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Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-Nevada), earlier this month reiterated that any new budget deal, aimed at averting  series of draconian spending cuts or sequester—which is scheduled to come into effect from March 1— would have to include additional revenue through taxes.

FEI Company (NASDAQ:FEIC)- The company is a supplier for scientific instruments for nanoscale imaging analysis and prototyping that enables research development and manufacturing in industrial academic and research institutional applications.

Continuing dispute over Apple’s cash £137bn of cash reserves Apple has cancelled a shareholder vote following a decision to block it by a US judge after a lawsuit was brought against the company by shareholder David Einhorn. The technology giant had intended for shareholders to vote on plans on whether to abolish the company’s contractual […]

Ford Motor Co.(NYSE:F)- Ford Motor Company engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, and service of vehicles and related parts worldwide. The company operates through two sectors, Automotive and Financial Services.

ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) – Conocophilps explores, produces, transports and markets crude oil natural gas natural gas liquids liquidities natural gas and bitumen on a worldwide basis. Company has activities in 30 countries.

No one in their right mind ever said that business is easy.  Even the biggest and best of companies suffer the slings and arrows of misfortune.  BAE Systems (LSE:BA.) is an example. Despite less than spectacular results for 2012, investors showed confidence in BAE today, boosting the company’s share price by 5.1% to 349.1.  Shareholder […]

One of the biggest stories doing the round on Wall Street these days is that Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), the Texas-based tech giant is going private. In this article I will be focussing about the Dell Buyout, starting with the Dell story over the years, then moving towards why is Dell going private, who are the […]

Household care products company Reckitt Benckiser (LSE:RB.) pleased investors today with its 2012 results and its plans for 2013 and beyond.  Its share price on the London exchange had risen by 91.0 pence (2.09%) to 4454.0 by 1:30 this afternoon. The company reported 2012 results in line with expectations with a 5% growth in operating […]

President uses State of the Union address to economic growth Barack Obama has called for action to “reignite” the US economy. During his annual State of the Union address to both houses of congress, the President argued that the country had “cleared away the rubble of crisis, and we can say with renewed confidence that […]

This is the annual letter sent out by my friend Richard Poulden. This year – as every year – we wil hold a 10 minute debate at the UKInvestor Show – I am not sure of the subject matter yet but it is always sparky. I am not sure that I agree 100% on China […]