Champagne wishes and caviar dreams are now but a memory for billionaire shareholder activist Carl Icahn, who lost about $125 million today by selling off 16 percent of his ever-losing stake in Yahoo. The sale of 12.7 million shares at just under $15 a piece is a far cry from the hopes that the famously prickly Icahn had when he started his quest to bring about change and riches for himself by investing in the stock of the turmoil-plagued Internet giant in 2008. Icahn went far in waging a pro
Note that while this Bloomberg story discusses that some major hedge funds are skeptical of the theory that the recovery is on, for the most part, it is silent on how they are implementing that view. Recall that even if a trader does make a correct fundamental call, investing successfully on it is another matter. Soros notoriously got many of the basics around the credit crisis correct, including recognizing the oil price spike as largely a bubble, but nevertheless was reported to have wrong-fo
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Important appropriateness of development of modern economy is its cycled character. Puriny every structural crisis of the world economy new opportunities are formed. Capital of the countries, which were leaders during last cycle, is being devaluated. Qualification of lab our forces in field using old technologies are being ruined, while the countries, which managed to create innovational potential proved to be in the center of attracting capital which is independent from the old production. C
An historic election win by Yukio Hatoyama’s Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has broken a deadlock in Japan’s parliament and ushers in a government that has promised to focus spending on consumers, cut wasteful budget outlays and reduce the power of bureaucrats. The DPJ victory ended a half-century of almost unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and breaks a deadlock in parliament. Japan managed to climb out of a yearlong recession in the second quarter, but its economy remains
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