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Better Best Western. If your company is cutting back on premium hotel stays for business travel, keep in mind that you can stay at any Best Western hotel from now through Feb. 14 and earn up to quadruple points when you pay with a MasterCard. That means, if you join Best Western Rewards, you may be able to earn a free stay after just four nights. Plus, this isn't your father's Best Western: Many hotels now have 42-inch flat-screen TVs in the rooms, with nary a polyester quilted bedspread in sight. Pretty luxe for the price...
...images of bloodshed and destruction in Gaza will be their most effective weapon against the Israeli invasion. Israel destroyed Hamas' TV station early in the bombing campaign, but the fact that it is still broadcasting by means unknown suggests that the organization, just like Israel, has placed a premium on shaping the perception of the conflict. Its focus is on maintaining and expanding its political power after the Israelis retreat...
...November compared with a year ago, even at a time when PC sales increased 2%. Analysts, extrapolating to the pending post-holiday doldrums, when No One Will Buy Anything Ever Again, deemed this significant. If people stop buying stuff, that goes double for expensive stuff. And Apple occupies the premium space in the computing world. Jobs has famously and consistently refused to dance the price-cutting limbo with PC makers. As recently as October, he told analysts he wasn't "tremendously worried" that recession-wary customers would flock to $300 PCs. (See the top 10 iPhone applications...
...million members. A new member signs up every second; a million join every two weeks. The site, which has new job-search functions in the works, already lets employment seekers figure out what connections they have to people who work at companies that are hiring. Premium, paid features boost the number of listings that searches yield and enable users to contact those outside their social network. At least one executive from every FORTUNE 500 company is now on the site--and Oracle's new CFO landed his post through his LinkedIn profile...
...sovereign debt “investment grade” status. But this was a small reward given the shift the country has experienced since 1994. Brazilian government bonds remain too cheap (currently paying over 500 basis points above the 10-Year Treasury). Charging a sky-high political premium to a country that has had a fiscal revolution, and where Daniel Dantas can be arrested through due process of law, seems to be rather exaggerated. The bonds’ inadequate BBB-rating—barely above speculative status — contributes to this mispricing. But, of course, this grade...