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Fischer: Exports stable despite strong shekel

Fischer: Exports stable despite strong shekel
“To the complainers, I say that it is not possible to maintain a strong economy with a weak shekel.”
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Ackman Ups Selected Stakes Amid Challenges
William Ackman is well-known as the man behind hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, which often makes headlines for its big stakes in and activist stances towards well-known brands.
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Filings Reveal Holdings of Quant Fund Black Box
Notable quant fund Renaissance Technologies is reportedly seeing better results of late.
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Logan city to transfer money despite raising fees of residents

Logan city to transfer money despite raising fees of residents
Logan city residents will see an 8 percent hike in their electricity bill this year.
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Can KKR Make Like Berkshire Hathaway?
By CanadianValue. An older article, but one that I hadn’t seen before. Read more » »
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Ex-Berkshire executive leaves Bruning campaign
A former Berkshire Hathaway executive who resigned following a questionable investment is no longer working on GOP U.S. Senate candidate Jon Bruning’s campaign, the candidate said Wednesday.
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Wall St. titan convicted with help from wiretaps, which may get more use in white-collar cases
NEW YORK — Former hedge fund titan Raj Rajaratnam was convicted in an insider-trading case Wednesday thanks largely to weapons prosecutors have using against mobsters and drug lords for years: wiretaps. What that means for his former peers depends on whether it’s true, as his lead attorney asserts, that what he did “happens every day on Wall Street.” Federal prosecutors used nearly three dozen …
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RF Semiconductor Stocks Power On Despite Anadigics Plunge

RF Semiconductor Stocks Power On Despite Anadigics Plunge
The company declined to give reasons for the departures of the executives.
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SORL’s Earnings Not Enough To Lift Chinese Auto Parts Stocks
Those numbers handily beat analysts’ estimates of a profit of 23 cents on revenue of $ 48 million.
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Eavesdropper
When addressing a room full of gushing Indian industry veterans and gape jawed millionaires in Bangalore, Warren Buffett said modestly that most of his extraordinary success could be attributed to dumb luck.
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Alan Schram: Goldman Was Wrong, Despite the Excuses

Alan Schram: Goldman Was Wrong, Despite the Excuses
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett and his Vice Chairman Charlie Munger defend Goldman Sachs by saying the hapless Goldman clients have only themselves to blame….

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