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Media Digest 7/18/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters: Moody’s downgraded Ireland’s debt. Reuters:   Engineers detected seepage from areas around the capped BP well.

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (7/13/2010)

Updated throughout the day. American International Group (NYSE: AIG) may begin the process for an AIA IPO (Reuters) Avis (NYSE: CAR) will top the Hertz (NYSE: HTZ) bid for Dollar-Thrifty (NYSE: DTG) (WSJ) Nelson Peltz is seeking to raise a new buyout fund of $1.5 billion. The money would be used to invest in private [[ This is a content summary only

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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 7.13.2010 The Wisdom Of Crowds

Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million Twitter users. It raises the question of whether there is wisdom in crowds.

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Media Digest 7/13/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

MarketWatch:   Moody’s downgraded Portugal two notches to A1 Reuters:   BP plc (NYSE: BP) will test a new oil cap in place. Reuters:   The Wall St

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How Bruce Berkowitz Accidentally Helped Ambac (MBI, AIG, ABK)

If you look through activist investor hedge fund filings, one of the top fund managers and funds to watch is Bruce Berkowitz of Fairholme Capital Management, L.L.C.  It is of little surprise that his new financial guaranty holding via MBIA Inc. (NYSE: MBI) and an increased AIG holding in American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) [[ This is a content summary only.

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (7/1/2010)

Updated throughout the day. Robert Benmosche, CEO of American International Group (NYSE: AIG) threatened to resign, again.

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TARP: A Profit For Taxpayers?

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made a number of important observations during his testimony before the Congressional Oversight Committee. The most outstanding of these is how much money from the TARP investment has been returned to taxpayers. The Treasury Secretary said that more than half of the funds lent through the program have been paid back [[ This is a content summary only.

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The Fifteen Nations With The Highest Unemployment In The World

The global unemployment problem is so huge that the total number of jobless in the ten most populous nations in the world totals 1.1 billion.

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/17/2010)

Updated throughout the day. The government has ended its investigation into American International Group, Inc (NYSE: AIG) and its management.

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Beware Blowback From Obama’s BP Boot

By John Tamny of Forbes Multi-national U.S. firms will pay dearly for Obama’s shabby treatment of BP next time they err overseas. Read more…

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