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Finally, no more rumors, no more speculation, Verizon Wireless has officially announced they will be servicing the iPhone come February 10th of this year.

David Rosenberg, chief economist at Toronto's Gluskin Sheff, is continually publishing interesting graphs.  Below one from  Tags:

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The WEF (World Economic Forum) ranks the competitiveness of world economies every year.  Two years ago the U.S. was ranked first.  Last year Switzerland moved ahead, dropping the U.S.

Three graphs today at the 5-Min. Forecast go a long way toward telling the story of where we are in this economic recovery.

Something has got to give according to reader Albertarocks.  He is the prime contributor to a series of Seeking Alpha Instablogs devoted to following the Hindenberg Omen.  See  Tags:

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Earnings season is upon us yet again, giving anxious investors plenty to chew on as equity markets look for direction in the second half of the year.

The minutes of the Federal Reserve Board meeting June 22-23 were released today, July 14.  The essential news is that the Fed's economic outlook was lowered slightly from the April meeting.&nb

As global equity markets plummeted in the final quarter of 2008 and first two months of 2009, many investors watched in horror as gains that were accrued over several years slipped away in a matter