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Aug 25, 2011

STOCK, Shares, NYSE News, Aug 25, 2011


Wall Street gains as gold rush ends; Apple's CEO quits
Reuters
About 8.21 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, slightly lower than last year's daily average of about 8.47 billion. On the NYSE, advancers beat decliners by a ratio of more than 2 to 1. ...
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So You Want to Invest in Stocks
Motley Fool
Moving from the tangible to the somewhat less tangible, Annaly Capital (NYSE: NLY ) is a real estate investment trust that invests in mortgage bonds. Unlike Ford or many of Berkshire's businesses, it's highly unlikely that you'll run into Annaly ...
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Stock Market News for August 24, 2011
Zacks.com
However, two Virginia based nuclear reactors at operated by North Anna Power Station Dominion Resources, Inc. (NYSE:D - Snapshot Report) were taken off-line automatically by safety systems.Shares of the company dropped by a percentage point moments ...
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6 Long-Term Dividend Stocks for Retirees
Investorplace.com
Also, investments such as treasury bonds generate yields which are very low. Chances are these fixed-income instruments would lose purchasing power if inflation accelerates. Other “growth” investments such as Linkedin (NYSE:LNKD), Pandora (NYSE:P), ...
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Investorplace.com
The Better Way to Get Your Retirement on Target
Motley Fool
You'll want at least a broad-index US stock fund like Vanguard Total Stock (NYSE: VTI ) , an international stock fund, and a bond fund such as iShares Barclays Aggregate Bond (NYSE: AGG ) . Add further ETFs if you want more diversification. ...
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Hot Option Plays: Moody's Remix
Daily Markets
Yet, despite a 1.1 percent loss in Japan's Nikkei, stock index futures pared their losses on the data and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was able to build gains through morning trading. Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) shares rallied 8 percent and are the ...
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The Corner
Coon Rapids Herald
The fishing district was larger than the financial district, and stocks were second to bonds. In the 1880s, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listed just a few dozen companies (today it lists some 3100 issues), and a 300000-share day was big volume ...
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Ester Levanon, the woman at the wheel of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
Washington Times
Approximately 60 of those companies are also listed on stock exchanges in different countries. In addition to corporate stocks, the exchange trades 180 exchange-traded funds (ETFs), 60 government bonds, 500 corporate bonds and more than 1000 mutual...
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Washington Times
Buying Brocade Will Pay Off for Patient Investors
Motley Fool
But even though the final $503 million in revenue and $0.09 of non-GAAP earnings per share were above the midpoint of the new guidance, the canary died again. To be fair, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) chose the same day to start taking steps out of the ...
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Afternoon Roundup: Today's Top Stories
Motley Fool
McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP ) , which is involved in such varied activities like publishing books and rating bonds, is said to be worth 40% more if it is divided up and sold in pieces. The company has seen its valuation drop by a third since 2006. ...
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The Evolution Of Ticker Symbols
San Francisco Chronicle
MUNI is the ticker for one ETF that invests in municipal bonds, while KORN is the name of another that invests in grain. Some ETF tickers even suggest positive aspects of a fund's risk or return, such as the Power Shares High Equity Dividend Achievers, ...
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NBR Transcripts-August 24, 2011-Full Episode
PBS Nightly Business Report
MILLER: It was at the same Jackson Hole conference a year ago that Bernanke laid the groundwork for buying Treasury bonds, known as QE2. That helped ignite an eight-month stock market rally. Many investors are hoping for the same boost to confidence ...
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Bank of America corp: Low stock price could force bank to raise more capital
Director of Finance online
Bank of America corp (NYSE:BAC) has been left fighting rumours that it may have to raise about $50bn in new capital to bolster its finances amid growing concerns about global financial liquidity. Jefferies' analyst Layla Peruzzi writes: "Our traders ...
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How to Profit from the Downgrade of Japan and Its Banks
IBTimes Canada
The downgrade was expected by many, so it didn't have a great affect on the bond or currency markets and the Japanese stock market fell much less than it did in reaction to the recent downgrade of America's credit rating. Another reason why the bond ...
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Why Traders Should Play it Safe for the Rest of the Week
Investorplace.com
JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) is the stock in the financial complex we keep our focus on, and the hourly chart displays the still unfilled gap from Aug. 18 (much like the S&P 500). Also note the downtrend line originating back in late July coming into play here. ...
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Toll Brothers net income up 55% to $42M in 3Q
Bizjournals.com
Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL) reported net income of $42.1 million for the third quarter, or 25 centsshare, compared with net income of $27.3 million, or 16 cents a share, for the year-ago period. Toll Brothers, one of the largest builders of luxury ...
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Standard & Poor's Announces Change to U.S. Index
Sacramento Bee
(NYSE: SCHW) in a deal expected to be completed on or about that date pending final approvals. Standard & Poor's will monitor this transaction, and post any relevant updates on its website: www.standardandpoors.com. Oritani Financial provides retail ...
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Debt Ceiling Up, Credit Rating Down, Committee Formed; Reaction Ripples
Out Of The Storm News (blog)
18 the New York Stock Exchange opened with a plunge of more than 300 points in the first 10 minutes of trading. And that was after the NYSE invoked “Rule 48” to allow the exchange to suspend price indications that help determine the floor price at the ...
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Out Of The Storm News (blog)
How far can gold fall?
Globe and Mail (blog)
Gold stocks, which lagged the price of gold when it was charging higher, are getting beaten up worse now. The NYSE Arca Gold BUGS index was down 3.3 per cent in midday trading, following a 3.6 per cent decline on Tuesday. There aren'ta whole lot of ...
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RLI Declares Dividend
Insurance News Net (press release)
(NYSE:RLI) - The RLI Corp. board of directors has declared a third quarter regular cash dividend of $0.30 per share, the same amount as the prior quarter. The dividend is payable on September 20, 2011 to shareholders of record as of August 31, 2011 . ...
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McGraw Hill worth more in pieces, investors and analysts say
Financial Post (blog)
Shares of McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP/NYSE) surged 6% to $40.82 by Wednesday afternoon. The gain was the second-largest in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Thestock had slumped 31% in the past five years through Tuesday, ...
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SPACE, Astronomy News, Aug 25, 2011





5 years after demotion, Pluto still stirs debate
msnbc.com
"They created a problem for themselves and for astronomy. It (the definition) created an unworkable algorithm for deciding what's a planet and what's not." Stern particularly objects to the "clearing your neighborhood" criterion.
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Swift Telescope Captures Black Hole Ripping Apart Star
RedOrbit
“Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may remain bright enough for Swift to observe into next year,” David Burrows, professor of astronomy at Penn State University and lead scientist for the mission's X-Ray Telescope instrument, ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Instrument Completes Cryogenic Testing
Science Daily (press release)
Just as the Hubble Space Telescope rewrote textbooks everywhere, Webb will find new surprises and help to answer some of the most pressing questions in astronomy," said John Mather, Nobel laureate and Webb senior project scientist at NASA Goddard. ...
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`Huge black hole emits light for 5 months after eating stars`
동아일보
An international joint research team including seven Korean researchers from Seoul National University's Center for the Exploration of the Origin of the Universe and the Korea Astronomy andSpace Science Institute announced in the Aug. ...
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Harper Observatory Offers A Night With The Stars
Patch.com
For a schedule, visit the Harper Astronomy website. By Jeffrey Westhoff Harper College astronomyinstructor Kelly Page describes the specifications and capabilities of the main, 14-inch telescope underneath the dome of the Karl G. Henize Observatory. ...
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Discovery: Planet really is a diamond in the sky
Courier Mail
Dr Michael Keith of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, one of the research team members, said the Parkes radio telescope revealed a spinning star called a pulsar, which emits a beam of radio waves. But the 20km diameter pulsar's radio waves were being ...
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POSTPONED: 19 bands play the Mike Praytor Children Benefit
TheDay.com
According to the physics and astronomy departments at Princeton and MIT, there is simply no possible way to cram more excellent and diverse live music into space and time than will happen Sunday at the 5th Annual Mike Praytor Children Benefit. ...
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Black hole eats star
한겨레
... the first time in the world by an international joint research team consisting of a total of 58 researchers from six countries, including seven Korean scientists from Seoul National University and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute. ...
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ASU planetarium releases fall schedule
San Angelo Standard Times
... party and learn how the telescope has helped us understand our place in space, and how telescopes continue to expand our understanding of the universe. Their conversation with anastronomer will enlighten viewers on the history of the telescope, ...
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Lucaa dishes out robot-enhanced optics
Daily News & Analysis
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA The Pune-based Inter-university centre forastronomy and astrophysics (Iucaa) has collaborated with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), US, to manufacture the world's first robotic adaptive ...
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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
UPI.com
NASA's Swift satellite first alerted astronomers to the intense and unusual high-energy flares from a new source in the constellation Draco, a release from the space agency said Wednesday. "Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may ...
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EMCOR Group, Inc. Subsidiary Awarded Contract for Installation of All ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Encompassing 3 levels and a Penthouse, which includes 13 new leading-edge physics laboratories for the department of Physics and Astronomy, scope of work will include demolition of existing labspace, and construction and installation of a number of ...
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CERN experiment confirms cosmic ray effect on climate, another blow to climate ...
Tucson Citizen
Astronomy & Geophysics 48: 1.18-1.24. Svensmark's book, The Chilling Stars, is a popularized version of his research. The original theory rested on data showing a strong correlation between variation in the intensity of cosmic radiation penetrating the ...
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Sea the stars: science fest for Galway
Irish Times
Those aged between eight months and 80 years or more will be invited to explore marine and atmospheric science and astronomy at Leisureland and the Salthill aquarium. In the lead-up to the event, artists from eight to 18 years old have been invited to ...
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Irish Times
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Absolutearts.com
Photo: Courtesy of Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum. Hans Sebald Beham, Man's Head (detail), 1542. Engravings from two plates on single sheet. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund, G8908. More.
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Vale's role designing WWII weapons for 'Winston Churchill's Toyshop' – or how ...
Aylesbury Today
Now years' later Gordon Rogers, 79, who gives astronomy lectures to schools and societies, is planning to talk about what went on in the building which still stands today and is known as The Firs. Mr Rogers has always been interested in explosives and ...
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Aylesbury Today
Why I Chose Boston University
Huffington Post (blog)
As the college search got more serious, I also realized that I wanted a school with a goodastronomy program that wasn't too far from my home on Long Island, New York. So, even though I applied to other schools, Boston University remained on my list. ...
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Aviation High School Breaks Ground On New Building
KUOW NPR
O'Toole Kelly: "She loves science, she loves math, she loves researching, she loves to read, she loves astronomy." Deanta Kelly: "I think it's cool just because there's some pretty weird stuff up there." She'll get to study a lot of her favorite ...
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Brothers seek Eagle Scout status by renewing cemetery's flag poles
Grant Tribune Sentinel
Earning his Eagle Scout badge will be an important accomplishment to the young man who has already earned 30 merit badges, including emergency preparedness, first aid/CPR, citizenship and personal management as well as rock climbing, astronomy and ...
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Community Calendar
Community Press
A guided tour of the night sky with Canada's foremost author of astronomy books as your tour guide. In the event of inclement weather please join us upstairs at the Campbellford Legion and Terence will share with us his power point presentation. ...
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Teradata: A Step Above In Business Intelligence
Seeking Alpha
According to the most recent Teradata 10-K: "...examples include web logs, radio-frequency identification, sensor and social network data, Internet text and search indexing, call detail records, genomics, astronomy, biological research and military ...
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Aliens to come to Earth to enslave and eat humans
Pravda
Andrei Finkelstein, the director of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said at the international conference devoted to the search for extraterrestrial life at the end of June that the origin of life was just as ...
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Local briefs
San Angelo Standard Times
Angelo State University's Global Immersion Center, formerly the Planetarium, will present four full-dome public astronomy shows this fall, beginning Sept. 1 in the Vincent Nursing-Physical Science Building, 2333 Vanderventer Ave. ...
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Mount Graham International Observatory Telescope tours resume
Eastern Arizona Courier
... researchers to see further and clearer into the depths of space than any other telescope in the world. The tour concludes with a return to the EAC Discovery Park Campus, where tour participants can enjoy the “History of Astronomy” Gallery exhibits, ...
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Space and Earth Sciences News :: Researchers detail how a distant ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two studies appearing in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Nature provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth since late March. NASA's ...
Space and Earth Sciences News
Astronomers Find Potential Super-Earth - Space News - redOrbit
A team of scientists at Germany's Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy has discovered a potentially habitable planet about 3.6 times as massive of Earth ...
www.redorbit.com/.../astronomers-find-potential-super-earth
Astronomy and Space Exploration News » BuzzTracker News Headlines
Yesterday, "amateur" astronomer César Cantú took an amazing mosaic image of the Sun, showing our star boiling and writhing under its own dynamic forces: ...
www.buzztracker.com/.../astronomy_and_space_exploration
Astronomers solve mystery of Titan's arrow
Read more: http://www.spacescientific.com/msnbc-cbsnews/506-msnbc-space-news/ 16911-astronomers-solve-mystery-of-titan-s-arrow.html ...
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Today's Astronomy News (August 2011) - Page 2 - Astronomy Forums ...
Today's Astronomy News (August 2011) - General Astronomy Forum. ... to the International SpaceStation reaches another milestone on Wednesday, Aug. 24. ...
www.astronomyforum.net/.../115901-todays-astronomy-news-...

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