market Scan for small cap stocks
at the close of the markets on February 9, 2009
The table below identifies the stocks returned on my scan of the US markets for small capitalizations stocks likely to display the characteristics of stocks entering Phase II, as described by Stan Weinstein.
Under $5.00
Over […]
Worldwide Food Services (WFSV) Selects New Office Site
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BORDENTOWN, NJ — (Marketwire) — 02/01/10 — WORLDWIDE FOOD SERVICES, INC. (Worldwide Food Services) (PINKSHEETS: WFSV) has selected Little Falls, New Jersey as its new office site. The 3 South Grey Rock Avenue, Little Falls, NJ, office is also the location of Rainbow Foods LLC, the Company’s Joint Venture […]
2-9-10 Daily Small Cap Market News and Stock Highlights from SmallCapVoice.com
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Stocks rally behind Caterpillar earnings and Greece debt help
Stocks rose broadly on Tuesday with Caterpillar Inc and other industrial shares benefiting from a broker upgrade and talk of help for debt-burdened Greece reviving investor sentiment.
Speculation Greece could get help from the European Union underpinned the rise in stocks, boosting […]
China Jo-Jo Drugstores Announces Fiscal Third Quarter 2009 Results
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HANGZHOU, China–(BUSINESS WIRE)–China Jo-Jo Drugstores, Inc. (OTCBB:CJJD) (“Jo-Jo Drugstores” or the “Company”), which operates a retail pharmacy chain in the People’s Republic of China, today announced its financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31, 2009.
Fiscal Third Quarter 2009 Highlights
Revenues increased 29.1% period-over-period to $14.9 million
Gross profit […]
DOES INDEXING MAKE SENSE IN “INEFFICIENT” MARKETS?
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Since the first index fund was launched in the early 1970s, the concept of passive investing has come a long way in terms of earning respect. For broad U.S. equity mandates in particular, finding supporters of active management is getting tougher in the 21st century. And among […]
REBALANCING & THE GLOBAL MARKET INDEX
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There are countless investment strategies, but arguably there’s only one true benchmark: the market portfolio, defined as a passive allocation to all the major asset classes, initially weighted by the relative dollar values and thereafter left to the whim of market fluctuation.
This benchmark isn’t necessarily appropriate for […]
The Heritage Foundation Confuses Me
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The Heritage Foundation critiques the CEA assessment of the stimulus. In WebMemo #2799, Dr. Campbell writes:
The CEA’s method, in brief, compared a statistical forecast of the economy based on historical patterns (no stimulus) with the actual economic results in 2009. On this basis, it claims that there are 2 […]
Letting the EGTRRA and JGTRRA Provisions Expire
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Or, what would happen if we “Let Bush Be Bush”. Recall the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts were written to expire, for the most part, in FY2011. The impact of extending those cuts (along with some others) is strikingly depicted in this Figure from the Center for Budget and […]
Markets in Everything: Screw-in-the-Ground Casket
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Link.
The Two Americas: Public Sector vs. Private Sector
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Note: This post was inspired by Michael Jahr’s post on the Mackinac Center’s website, “Economy Contracts, Government Expands.”
According to a December report from the BLS, state and local government employers spent an average of $39.83 per hour worked ($26.24 for wages and $13.60 for benefits) for total employee […]
There’s more to the cure than …
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There’s more to the cure than research #spiritjump ~ Come watch and chat with me! http://justin.tv/s/04/Zd0B2zQ/spiritjump
Market Scan for Small Cap Stocks on February 9, 2010
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[?]Submitted by Ducimus Plinius
Market Scan for small cap stocks
at the close of the markets on February 9, 2010
The table below identifies the stocks returned on my scan of the US markets for small capitalizations stocks likely to display the characteristics of stocks entering Phase II, as described by Stan Weinstein.
Under […]
Market Scan for Small Cap Stocks on February 5,
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[?]Submitted by Ducimus Plinius
Market Scan for small cap stocks
at the close of the markets on February 5, 2010
The table below identifies the stocks returned on my scan of the US markets for small capitalizations stocks likely to display the characteristics of stocks entering Phase II, as described by Stan Weinstein.
Under […]
2-8-10 Daily Small Cap Market News and Stock Highlights from SmallCapVoice.com
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Stocks are lower on continued worries about the economy and concerns about European debt issues
The market’s major indexes have traded erratically lately as investors try to determine whether a global economic recovery is sustainable. Traders are still grappling with concerns that some European countries, such as Greece, Portugal and […]
General Automotive Company Announces the Opening of OE Source Los Angeles Office
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ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — General Automotive Company (OTCBB:GNAU), a North American provider of aftermarket parts and advanced technology for the automotive industry, today announces the opening of a Los Angeles office of OE Source. OE Source, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Automotive, opened the […]
ENTER THE EXIT STRATEGY
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will be chatting up the central bank’s exit strategy later this week when he testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on February 10. To say that there are political and economic risks hovering over the subject is to understate the potential hazards.
There […]
