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POPSGreen Power Using green energy to power your home may not be as hard as you think. Ask your electric utility to switch you to an alternative source.
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POPSThe Wal-Marts Are Coming! With 10 years of consecutive growth, Russia provides an opportunity too tempting to pass up. It's not surprising that Wal-Mart wants to open its doors here. The author is long on Wal-Mart.
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POPSGo To Africa, Young Investor Should your portfolio dollars be earmarked for Africa? Paul Kedrosky provides five reasons why you should consider investing there.
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POPS401(k) Debit Danger The creation of the 401(k) debit card makes it even easier for you to tap into your retirement savings. That's not a good thing.
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POPSeBay: Do I Hear $10? So what next? Andrew Horowitz says buying seems to be a mistake unless management can show some plan of turnaround. Investors could consider a short position or purchasing a put contract close to the money. If you are long, consider hedging with either covered-calls or puts.
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POPSGold: A Safe Haven It's not a new concept but it's a good one. Portfolio manager Jean-Maire Eveillard explains why you should be in gold.
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POPSH-P Challenges IBM Get details of H-P's proposed acquisition of Electronic Data Systems. The move would make Hewlett-Packard the world's second-largest provider of technology services.
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POPSCitigroup's Expensive Buyback At the time, a buyback of shares seemed like a good idea. But in restrospect, Citigroup paid too much. With its stock hovering around $32, Citigroup is hoping new management can turn things around.
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POPSSamsung's Fit Phone Samsung and Adidas are teaming up to create a "fitness phone" that will rival the iPod/Nike offering. A shoelace mounted sensor means you don't have to buy special shoes, unlike the Nike/Nano version. The new phones may help Samsung improve on its 161 million mobile units sold last year.
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POPSDow 15,000 Stay away from housing and commodities in 2008 but go for banks and brokerages says H.J. Mann.
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POPSNew Fidelity Retirement Fund Fidelity is adding to its stable of target date or lifecycle funds, which basically are fund-of-funds where prospective retirees let money mangers change the asset mix as you age.
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POPSPalm Still Struggling Palm better rebuild quickly or they are going to find themselves out of the game. Since October, its stock price has fallen more than 60%. A new TREO line is due out later this year; maybe that will help turn things around. Investors certainly hope so.
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POPSNetflix Exceeds Expectations A good report for Netflix investors. Plus this news may help to quell the notion that online video will cause the downfall of television and video rentals. That's not going to happen.
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POPSSubprime Crackdown by the FBI According to an FBI report out last year, the FBI is most concerned with "fraud for profit." This often involves multiple loans and elaborate schemes perpetrated to gain illicit proceeds from property sales. The report said such schemes usually involved "gross misrepresentions concerning appraisals and loan documents."
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POPSCalculating Country Risk Interesting piece by Suna Reyent who compares the daily moves of all markets and calculates the observed country risks in terms of betas to see how risky one country is with respect to another.
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