The News Review:
- bama Touts High Speed Rail
- Your Money: Investing in Tech Stocks
- Analyst Actions: Goldman Sachs Landstar System Steel Sector
- Pension stock loss may be lesson
- Ron Fielding Longtime Municipal Bond Manager To Retire from …
- 6 Signs an Investment’s a Scam
- A Fund Manager Wins and Moves n
bama Touts High Speed Rail
CBS News
‘s network of high speed rail lines and improve train travel. bama said that by investing $8 billion in stimulus funding to expand high speed rail lines America will create jobs and reduce pollution. bama labeled the plans a “new foundation for our lasting prosperity. Employing a common rhetorical device the president listed possible objections to his plans raised by unnamed critics. Among the charges he said people were making were that the cost was prohibitive that the current economic crisis should be his top concern and that Americans’ fondness for cars makes improving train travel something of a non-issue.
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Your Money: Investing in Tech Stocks
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Analyst Actions: Goldman Sachs Landstar System Steel Sector
BusinessWeek
The sale also helps bolster the bank’s capital ratios Bove noted. By paying back the government funds Goldman will be able to spend money on executives that will help it retain and attract top talent and it also allows Goldman to participate in purchasing distressed assets as part of the government’s public-private investment program Bove said. Goldman has a strong history of investing in distressed assets and could take advantage of the program to add to future profits he said.
Pension stock loss may be lesson
Boston Globe
After the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust initially made healthy gains by investing in the stock market it was hailed by some lawmakers as a model for how to save Social Security – either by investing part of the Social Security trust fund in stocks or by creating private accounts and giving individuals a chance to do the same. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa at that time the Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee was quoted in 2005 as saying that Congress should consider putting part of the Social Security trust fund into stocks “based upon the success of the railroad retirement fund. ” Many other members of Congress made similar comments and then-President Bush launched an un successful campaign to give people the power to invest portions of their own Social Security funds in the stock market. But since the end of 2007 the railroad fund’s returns have crashed. The fund which had previously been restricted by the government to investing in Treasury securities put its assets into everything from foreign stocks to real estate to “opportunistic” investments.
Ron Fielding Longtime Municipal Bond Manager To Retire from …
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6 Signs an Investment’s a Scam
Motley Fool
I could go on but my keyboard is out of breath. How can you tell if an investment pitch is a scam? Unfortunately there is no foolproof system. So occasionally we get a Bernie Madoff in the mix. However there are telltale signs that something’s not right. Here are the top six: 1. The promise of “low risk and high gain.
A Fund Manager Wins and Moves n
New York Times
Steinhafel attacking Mr. Ackman in a recent letter for trying to force the company to make what he characterized as short-term risky strategic changes in the midst of a recession. Pershing owns its stake in Target through several funds including one set up two years ago for the sole purpose of investing in one company. That fund which uses options to leverage its investment in Target had lost over.