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How To Access Black Monday's Best-Performing Market (If You Dare)
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 - 9:21am | 642August 24, 2015 will be remembered as another rendition of Black Monday as equity bourses the world over plunged. Things were so bad that various headlines implied the Dow's nearly 600-point tumble was not so bad when considering the blue-chip index opened down by 1,000 points. Well, there...
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Market Wrap For Monday, September 23: Markets Unmoved Despite Kenyan Terror
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 4:19pm | 721It’s rare for global headlines to have little effect on markets. However, the attack on the Westgate mall in Kenya has had virtually no effect on equities, sending the FTSE Kenyan ETF (FTSE: FNKEN2) down just 0.24 percent. Other top stories include the release of Microsoft’s Surface 2....
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What Will Mobile Giants Do With All of Those Used Phones? (TMUS, T, VZ)
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 12:01pm | 637It’s dominated the mobile-market news all week. T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS), Verizon (NYSE: VZ), and AT&T (NYSE: T) are offering a new program where customers can receive a new phone after a specified period by paying a monthly fee. Each plan is slightly different, but generally the way it...
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These Awesome Charts Highlight Just How Diversified (or Homogeneous) Some Nations' Exports Are
Friday, April 12, 2013 - 3:36pm | 136Ever wondered what the leading exports of Antarctica or North Korea or the Solomon Islands are? Well you've come to the right place. Courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons and the Observatory of Economic Complexity, Benzinga has compiled an array of export tree maps from countries and regions around the...
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Could East African Bankers Solution to Inflation Foreshadow China's?
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 2:59pm | 646Three countries in East Africa—Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya—are experiencing high rates of inflation. These countries have seen their currencies depreciate severely over the past year. The currencies of Kenya and Uganda are the worst performing in Africa, year-to-date. According to Reuters,...