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...Ameritrade is very, very strong in the active-trader space. The area we want to move into is the long-term-investor space, and TD Waterhouse is very strong in that...
...entrepreneur and her prospective investor now have to ask some new questions. Does her business model effectively induce others to violate copyright?” he asked on his website. “What kinds of advertisements would get her in trouble? What are the ‘reasonable’ steps that she needs to take to stop people from using her technology for infringing uses...
Warren Buffett may be the greatest investor ever. But his long-term philosophy, which was ridiculed as he avoided the dotcom boom--and vindicated as he avoided the bust--is being scrutinized once more. The buy-and-hold billionaire is up to his ears in exotic investments known as derivatives, which are used to bet on things like the weather and the direction of interest rates. Derivatives were at the core of the 1994 bankruptcy of California's Orange County and the 1998 demise of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. Buffett once called derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction...
...seams are allegations that Arroyo rigged last year's presidential election and persistent rumors of coup plots. The President, who has a Ph.D. in economics, knows she needs faster economic growth and more foreign investment to help dig the country out of its fiscal hole, but what sane foreign investor would risk money in a country that seems perennially on the verge of political and financial chaos...
...eventual increase in corporate earnings, soon began to sniff around. Another attraction for raiders is a USX pension fund with an estimated $2.5 billion in excess assets. Last month the company's stock began moving into some well-known hands. Among the buyers: Robert Holmes Court, an Australian investor; T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman-raider; Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis entrepreneur and speculator. Pickens reportedly cashed in his chips two weeks ago for a big profit. Icahn, on the other hand, continued to buy. Last week he announced that his holdings had reached 11.4% of USX and were still...