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...auto firms are getting into the "green" car business at just the wrong time, which is consistent with the rest of their behavior over the last four decades. Oil prices are moving back toward $30 and many economists believe this that will be the new normal. China and India have cut imported oil as their economies slow. Americans would rather ride bikes that drive cars...
...said about the competitive, quick-fire business of "high-frequency" trading - in which traders often hold positions for just a few seconds at a time. That's not overly surprising. In a separate Cambridge study last April, traders with high morning testosterone levels recorded higher profits for the rest of that day than they did on days when their circulating testosterone level was low. Building on those findings, the newer study suggests that the lower those traders' 2D:4D ratios, the bigger their swing in profits between the high- and low-testosterone days...
...Bernie Madoff come to have two classes of investors - the first-class crowd enjoying SIPC support, and the rest of us in coach? The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) encouraged the growth of unlicensed, unregistered feeder funds when it liberalized investing rules in the 1996 National Securities Markets Improvement Act, now part of the Investment Company Act of 1940. As a result, anyone managing pooled investments held by fewer than 100 people, or managing monies for an unlimited number of "qualified purchasers" (investors with more than $5 million or institutions with more than $25 million), need not worry about...
...decisions he now qualifies as disappointments, as did Donald Rumsfeld's bullying leadership at the Pentagon. Bush's own ideological inclinations against regulation certainly contributed to the financial crisis. And his inexperience in foreign affairs made him unrealistic about what freedom and democracy actually mean in much of the rest of the world...
Berry went into halftime with 10 points on 4-for-7 shooting. The rest of the team combined for 10 points on 4-for-17 shooting...