| | BOSTON (Reuters) - Kevin Kaminski and Maureen Clarke rented their dream home last November: A pre-Victorian farmhouse in Hamilton, Massachusetts, with a sun-drenched southern exposure, fireplaces in every room, original hardwood floors and more than an acre of land adjacent to a wooded park. | |  |  | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New claims for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week and demand for long-lasting manufactured goods edged up in April, suggesting the economy continued to expand at a moderate pace. | | | |  | | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The fallout from Facebook Inc's messy initial public offering widened on Wednesday as shareholders sued the social network and its bankers while a trading firm revealed a massive loss on the shares and threatened to seek "remedies." | | | |  | | | | (Reuters) - After years of insulating risk-takers from the consequences of their decisions, maybe it's finally time to try something else. | | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Short sellers desperate to bet against Facebook shortly after its debut on public markets are now getting their chance. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If you work with an investment adviser, there's a decent chance that sometime during the last year, you've had a conversation about alternative investments. | | | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Artists are not renowned for financial savvy, but their success in raising money on the Internet through donations to crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo could lead the way for a new class of investing. Soon investors will be able to pile money into startups through such sites with the hope of getting more than a lousy t-shirt in return. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. money market fund assets increased by $1.35 billion to $2.541 trillion in the week ended May 22, the Money Fund Report said on Wednesday. | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's pension fund assets rose 5.96 percent to $150.3 billion in the 2012 fiscal year, not far from the $154 billion peak set in 2007, the state's comptroller said on Wednesday. | | | | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge funds turned their backs on Johnson & Johnson and Amazon.com Inc in the last months, kicking the former market darlings into a group where they see stock prices dropping, research from Goldman Sachs shows. | | | | |  |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
No comments:
Post a Comment