Growth Investing News
- Overseas property: St Lucia Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 5:28PM St Lucia packs a lot into its 238 square miles and has big intentions too. In addition to its beautiful white beaches, banana plantations, coral reefs and tropical rainforest, it has grand plans for regeneration and redevelopment. This looks set to make it even more popular, not least with celebrity fans such as Amy Winehouse and Kelly Brook, both of whom have been spotted frolicking on the ...
- Market Winners & Losers: American Capital, Celgene Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 5:03PMIt was a choppy trading day for the markets today, but the indices weathered the storm and landed in the green with the S&P 500 closing up 7.25 points, or 0.78%, at 934.70.
- Mortgage-Bond Yields Hit Lows on Speculation of More Fed Buying Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 3:56PMJan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Yields on Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae mortgage bonds fell to record lows, dragged down by their declining spreads relative to government notes after the Federal Reserve began a $500 billion program to buy the bonds.
- DNP Select Income Fund Inc. Section 19(a) Notice Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 3:52PM Notification of Sources of Distribution
- US: Stocks finish well despite mixed data Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 3:50PMLONDON (SHARECAST) - Wall Street finished with steady gains, shrugging off mixed economic data and the Fed’s dour outlook.
- AlphaPro Management Inc. Announces Launch of Horizons AlphaPro ETFs Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 3:44PM Jovian Capital Corporation and its subsidiaries AlphaPro Management Inc. and BetaPro Management Inc. are pleased to announce the launch of its new family of Horizons AlphaPro ETFs .
- The final bolt Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 11:08AMThe “final” package of measures announced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the government on Friday highlight both the opportunities and the constraints that confront policy-makers as they deal with the economic slowdown.
- Strategists See 17% S&P 500 Rise After Saying ‘Buy’ (Update2) Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 10:31AMJan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The same Wall Street strategists who told investors to buy stocks in the worst year since 1937 are even more bullish than a year ago, predicting the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will rise 17 percent.
- Pet DRx Speculative Buy Rating Maintained in Update Coverage by Dutton Associates Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 10:29AM Dutton Associates continues its coverage of Pet DRx maintaining its Speculative Buy rating. The 13-page report by Dutton senior analyst Sally H. Wallack, CFA is available at www.jmdutton.com as well as from First Call, Bloomberg Professional, Capital IQ, Fact Set and other leading financial portals.
- Road projects move forward after public comments Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 10:06AMThe call for a public hearing and the authorization of the preparation of plans and specifications held during Monday’s city council meeting regarding street improvements to Kevin Longley Drive and Jerry Liefert Drive generated discussion from residents.
- Jim Walker Sunday, December 28, 2008 @ 6:34PM, the founder and managing director of Hong Kong-based Asianomics, believes that the worst is not yet over and there could be bad news flowing with regards to industrial and GDP numbers. The corporate earnings could equally be in bad shape and surprise the markets.
- Nomad seeks stronger foothold in Philipines Sunday, December 28, 2008 @ 4:52PMKUALA LUMPUR : The Nomad Group Bhd, the largest serviced office provider in Kuala Lumpur, plans to open its latest office in the Philippines by the first quarter of next year.
- On Ground Zero, nowhere to go for 2009 Sunday, December 28, 2008 @ 3:14PMMANILA, Philippines—In one of the longest Christmas holidays in living memory, Filipinos stepped into a vacuum of a stupor of two weeks beginning on Dec. 24, bracing themselves for the worst of the Great Recession in 2009, without any concrete plan to blunt its shocks except wishful thinking.
- LIC goes whole hog to sell new policy Saturday, December 27, 2008 @ 12:45PMThe Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), the country’s largest insurer, is pulling out all stops to mop up Rs 25,000 crore through Jeevan Aastha, a single-premium product which offers at least 9 per cent guaranteed returns, in an attempt to reverse the trend of falling sales.
- Let science decide, not politics Saturday, December 27, 2008 @ 6:43AMA: We have a world full of biodiversity studies but in 2008 we are still confronted with unprecedented loss of biodiversity across the world. We are losing ecosystems. We are facing the prospect of a collapse of fisheries in the oceans.
- Tamkeen -Shamil partnership fuels SME growth Saturday, December 27, 2008 @ 4:39AM27 December 2008 MANAMA, BAHRAIN - A landmark initiative by Tamkeen Tamkeen (Labour Fund) and Shamil Bank Shamil Bank , a leading Bahrain-based Islamic commercial and investment bank and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ithmaar Bank, has provided more than BD9.3 million in financing to 192 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Bahrain.
- Rail Takes Back Seat as States Target Obama Stimulus for Roads Wednesday, December 24, 2008 @ 6:16AMDec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Missouri’s plan to spend $750 million in federal money on highways and nothing on mass transit in St. Louis doesn’t square with President-elect Barack Obama ’s vision for a revolutionary re-engineering of the nation’s infrastructure.
- As forestry dies, a lumber town starts drilling Wednesday, December 24, 2008 @ 4:20AMFORT NELSON, B.C. -- When Canfor Corp. announced the indefinite closing of its two forestry mills in Fort Nelson, in far northeastern British Columbia, Sylvain Provost decided to shut down his logging company.
- Yet another thing to worry about: Taxes Wednesday, December 24, 2008 @ 4:02AM Can things get any worse for fund investors? Apparently so. You already know what a terrible year 2008 was for your stock funds. Through Nov. 21, domestic equity funds fell 48% on average, while their foreign counterparts did even worse - dropping 54%.
- First Banks names Blake, Cooper to board Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 4:48PMFirst Banks Inc. appointed Allen Blake and James Cooper to its board of directors.
