• Like The Black Knight, Societe Generale Isn't Dead Yet

  By Stephen Simpson, CFA : French-based multinational bank Societe Generale ( OTCPK:SCGLY ) definitely got some parts lopped off during the credit crisis and European recession, but the bank has since proven that reports of its demise (or perpetual irrelevancy) were greatly exaggerated. The…

• The Unloved Bull Turns Five: Monthly Survey Of The Economy, Interest Rates, Sectors And Markets

  By Jim Kelleher : The bull market, which just turned five years old, has benefited from being at first disbelieved and then, for nearly its entire duration, unloved. The bull had barely blown out the candles on his five-year birthday cake when the cavils and quibbles started. As in, "Isn't…

• Defy Putin By Making A 50% Return On CTC Media

  By Steve Alexander : Russia has certainly been busy over the past few months. Perhaps not willing to relinquish the spotlight after the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russia's leader Vladimir Putin has moved decisively into geopolitical conflicts in the Ukraine, most recently announcing the annexation…

• Vape Holdings: Hot Marijuana Stock With A Ridiculous $235 Million Market Valuation

  By Charles Moscoe : So my friend Alex, who is a perfect contrarian indicator, called me the other day to ask me how to trade stocks. The last investment idea he had was buying a bunch of Bitcoin at $1200, effectively calling the top of that market. This time he has an itch to "invest"…

• UK unemployment falls by 63,000

  UK unemployment fell by 63,000 to 2.33 million in the three months to January, with the jobless rate at 7.2%.

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• Partnership to the manner born

  Steve Groves, Partnership Assurance chief executive, lays blame for decline in new business premiums firmly at the door of the market

• Stocks: Refocusing on the Fed

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• A High-Risk, High-Reward Way To Buy Bank Of America

  By Josh Arnold: A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article in which I made a case for getting long Bank of America ( BAC ) via warrants that are relics of the financial crisis. Specifically, the Series A warrants (BAC-WTA, depending on your broker), which are up more than 15% just since that article…

• Russia's U.S. debt not a threat

  Russia can't flex it's muscles by threatening to dump U.S. debt, and U.S. might not have a chance to freeze Russia's bond holdings.

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• That's Pseudonymous, Not Anonymous

  By SA Editor Eli Hoffmann : Seeking Alpha has received a surprising amount of media attention recently over pending litigation regarding the StockTalks of a Seeking Alpha contributor last year. I'm not going to comment on that case. But I do feel this is an opportunity to explain how Seeking…

• Why China Will Not Dominate The 21st Century

  By CFA Institute Contributors : by Lauren Foster China, notes author and historian Jonathan Fenby , "breeds superlatives." It is the world's most populous country (a staggering 1.3 billion inhabitants); its Communist Party is the planet's biggest political movement; it contains…

• GM: Steps to a recall nightmare

  These are the events that led up to GM's worldwide recall of 1.6 million cars, blamed for at least 12 deaths.

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• FOMC And More

  By Marc Chandler : The main interest today is the FOMC meeting. There are four elements of today's decision. First is the statement itself. It will likely recognize that the economy has slowed and that temporary factors were the main culprit. This signals confidence that the economic expansion…

• Pro-Russian forces take Ukraine navy HQ

  Kiev says its defence minister and deputy prime minister would fly to the peninsula for talks but Crimea's pro-Russian PM says they would be unwelcome

• Customers not scared off by GM recall

  Recent headlines about recalls haven't been great for General Motors. But there has been little impact at used and new car lots.

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• JPMorgan to sell physical commodities business to Mercuria

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. investment bank JPMorgan has agreed to sell its physical commodities business to Mercuria, sources close to the deal said on Wednesday, catapulting the Swiss trade house into the top tier of commodities traders.

• BMW says expects to improve product pricing with new models

  MUNICH (Reuters) - BMW Chief Financial Officer Friedrich Eichiner said on Wednesday the launch of new models such as the BMW Active Tourer as well as the X4 sports utility vehicle will help the Munich-based premium auto maker to improve pricing.

• S&P 500 Best Dividend Stocks According To O'Neil Principles

  By Arie Goren: A Ranking system sorts stocks from best to worst based on a set of weighted factors. Portfolio123 has a powerful ranking system which allows the user to create complex formulas according to many different criteria. They also have highly useful several groups of pre-built ranking…

• New Corolla: No longer the king of the hill

  I had hopes that the world's most popular car would, once again, be something great. Sorry, but it's not.

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• Industry Prospects And Google's Initiatives To Cause Its Future Growth To Flourish

  By Blackstone Equity Research : Google Inc. ( GOOG ) is an American multinational corporation specializing in internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software, and online advertising technologies. AdWords, an online advertising service has evolved into a…