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As a group, Japanese tech companies are growing by only 1% a year, compared to 5% to 10% growth in developing nations and 2% to 3% in other developed nations, according to management consultant McKinsey.
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The financial industry is stabilizing, but one area that is positively bustling is that of independent insurance-product distribution through banks.
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Deutsche Boerse said it completed the move of its Xetra electronic stock trading market to a new data center.
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The investment banker Emmett J. Daly pinpointed the reason there have not been more bank deals: renewed jitters about jobs and real estate have meddled with pricing.
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Increases in initial public offerings would normally benefit banks, but a recent surge in IPO activity is instead threatening to further shrink lenders' balance sheets.
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Assets in U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes rose 39% from a year ago to $1.098 trillion at the end of June, up from nearly $788 billion at the end of June 2010, the National Stock Exchange said.
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Porfolio Rethink has introduced seven new indexes that it says are alternatives to the 19th-century Standard & Poors 500 and Dow Jones Industrial average. Today, the company says, companies are global and investors are much more sophisticated.
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The wind is at the back of alternative energy and it has a sunny future that investors should prepare to capitalize on. Thats the word from Anna Davydova, portfolio manager of Fidelity Select Environment and Alternative Energy.
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On Tuesday the American Bankruptcy Institute announced that U.S. consumer bankruptcy filings decreased 8% to 709,303 nationwide through June 30, down from 770,117 total consumer filings a year earlier.
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In a major sting operation by a joint task force involving the Securities and Exchange Commissions South Florida Regional Office, the U.S. Attorneys Office in Miami and the FBI, an alleged scheme involving several penny stock promoters and several CEOs of microchip companies has been exposed, with fraud charges filed against the principals.
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