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Adding Some Volatility To The Cybersecurity ETF Trade
Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 3:23pm | 611The PureFunds ISE Cyber Security ETF (NYSE: HACK), the kingpin of cybersecurity exchange-traded funds, has, as of this writing, lost more than 5 percent since November 4. This coincides with the retreat of previously darling cyber security stocks, such as FireEye Inc (NASDAQ: FEYE) and CyberArk...
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5 Companies That Narrowly Escaped Disaster
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 5:19pm | 472With the low point of the Financial Crisis now more than six years in the rear-view mirror, 24/7 Wall Street recently compiled a list of five of the biggest turnaround stories since the market crash. These five companies teetered on the brink of disaster, but they have since made major comebacks...
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America's 5 Most-Hated Companies
Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 9:07am | 495The site 24/7 Wall St. recently ranked America’s most-hated companies based on metrics -- rating companies on customer service, employee satisfaction and share price performance. Here are America’s five most-hated companies: 5. Bank Of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) Poor share price...
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Women Control 3/4 of America's Wealth -24/7 Wall St
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 2:43pm | 27Women control about $19 trillion of wealth, including earned and inherited assets, which accounts for more than three-quarters of our nationʼs financial resources, according to 24/7 Wall St.
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As Oracle Sues Google, Tech IP Issues Are Too Close For Comfort
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 8:51am | 260There have been for some time a collection of companies that gathers patents and then uses them to sue large technology firms. The issues are often unclear enough and cost of litigation high enough that the plaintiffs walk away with settlements Beyond the patent-for-hire firms there is a growing...
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What the Double Dip Recession Will Look Like
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 8:46am | 394“Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the economy has yet to hit bottom, a sharply higher percentage than the 53% who felt that way in January,” according to a recent Wall Street Journal poll. A growing and vocal minority of economists believes that there will be a double dip recession primarily...
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Chronic Unemployment Crushes Health
Monday, July 12, 2010 - 10:47am | 134Chronic unemployment undermines a person’s sense of freedom in a free society. That is one of the reasons the extended economic downturn, in its third year and perhaps still in progress, has done such a great deal to harm the morale of average citizens. Many jobless people have now lost their...
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Can Apple Overtake ExxonMobil As #1 By Market Cap? (AAPL, XOM, MSFT, BP, XTO, USO)
Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 12:16pm | 24024/7 Wall Street keeps a list of America’s biggest companies by market capitalization rates in its own proprietary Real-Time 500. The issue worth consideration here may seem rhetorical, yet it is almost hard to fathom in thought. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) could overtake ExxonMobil Corporation (...