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GE's Roadshow For Growth visits Chicago, highlights investments

Chicago - Continuing the 20-city bus tour in celebration of achievements in the middle market, GE Capital's Roadshow For Growth visited Chicago and highlighted the investment commitments the firm has made in the windy city.

In the Media by Michael Krebs

Contrarian investors still urging people to buy gold despite drop

Palm Beach - At a time when gold and silver have been performing sluggishly, the general view on Wall Street has been to get out of gold. However, a large number of contrarian investors are still urging people to buy precious metals.

In the Media by Andrew Moran

Companies investing more in Internet services as traffic grows

Herndon - Studies have shown that Internet traffic keeps increasing with each passing year. In North America alone, traffic has grown by as much as 50 percent per year in the past decade. It is expected that it will quadruple by the year 2014.

In the Media by Andrew Moran

Obama plans to invest in infrastructure

Miami - President Obama on Friday unveiled plans to invest billions of dollars in to America's infrastructure as he tries to get the economy moving in the right direction.

In the Media by Lewis McCathie - 5 comments

Op-Ed: European Debt Crises and Currency Survival

What has been perhaps the most significant factor in the European Debt Crisis for the currencies markets has not been the actual event itself, but the reaction of global central bankers..

In the Media by Anna Timone

Financial service allows investors to be their own money managers

San Francisco - Investing your money can be rather intimidating, costly and time-consuming. Since the financial collapse of 2007/2008, millions of Americans' investments were wiped out, which has led to caution. Is there a simpler way to invest?

In the Media by Andrew Moran

UK publisher Pearson to invest in Nook media

London - Global media company Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, has announced an investment of $89.5 million in the Nook series of e-readers and tablets.

In the Media by Paris Franz - 1 comment

Why Warren Buffett stayed away from the Facebook IPO

Last May, a few weeks before Facebook went public with its IPO, Warren Buffett had said in not so many words, investing in Facebook is something he'd planned to steer clear of doing.

In the Media by Leigh Goessl - 6 comments

500 Startups' Uscoop announces launch of Tuckernuck sister site

Flash sale site and 500 Startups participant Uscoop today announced the launch of their new full price preppy site, Tuckernuck.

In the Media by Eleanor Wall

Glaxo to invest in UK following tax break

London - The 'big pharma' giant GlaxoSmithKline has announced that it will take advantage of a UK tax break and invest heavily in the UK to the tune of $800 million. This reverses a trend of larger pharmaceutical corporations leaving the UK.

In the Media by Tim Sandle - 5 comments