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The News Review:

- Ford investing $14 billion on fuel economy technologies
- Nigeria: Investing in Technical And Vocational Education
- Ben Graham Approach to Investing utperforms the Markets
- Investing Books: The Good and the Bad
- Investing In Your Future

Ford investing $14 billion on fuel economy technologies
Business Mirror Philippines 
0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10. 0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} FRD Motor Co. is investing $14 billion in technology to improve fuel economy over the next seven years said Mark Fields the company?s president for the Americas. The Dearborn Michigan-based automaker is working to improve fuel economy to 36 percent on vehicles by 2015 Fields said at an investor conference in Detroit. He also said the company is factoring in about $5 billion in funding from Department of Energy loans for speeding the development of fuel-efficient vehicles. The comments fit with chief executive officer Alan Mulally?s strategy to build smaller more fuel-efficient models to reduce Ford?s dependence on pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles. Ford said it plans to join with Canadian parts supplier Magna International Inc.
Related from Pvandv: Podcast: BlogHer Talks to Ford VP Susan Cischke

Nigeria: Investing in Technical And Vocational Education
AllAfrica.com Washington 
Any benefits that occurred to Nigerians or the Nigerian nation were mostly accidental. A case in point was the railway system that was built primarily to ship out our cash crops and minerals in the most convenient manner possible. Before 1948 there were no institutions of higher learning in Nigeria until the founding of Yaba College of Technology and University College Ibadan. Prior to that period the Fourah Bay College in Freetown Sierra Leone established in 1876 was the only institution of higher education therefore of sub-Saharan Africa.

Ben Graham Approach to Investing utperforms the Markets
Seeking Alpha NY 
By using these conservative fundamental-focused measures Graham earned himself the moniker “The Father of Value Investing”. And as the father of that school of thought he inspired a number of famous “sons” — Mario Gabelli John Neff John Templeton and most famously Buffett are all Graham disciples who went on to their own stock market greatness. Perhaps the most intriguing part of Graham’s strategy is that while it was published almost 60 years ago it still works today. Since I started tracking it more than five years ago my 10-stock Graham-based portfolio has racked up an impressive gain while the overall market is down. Here are the current holdings of the 10-stock Graham portfolio:.

Investing Books: The Good and the Bad
Learning Markets CA 
The market is always changing and the “unprecedented” is common place. That means that investors are typically actively reading the latest and greatest information on the web and in books. At Learning Markets we get questions about reading recommendations quite frequently and this article will be an attempt to answer that question.

Investing In Your Future
MSNBC 
Now is actually a good time to buy though that can be hard for most people to do. “I’m pretty much holding tight with my money” Jim Marlow said. “I’m not investing and I’m certainly not selling. “”Right now I think we’re just going to stay put until bama gets in let things settle down a bit” Barbara Holford said. “I’m not interested in making a whole bunch of money or losing a whole bunch of money. “These people are trying to stay the course. “[My husband and I] want to protect our assets make sure that we can stay in there for the long haul” Holford said.

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