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SPORTS, Athletics News, Aug 11, 2011


Specialization killed the three-sport star
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
“I've always been an athletic person,” he said. “I like to be out there working hard. Especially sportslike soccer and baseball, which have a quality of teamwork in them. Track was to keep me in shape for both.” The student enrollment at Wise is ...
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Men's and Women's Soccer to be Broadcast on Penn Sports Network This Fall
Penn Athletics
Starting with the 2010-11 season, Penn Athletics has broadcast more than 60 contests online as part of the Penn Sports Network. Last year, Penn fans watched as football, sprint football and gymnastics all won league championships live on the PSN. ...
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Ottawa's top interscholastic athletes
Ottawa Citizen
She also was a steady goalkeeper on the soccer team, which reached the city tier 1 semifinals. A key contributor in all three sports, Ashe shared in the city boys' senior tier 1 A/AA rugby championship, played in the city senior tier 1 football final, ...
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MWAA has new look as fall begins
STLtoday.com
Football, in particular, was the largest draw and helped fill the athletics department's coffers. Everything else, including other boys sports, often had to take a step back for football. “In our league, we don't have to do that,” Stoecklin said. ...
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Thomas AD steps down to coach soccer team
Kennebec Journal
By Bill Stewart bstewart@centralmaine.com WATERVILLE — Thomas College athletic director Deb Biche is stepping down to coach the women's soccer team, the school announced Wednesday. Biche, who has previous soccer coaching experience, was the athletic ...
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Hammonton man inducted into athletic hall of fame
Vineland Daily Journal
However, his greatest passion was soccer, the only sport he knew while growing up in Umbria, Italy. When Fanucci was 13, his family moved to the Richland section of Buena Vista Township, where he quickly learned about sports like baseball and football. ...
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Managing asthma in high school athletics
Yahoo! Sports
Contributor Network Aug 9, 6:08 pm EDT Whether you play football, soccer or run track and field, participating in high school athletics if you have an asthma diagnosis requires special considerations. Asthma causes symptoms, such as wheezing, ...
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Hudson has new boys soccer coach
Milford Daily News
"I've played soccer all my life and I can help out in that better than in football. My background issoccer and I feel comfortable helping him out. That's my job as an athletic director, to be his mentor." (Sports correspondent Phil Ricciuti ...
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Sports briefs
Seacoastonline.com
2906 or visit www.cityofportsmouth.com and select the school department, high school and athleticslinks. KITTERY, Maine — The Traip Academy athletic department has announced the opening dates for practice for its fall sports teams. Football (at ...
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Men's soccer picked to finish sixth in preseason poll
BU Athletics
by Chris Cooper, Sports Information INDIANAPOLIS --- The Bellarmine University men's soccer team was picked to finish in sixth place in the Great Lakes Valley Conference this season according to a vote by league coaches. Bellarmine, who finished last ...
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Flag football returning to Plantation Central Park
Sun-Sentinel
"We have one of the bigger programs in the county," PAL Flag Football Commissioner Bob Horland said. "We have a program that has grown and is bigger than Cooper City and Sunrise. I have been involved coaching soccer and baseball, but this is the sport ...
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Yingli To Sponsor US National Soccer Teams, Provide Solar to Local Athletic ...
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
Not only will Yingli be sponsoring US Soccer, it will also collaborate in a philanthropic initiative that is set to provide solar for disadvantaged athletic centers across the US “Working closely with a leading renewable energy company will give us the ...
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New baseball stadium approved
Liberty News
This aerial shows the site of the new baseball stadium between Green Hall (left) and the football stadium and soccer stadium. Liberty University earlier this month continued its march toward becoming a prominent collegiate athletics program by ...
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Liberty News
Louisville's athletic revenue way up, thanks largely to upgraded facilities
Louisville Courier-Journal
“The end-zone terrace has been so popular in our football stadium that we want it in all of them,” Jurich said. “So we'll have that. In all four of those sports — men's and women's soccer, softball and baseball — we're primed for big success.”
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Beyond the stats: San Fran Preps and its crucial coverage
San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Nobody's covering San Francisco high school sports on a day-to-day basis,” he says. “That's what we do. We are a local newspaper, just online.” The site covers almost every high school athletics -- basketball, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, softball, ...
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WOU Sports Pass on sale now
WOU Athletics
For $75, the WOU Sports Pass is a general admission ticket to every Western Oregon athleticshome event, excluding home football games. The package is Western Oregon's best value, with a discount of over 80% and a great way to show support for all of ...
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Hanover women's soccer voted 2nd in HCAC preseason
Madison Courier
Hanover College's women have been voted second in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference's preseason women's soccer poll and three Panther players have been singled out as conference players to watch. Transylvania University received 98 total ...
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Volleyball Participates in Annual Media Day
LSUSports.net
by Matt Dunaway, Associate SID BATON ROUGE - The LSU volleyball team participated in its annual media day festivities Wednesday on the fifth floor of the Athletic/Administration Building. Head coach Fran Flory was joined by defensive specialist Lauren ...
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Caldwell soccer building
Marietta Times
After being a club sport for some time, the past three years have seen the Redskins compete in the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference and they're hoping to continue the growth that had them at the .500 plateau a year ago. "It's going to be a building year ...
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TRI-VALLEY YOUTH SPORTS ROUNDUP
San Jose Mercury News
The program is designed to give kids greater cultural awareness through athletic development and exchange. Dublin Chevrolet is helping fund the trip by giving people the chance to win a Chevy Equinox or a Chevy Cruze through the purchase of a ...
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Stockton Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2011:
RSCNJ Athletics
2001 Stockton Men's Soccer Team won the NCAA Division III national championship, which is the College's only team national title. The Ospreys set an NCAA record for victories, finishing with a 25-1-1 mark that included a 20-game winning streak and a ...
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Athletics Director Page Cotton to Take New Role as Senior Adviser to President ...
DePauw University
August 10, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — Page Cotton, Theodore M. Katula Director ofAthletics at DePauw University and former head soccer coach, has been appointed a senior adviser to President Brian W. Casey, where he will lead efforts to raise funds ...
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DePauw University
Touching All Bases: A roundup of local sports announcements
NJ.com
By The Jersey Journal NJCU will host its Men's Soccer Alumni Game on the game field at the Thomas M. Gerrity Athletic Complex on Aug. 27 at 2 pm All former NJCU men's soccer players are invited to come play and challenge the 2011 Gothic Knights in a ...
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Marlborough gets ball rolling on middle school athletic program
MetroWest Daily News
"With the exception of football, this is all new." The new program for this fall will allow sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to play several sports that have until now only been offered at the high school level. Boys and girls soccer, cross country, ...
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New Elderton soccer coach aims high
Leader Times
By Bill West, LEADER TIMES William West is the Leader Times sports editor and can be reached at 724-543-1303 or via e-mail. Once a member of a 1970s WPIAL football powerhouse, George Beatty now is the new coach of Elderton's struggling boys soccer team ...
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Montevallo student-athletes honored by ADA for academic achievements
Shelby County Reporter
The University of Montevallo saw 24 student-athletes honored recently by the NCAA Division IIAthletics Directors Association for their academic achievements. The student-athletes were honored with the 2010-2011 DII ADA Academic Achievement Awards. ...
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Notes On A Scorecard
TCU Official Athletic Site
With our football and soccer teams in the midst of preseason camp, we are most appreciative of the efforts of our sports medicine and strength and conditioning staffs in preparing and taking care of our student-athletes as they practice and train ...
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TCU Official Athletic Site
Cal Poly to Induct Four Athletes, One Coach into Athletics Hall of Fame
Boxscore News
Cal Poly will welcome five new members -- four athletes and a coach -- to the Cal PolyAthletics Hall of Fame this fall. The quartet of athletes -- football wide receiver Mike Amos, three-time wrestling All-American wrestler Ken Bos, men's soccer star ...
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Boxscore News
New fields will bring revenue, intramurals to EdCC
HeraldNet
By Jon Saperstein, For The Weekly Herald It's the sound of bulldozers and backhoes working diligently to prepare for the new Triton field, which will be the site for student athletic fields as well as the home for the baseball, softball and soccer ...
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Fort Kent soccer teams hope to build on titles
Bangor Daily News
“The tournament started more than 20 years ago,” said Presque Isle athletic administrator Mark White. “It started as a way for soccer officials to do some preseason training to get ready for the season, but it's really grown. “The officials love it, ...
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Area Sports Briefs
Oneonta Daily Star
For more information, call OHS athletic director Joe Hughes at 607-433-8251. The varsity boys and girls soccer teams from Gilbertsville-Mount Upton will begin practice Monday. The girls will start at 7 am and they should bring cleats and sneakers. ...
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New tool helps evaluate concussions
Superior Telegram
“Just about any sport our kids play in they have the risk of getting a concussion,” said SHS AthleticDirector Ray Kosey. Although they are more common in impact sports like football, hockey andsoccer, Superior students have received concussions ...
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On the agenda 8-10-11
Journal Times
For more information, contact new Rangers head soccer coach Jason Zitzke at zitzke@uwp.edu or at (262) 595-2257, or sports information director Brad Fischer at (262) 595-2045. Erin Hills Golf Club and Blue Mound Golf & Country Club, just outside ...
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LT earns national recognition
Riverside Brookfield Landmark
Expansive facilities are another reason LT typically flourishes in sports. Collectively, the North and South campuses provide athletic amenities like a top of the line swimming facility, two field houses,football field, baseball field, multiple gyms, ...
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Reuters sports schedule at 1400 GMT on Wednesday, Aug 10
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
JOHNS CREEK, Georgia - Four-times winner Tiger Woods and US Open champion Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland are among those scheduled to hold news conferences ahead of Thursday's opening round of the 93rd PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club. ...
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Ochocinco's Next Move
New York Times
For real fireworks, though, it is necessary to expand to international sports. Soccer, as usual, contributes its share, with the Colombian national team coach being pressured to quit after he punched a woman outside a bar after she was disparaging his ...
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Gulf Shores, Orange Beach sports generate a record $13.8 million halfway ...
The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)
Highlights from the first half of the year included the Alabama High School AthleticAssociation Class 4A-6A track and field championships, NAIA softball national championship and more than 10 summer youth softball and baseball tournaments. ...
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Riverside Junior/Senior High School receives concussion testing software
Scranton Times-Tribune
The Riverside athletic department will administer the baseline tests to all football and soccerplayers prior to their fall seasons. And though the ImPACT software is itself a $500 value through PACE, the added potential savings have no price. ...
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All in for Ultimate
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"The basics of the sport -- all of the different skills and traits and lessons it teaches -- all that stuff is very dynamic and incorporates every different kind of sport from soccer to football to basketball to cross country, you name it. ...
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Two Virginia players named to US Soccer's Under-17 Residency Program
Potomac Soccer Wire
Virginia youth standouts Herbert Mejia-Flores and Jorge Calix were both recently named to the USSoccer Under-17 Residency Program in Bradenton, Fla. Mejia-Flores is a member of Great FallsAthletic Association, a two-year Virginia ODP participant who ...
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Austin grad named to national soccer list
Your Houston News
... been named to the Christian College Sports Network's list of top 10 seniors for 2011. Brooks plays for Manhattan (Kan.) Christian College, winners of the last two National Christian CollegeAthletic Association Division II national championships. ...
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Parks and Recreation sign-ups ongoing
Laurinburg Exchange
by Matt Smith The Scotland County Parks and Recreation office is still accepting fall sportsregistrations this week. Parents can sign their children up for football, soccer and cheerleading until the end of the week with a $5 late charge. ...
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Cobbers Ranked In NSCAA Preseason Poll
Concordia College Cobber Athletics
(8/09/11)-- The Concordia women's soccer team is ranked No.25 in the NationalSoccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/Continental Tire NCAA Division III preseason women's soccer rankings it was announced on Tuesday. ...
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Kilgour takes over as Boonville girls soccer coach
Warrick Publishing
In the offseason, the Indiana High School Athletic Association split soccer into two classes rather than a no-class sport. Boonville will be 2A and will be in a different sectional. Last year, Boonville's sectional included Castle, Bosse, Day School, ...
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Illinois high schools: Football and fall in the air
Kankakee Daily Journal
Football workouts took place for all 15 teams The Daily Journal covers, and practices could also begin for volleyball, boys soccer, boys and girls cross-country, boys and girls golf and girls swimming.
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STOCK, Shares, NYSE News, Aug 11, 2011


Big Financial Stocks Yielding A Positive Return Over the Past Week
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
The stock recently traded at $105.87 and its market capitalization is $2900838000. About the company: iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund is an exchange-traded fund incorporated in the USA. The Fund seeks results that correspond to the price ...
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Sensex rises; rally may not last, warn analysts
Livemint
Indian stocks started Wednesday on a firm note with the bellwether index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Sensex, opening 386.6 points higher. It closed at 17130.51 points, up 272.60 points or 1.62%. The broad-based 50-share Nifty of the National ...
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ABC News
Trader Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeWednesday, Aug. 10, 2011. France's debt was the worry of the day, with the cost to insure French bonds surging, an indication that investors believe the country might have trouble ...
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ETF trading volumes surge in market turmoil
Financial Times
By Chris Flood Trading volumes for US listed exchange traded funds have surged dramatically in the market turmoil following the US debt downgrade by Standard and Poor's. Analysts at Credit Suisse said ETFs accounted for 40 per cent of US equity trading ...
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Japan's Bond Futures Rise After Federal Reserve Pledges to Keep Low Rates
Bloomberg
Ten-year bond futures for September delivery gained 0.06 to 142.19 at the 3 pm close of the TokyoStock Exchange. Yields on 10-year Treasuries dropped to a record 2.0346 percent in New York yesterday after the Fed pledged to keep its benchmark rate at ...
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SEC Sues Stifel Over Wisconsin School Losses Tied to $200 Million of CDOs
Bloomberg
(SF), the broker's St. Louis-based parent, fell $1.86 a share, or 6.5 percent, to $26.74 at 3:03 pm in New York Stock Exchange composite trading after dropping as much as 19 percent, the most in more than 19 years. Jeffrey Kalinowski, a Stifel lawyer, ...
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Stocks rally after Fed vows super low rates
Inquirer.net
The Philippine Stock Exchange index rose 3.2 percent, ending a three-day slump. Following a restorative rally in the Asia-Pacific region, European shares inched higher in morning trading. Britain's FTSE 100 index rose 1.3 percent, Germany's DAX climbed ...
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Interactive Brokers Group Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.10 Per Share
MarketWatch (press release)
As a market maker, we provide liquidity at these marketplaces and, as a broker, we provide professional traders and investors with electronic access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bondsand mutual funds from a single IB Universal Account(SM). ...
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European Stocks Enter Bear Market As August Losses Exceed Twenty Percent
TheStreet.com
Similarly, the French stock market index, the CAC 40, has also experienced a steep decline, closing at 3002.99 on Wednesday, making the August tally an 18.20 percent loss. For the year, the Paris-based exchange is down 21.07 percent. ...
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Market sees lull rather than return of normalcy
Korea Times
The yield on the three-year government bond shed 0.07 percent, closing at 3.5 percent. Foreigners' preference for Korean bonds also explains why the value of the won hasn't dropped as much as the stock market did. The won-dollar exchange rate rose from ...
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Korea Times
European banks suffer huge losses on new Greek fears
AFP
The Greek bond exchange is part of the overall second rescue worth about 160 billion euros. The private sector estimates that its participation will cost it 54 billion euros over the next three years and estimates the cost by 2020 at 135 billion euros. ...
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US Stocks Plummet, Nearly Erasing Tuesday's Gains
Wall Street Journal
After several days of volatility, the New York Stock Exchange put its "Rule 48" into effect for the second time this week, aiming to smooth the opening of trading on a session that is expected to get volatile. Rule 48 allows designated market makers on ...
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Creating Extra Yield
Barron's
One hedge-fund manager likens the strategy to creating synthetic bonds. Consider Philip Morris International (PM), the cigarette company that pays a $2.56 annual dividend. Goldman Sachs is telling clients Wednesday the stock has a 4% dividend yield, ...
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India Bonds Rise On Hopes Of Pause In Rate Hike Cycle; Rupee Down
Wall Street Journal
The Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensitive Index gained 1.6% to close at 17130.51. "We may see the rupee appreciating if Indian stocks benefit from foreign fund flows as there are some signs of foreign funds coming back to emerging economies," the dealer ...
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Argentine Stocks: Aluar Aluminio, Grupo Galicia Fall; YPF Rises
Bloomberg
Stock symbols are in parentheses and share prices are as of 4:02 pm New York time. The Merval Index fell 1.9 percent to 2809.75, its sixth day of losses in the past seven sessions. Aluar Aluminio Argentino SAIC (ALUA) , which produces and sells ...
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Europe's stocks tumble again: Malta Stock Exchange down 4%
Malta Independent Online
But if the current stock market sell-off continues, this may soon change. Since 22 July, the day after eurozone leaders decided to give their bailout fund new powers but refused to expand its size, Germany's main stock index, the DAX has lost more than ...
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Biggest Mutual Fund Winners and Losers During the Sell-Off
Morningstar.com
Unfortunately for investors in stock funds, pockets of true strength have been few and far between. Although bonds--even junk bonds and bank-loan offerings--have held their ground, nearly every stock fund in our database has posted a double-digit loss ...
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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ mildly weaker in less volatile start
Reuters
[ID:nL3E7JA0GZ] [MKTS/GLOB] But North American stock indexes suggested a soft open, while the price of crude soared around 4 percent. [.N] [O/R] Although weaker from the previous session, thecurrency was in a relatively mild range compared to the last ...
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Wall Street remembers a world of problems, and Dow plummets again _ now down ...
Newser
Nearly three stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Consolidated trading volume was heavier than usual, 8.3 billion shares. In July, average daily volume was less than half that. On Monday, it was 9.9 billion, ...
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SE Asia Stocks-Most bounce back, led by Indonesia, Philippines
Reuters
I think foreign investors are still keeping money here but favour bonds," said Teerada Charnyingyong, a strategist at Phillip Securities. Asian stocks in general clawed back some lost ground on Wednesday following a rebound in US shares after the ...
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Brookfield Asset Management earnings grow in second quarter
Winnipeg Free Press
... share ratio even if profits remain the same, which would help boost the value of its stock. The company is also seeking $4 billion in third party fundraising for seven funds and thinks that the current low interest rate environment on bonds will ...
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Wed: Discount Investment leads TASE slump
Globes
Bonds of real estate developer Elbit Imaging Ltd. (Nasdaq: EMITF; TASE: EMIT) fell by up 7%, andbonds of Discount Investment fell by up 11%. In the foreign currency market, the shekel-dollar representative exchange rate fell 1.04% to NIS 3.515/$, ...
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How to endure the rocky markets' horror show
Washington Post
An exchange traded fund is an investment fund that tracks an index, a basket of assets or a commodity, such as gold. It is traded on stock exchanges, much like stocks. But here's a caution about investing in gold. You are being reckless to put all your ...
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Koor forced to book NIS 1.8b loss on Credit Suisse
Ha'aretz
From the start of August, Koor shares have lost 23%. Its series B8 bonds have tumbled 11% to trade at a yield of 9.78%. Its B9 bonds have lost 7.17% to a yield of 11.67%. Yesterday, though the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange was closed because of the Tisha ...
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" US drama fuels eurozone panic"
Bend Bulletin
A Greek Stock Exchange employee passes stock charts in Athens on Friday, a day that saw the eurozone's debt crisis batter markets. Thanassis Stavrakis / The Associated Press By Steven Erlanger / New York Times News Service PARIS — European political ...
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10 Year US T Notes
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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Aug 11, 2011

In US Stress Tests, a Tool to Gauge Contagion in Europe
New York Times (blog)
According to a note from BernsteinResearch, JPMorgan had “less than $20 billion” in exposure toPortugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain combined. But that was going in the wrong direction, up from “less than $15 billion” at the end of 2010, ...
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