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• Canadian Personal Finance & Investing Carnival
• Forget A Double Dip. We’re Still In One Long Big Dipper.
• HP’s Hurd Crisis Creates A Value Play
• 3 Reasons Australian ETFs Could Shine
• Global Economic Recovery? Mercedes Sales Surge

Canadian Personal Finance & Investing Carnival Posted: 14 Aug 2010 02:36 PM PDT Canadian Personal Finance & Investing Carnival Ladies and Gentlemen. Its time for the third edition of the Canadian Personal Finance & Investing Carnival. This week, we received 4 submissions that complied with our stipulations. Since 4 articles do not comprise a carnival, given our role as the host of the carnival, we've decided to go ahead and roundup the best of the best in the realm of Canadian personal finance and investing and present it to you in one neatly packed post. We … [visit site to read more]

Forget A Double Dip. We’re Still In One Long Big Dipper. Posted: 14 Aug 2010 02:17 PM PDT It's nonsense to think of the economy heading downward again into a double dip when most Americans never emerged from the first dip. We're still in one long Big Dipper. More people are out of work today than they were last year, counting everyone too discouraged even to look for work. The number of workers filing new claims for jobless benefits rose last week to highest level since February. Not counting temporary census workers, a total of only 12,000 net new … [visit site to read more]

HP’s Hurd Crisis Creates A Value Play Posted: 14 Aug 2010 01:36 PM PDT Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) has had a bad week since the announcement that Mark Hurd was resigning. HPQ stock is currently sitting at $40.40, just off the 52 week low of $39.95 established on Thursday after Cisco`s CEO John Chambers gave tempered guidance for the tech bellwether. (See chart) The question that arises is whether HP is oversold in the short-term, and due for a bounce in line with the fundamentals of being one of the largest technology companies in the world in terms of … [visit site to read more]

3 Reasons Australian ETFs Could Shine Posted: 14 Aug 2010 01:17 PM PDT Historically speaking, over the last century, Australia's stock market has outperformed all others and has offered the one of the lowest volatilities amongst all of its peers.  As for the future, there are three forces that could enable the nation down under to continue to shine.  According to a study conducted by Credit Suisse, during the period of 1900 to 2009, Australia's markets posted 7.5% after inflation returns per year while witnessing a standard deviation of 18.2%, the … [visit site to read more]

Global Economic Recovery? Mercedes Sales Surge Posted: 14 Aug 2010 11:50 AM PDT Stuttgart, Germany — “Sales at Mercedes-Benz continue to improve, rising by 17 percent in July. This marked the ninth month in a row that sales have increased at a double-digit rate. Global deliveries to customers amounted to 97,700 units last month (July 2009: 83,500). As a result, sales now total 654,400 units since the beginning of the year (January-July 2009: 566,600), representing an increase of 16 percent. Mercedes-Benz made great gains in many automotive markets in July. The brand had … [visit site to read more]

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