In mid-July 2007, the Dow Jones index made what appeared to be an important top, as you can see from the chart below. Naturally, this gave rise among the usual TV pundits to pessimistic perceptions of the US economy, the long-term impact of the war in Iraq, and so on.
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Whether day trading or trading the daily/weekly time frame, arguably the single biggest mistake that most traders make is Over trading. It might be forex trading, stock index trading or even option trades. It makes no difference.
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A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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It's curtains for the presidential campaign of Fred Thompson, whose campaign failed to capitalize on early momentum and never won any presidential contests.
"Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for president of the United States," read a statement that the former Tennessee senator released this afternoon.
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Spurs were in rampant mood at White Hart Lane and ran out 5-1 winners on the night to see the tie end 6-2 on aggregate.
Jermaine Jenas got the ball rolling for Juande Ramos' side after just three minutes with a low strike, before Nicklas Bendtner headed into his own net from Jenas' free-kick.
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What about Eli Manning winning three playoff games on the road, prevailing in minus-4 degree weather in Green Bay and leading the underdog Giants to the Super Bowl? My God, look at the previous sentence again! Just look at it! I can't get over it.
Has there ever been a more improbable Super Bowl QB? Right after the winning field goal Sunday night, poor Eli had to run 40 yards before he found a teammate to hug ... and when he found one, it was punter Jeff Feagles. High comedy. Thi
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The reason is pretty simple. General manager Bill Polian built the Indianapolis Colts franchise around him.
Manning not only changed the fortunes of the Colts, but he changed the standard of quarterback play around the NFL. He came into the league in 1998 when the quarterback position was in the abyss. Some teams held on to aging quarterbacks too long while others rushed NFL Europe quarterbacks into starting jobs.
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Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson announced today he is giving up his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, succumbing after failing to break the top two positions in either Iowa or South Carolina, the two states in which he competed.
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On Wednesday morning, the Indian stock market may have opened high on the back of a 0.75% rate cut by the US Fed, giving some respite to market players. But investors on Dalal Street have lost a whopping Rs 18.05 trillion in the last seven days of market mayhem that included a fall of more than 4,000 points in the benchmark 30-share Sensitive Index or Sensex.
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Finquest Securities has come out with research report on J Kumar Infraprojects IPO. The firm believes that, at upper band of Rs 120 the issue is attractively priced. They are positive on the company’s future prospects.
J Kumar Infraprojects (JKIL), a civil engineering and infrastructure development company, has opened for subscription with an initial public offering (IPO) of 65,00,000 equity shares at price band between Rs 110 and Rs 120 per equity share. The issue will close on Ja
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The thing about life is that one makes mistakes. Many mistakes were made in the second half of 2007 and those sins have to be washed away by blood, such is the way of financial markets. Some participants will go down under and never be able to get back to the market again but most will survive. The pain will linger for many months, maybe years but lessons have to be learnt. Every such debacle has lessons for us and the sooner we forget them the more we suffer.
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Speaking at a press conference, Anil Ambani, Group Chairman and CEO, Reliance ADAG said the Reliance Power IPO has got over USD 100 billion bids from foreign investors. He added that it is the largest IPO in the Asia Pacific power sector, reports CNBC-TV18.
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With the US Federal Reserve announcing an interest rate cut of 75 basis points, Indian industry has demanded similar measures from its central bank with the hope it would arrest a possible industrial slowdown.
'With inflation under control and hovering around three percent, it is the right time for RBI (Reserve Bank of India) to cut repurchase (repo) and reverse repo rates,' the Confederation of Indian Industry said in a statement Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - Tablets containing a combination of the blood pressure medication aliskiren and water pill hydrochlorothiazide have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the product's manufacturer, Novartis AG, said Monday.
Sold under the name Tekturna in the United States, the hypertension compound aliskiren was approved last March. It acts by targeting renin, an enzyme responsible for high blood pressure.
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(HealthDay News) -- A person's genetic make-up seems to influence how he or she reacts to certain hypertension medications.
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In the future, being able to match genes with medications may help save a patient's life, experts predict
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