• Obama to call for 'year of action'

  US president will announce in his State of the Union address that the minimum wage for federal contractors will be raised to $10.10 an hour

• Nucor Management Discusses Q4 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  Nucor ( NUE ) Q4 2013 Earnings Call January 28, 2014 2:00 pm ET Executives John J. Ferriola - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President James D. Frias - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Treasurer Keith B. Grass - Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer of DJJ…

• The 70-year wait for primary school

  The 70-year wait for primary school

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• Will Flash Memory Spell The End Of The Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Industry?

  By Robert Castellano : Monumental changes are taking place in the competitive storage industry, and changes are underway that could spell the end of the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industry as we know it. Solid State Devices made from NAND flash memory chips, continue to gain market share versus HDDs.…

• Courting the golden girl of tennis

  Selling the new golden girl of women's tennis

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• Volumes have started to recover

  Economic growth and rising commercial property prices, particularly in the regions, point to a broader recovery of the UK CMBS market

• Yahoo suffers from Alibaba slowdown

  Yahoo reports 6% drop in GAAP revenue to $4.7bn in 2013 and a 2% fall in closely watched revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs

• Managing Risk With Less Prediction And More Discipline

  By David Fabian : This week investors received their first taste of real volatility since the mild June 2013 shakeup in the markets. Being that we have gone well over six months without a serious hiccup in stocks, it's certainly a jolt to the senses when the SPDR S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ) drops…

• Loving Bonds (Conditionally): Fixed Income Investing Themes For 2014

  About a month ago, I wrote a post advising investors to rethink their approach to traditional bonds in 2014. With the New Year now underway, it's a good time to take a deeper dive into fixed income markets to consider where (and how) to find opportunities. As I've done for the past couple of…

• Wall Street rebounds; futures fly on Turkey's rate hike

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks bounced back on Tuesday after Pfizer's upbeat results gave investors some relief from the pain of the Dow's five-day losing streak, and the market's focus turned to the Federal Reserve's next move on stimulus.

• Yahoo's fourth-quarter revenue slides as ad prices dip again

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's online ad prices slid again in the fourth quarter and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant in which it owns a big stake, saw revenue growth decelerate from its recent rip-roaring pace.

• Obama's economy in 17 charts

  When the president entered office in 2009, the economy was issue No. 1. It still is today.

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• Argentina's Problem Is Not Fed Tapering

  By Calafia Beach Pundit : The media meme which posits that Fed tapering has caused big problems in the emerging market world ignores lots of facts to the contrary, especially in Argentina. Argentina experienced a significant devaluation of its peso last week, but the bigger picture is that the peso…

• Title: United States Steel's CEO Discusses Q4 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  United States Steel Corporation ( X ) Q4 2013 Earnings Conference Call January 28, 2014 4:00 PM ET Executives Dan Lesnak – Manager-Investor Relations Mario Longhi – President and Chief Executive Officer David B. Burritt – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Analysts …

• Housing Prices Continue To Recover, But Business Investment Still Sluggish

  By Calafia Beach Pundit : (click to enlarge) The Case-Shiller housing price index, shown in the chart above, may not be a perfect measure of housing prices, but it's probably the best one we have. The data for November, released today, is several months old, but it shows an ongoing recovery…

• Turkish central bank in rate raise

  After an emergency meeting, the Turkish central bank raises its overnight lending rate to 12% from 7.75% to help stabilise the lira.

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• Here's What The Buy Side Expects From Qualcomm

  Qualcomm Inc. ( QCOM ) is set to report FQ1 2014 earnings on Wednesday, January 29th. Qualcomm is an American global semiconductor company that produces and designs products and services for telecommunications devices, including high end smart phones. Products include Snapdragon mobile phone…

• A $10 Billion Market By 2022: Pharmacyclic's Piece Of It

  By YCharts : By David J. Phillips Through decade's end, the non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL) therapy market should continue to be dominated by Roche's ( RHHBY ) Rituxan and Takeda's ( TKPHF ) Velcade. Nonetheless, Phaymacyclic ( PCYC ) and its novel kinase inhibitor Imbruvica,…

• Preferred Stocks Pay 7%: Risks And Taxes Explained

  By YCharts : By Carla Fried In a recent round up of 2014 income opportunities, Barron's made a pitch for preferred stocks as a solid choice for income seekers, given eye catching yields of 7% or so these days, and better liquidity than corporate bonds. And as the article pointed out, some…