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  <title><![CDATA[Weekly Roundup: Asian Markets Fall On Weak China Data And Euro Zone Debt Concerns]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Asian markets declined this week on increasing concerns about China&#039;s economic slowdown and Greece possibly exiting the euro zone.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 01:17:54 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Stocks - Time To 'Sell In May And Go Away'?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[You can&#039;t blame investors for feeling a bit squeamish regarding deploying new money in the U.S. stock market these days, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s (DJIA) recent slide from 13,300 to 12,450 unnerving even the most experienced institutional investors. Where’s the market headed in the next six months?.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:37:15 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Investors Love Rio: Why Foreign Companies Are Buying Into Brazil's Real Economy]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Investing in Brazil&#039;s booming economy has turned another page as foreign companies, especially Japanese firms, move from putting money into the nation&#039;s financial industry to putting it into the real economy of South America&#039;s largest nation.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:28:23 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Stocks Close Mostly Up Week With Mostly Down Day: Daily Markets Wrap]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[U.S. equities closed a moderately green week with a moderately red day on Friday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 74.92 points, or 0.60 percent, to 12,454.83, the S&P 500 index dropped 2.86 points, or 0.22 percent, to 1,317.82, and the Nasdaq Composite index dipped 1.85 points, or 0.07 percent, to 2,837.53.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:27:15 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[French, Germany Consumer Confidence Holding Up -- A Dangerous Sign of Euro Zone Crisis Fatigue?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[French and German consumer confidence showed unexpected strength, reports showed Friday. While the market is cheering about the &quot;good news,&quot; some economists view this as a warning sign of a euro zone crisis fatigue - something that is as dangerous, if not more so than the crisis itself.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:33:27 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook Shares Drop Again On New Probes Despite Morgan Stanley Investor Pledges]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell 3.4 percent again Friday, a week after their disastrous debut in their initial public offering.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:19:16 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Treasury Declines To Call China A Currency 'Manipulator']]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury declined Friday to name China as a currency manipulator, a move that is likely to intensify an already hot debate in the U.S. presidential campaigning.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:59:07 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Quest Software Jumps On Dell Purchase Report]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Quest Software (Nasdaq; QSFT) jumped 5 percent Friday after a report it would be acquired by Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), for as much as $2 billion.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:55:06 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook Shares Fall In Early Trading]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell in early activity Friday, a week after their disastrous debut in their initial public offering.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:22:37 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pre-Market Movers (Frontline, EMC Corporation, Deutsche Bank, SAP, Carnival Corporation, Wells Fargo & Company and BHP Billiton Limited)]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade Friday are: Frontline Ltd, EMC Corporation, Deutsche Bank AG, SAP AG, Carnival Corporation, Wells Fargo & Company and BHP Billiton Limited.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 06:32:38 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook, ‘Titanic'  Of IPOs, Could Poison Tech Company Pipeline]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Faced with the disastrous fallout from the initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, other technology companies that had been waiting to go next may reconsider.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:49:51 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australian Stock Market Report – Afternoon 5/25/2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Australian sharemarket lost ground for the third consecutive day and week, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) down 0.6 pct or 25 pts to 4081.2 today. Nine out of 12 sectors finished in the red today and the broader market hit a fresh six-month low. On June 17, the Greeks will need to return to the polls to vote for a President for the second time.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:45:26 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Stock Futures Point To Higher Opening Friday]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Futures on major U.S. indices point to a higher opening Friday ahead of the Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index and Inflation Expectation survey.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:29:24 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[BSE Sensex, NSE Nifty Hover Between Red And Green; Oil, Auto And IT Shares Worst Hit]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex started on a negative note Friday and was trading in the red in the morning session.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 04:12:43 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Asian Markets Fall On China And Euro Zone Concerns]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Asian markets fell Friday on increasing concerns about China’s economic slowdown and Greece exiting the euro zone.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 00:59:45 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[$8.5B Budget Approved For Origin and Conoco Australia's LNG Project]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A group of domestic and international banks has granted in principle the $8.5 billion in project financing needed to finally drumroll the $20 billion Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas (LNG) project of Origin Energy Ltd. and ConocoPhillips.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:51:44 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australian Stock Market Report – Midday 5/25/2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Australian share market kicked off the session a little higher for the third time this week, only to start losing ground following some disappointing economic data out from China. The latest HSBC Flash Manufacturing PMI came in at 48.7 down from 49.3 points the month before. By the close of trade the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) fell 12 points to 4,106 points.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:32:34 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA['All Taste, No Nourishment', Euro Leaders Dinner Fails to Inspire]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Despite solid gains from European indices and mild support for U.S stocks, the overall theme of negativity continued to hold risk assets at bay overnight with intermittent periods of strength quickly overcome, with European drama&#039;s remaining the key directive.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:54:00 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Global Markets Overview - 05/25/2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[U.S. stocks finished mostly higher after late afternoon comments from the Italian premier boosted confidence that Greece would stay in the euro zone. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 34 points, or 0.3%, at 12530, after bouncing back from a 0.6% slide.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:24:47 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook Market Makers Losing At Least $100 Million]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Claims by four of Wall Street&#039;s main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook&#039;s botched IPO are likely to exceed $100 million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands of problems with customer orders.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:28:02 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Stocks Close Up Slightly; Euro Down]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Global stocks eked out gains on Thursday while the euro fell as data suggested Europe&#039;s debt woes were spreading and worsening a global economic slowdown.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:42:50 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[HP Shares Gain Slightly On Whitman’s Job Cuts]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer maker, rose about 3 percent to $21.77 on Thursday, following the announcement it would fire 27,000 employees by 2014.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:15:05 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook's Shares Recover, But IPO Wounds Fester]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, rose $1.03 to close at $33.03 on Thursday. A week ago, they were priced at $38 for the IPO.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 12:22:18 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[How’s Facebook Faring On Thursday?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, are up six cents to $32.06 in late morning trading on Thursday.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:22:15 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Child Addicts At Heart Of Indonesia Anti-Smoking Lawsuit]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Anti-tobacco advocates in Indonesia plan to file a class action lawsuit this month using cases of child addicts in the hope of forcing tougher regulations on a society where one in three people smokes.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 09:43:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[HP’s CEO Chops 27,000 Jobs, Investors Cheer]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer maker, leaped as much as 7.4 percent Thursday after the company said Wednesday it would fire 27,000 people.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 09:42:58 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[How Much Value Has Facebook Lost In A Week?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shareholders of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, already know: priced a week ago at $38, shares once hit $45 but closed Wednesday at $32.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:54:33 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Jobless Claims Data Offer No Solace For Recovery Concerns]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The number of Americans lining up for new jobless benefits fell slightly last week to 370,000, but remained above levels posted earlier this year, the Labor Department said Thursday. While matching economists&#039; forecasts, the figure suggests improvement in the labor market is stalling.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:41:07 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Asian Stocks Mixed, European Shares Up, US Futures Higher]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Asian stocks closed mixed Thursday on weak Chinese manufacturing data, while European shares rose and U.S. futures pointed to a higher opening on hope that a U.S. durables goods report for April will be strong.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:18:52 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pre-Market Movers (Hewlett-Packard, Activision Blizzard, Teva, Arch Coal, Aviva, Siemens and China Telecom Corporation)]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday are: Hewlett-Packard Company, Activision Blizzard Inc, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Arch Coal Inc., Aviva Plc, Siemens AG and China Telecom Corporation Limited.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 06:35:06 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Stock Futures Point To Lower Opening Thursday]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Futures on major U.S. indices point to a lower opening Thursday ahead of initial jobless claims and durable orders data.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 06:15:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australian Stock Market Report – Afternoon 5/24/2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Australian sharemarket kicked off the session a little higher for the third time this week, only to start losing ground following some disappointing economic data in China. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) fell 0.3 pct or 12.6 pts to 4106.2. Today, 10 out of 12 sectors finished in the red; however the defensive healthcare industry was the best and rose 1 pct.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 04:40:06 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Asian Markets Fall As Euro Zone Concerns Persist]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Asian markets fell Thursday on increasing concerns about the debt crisis looming over the euro zone as national leaders were unable to present specific steps to overcome the situation in Europe.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 01:51:38 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australian Stock Market Report – Midday 5/24/2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Australian share market lost ground for the first time this week, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) down 54.7 points to 4,118 point. Last night Key European index&#039;s lost 2-3% after discussions at the European Leaders summit in Brussels made no real headway to resolving the current Eurozone, especially Greek, problems.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 23:40:38 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Opposition Blames Carbon Tax for Closure of Hunter Valley Smelter]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Although operators of the soon-to-be shuttered smelter plant in Hunter Valley cited the high Australian dollar and weak prices in the international market for aluminium as the short-term reasons why it would close its Kurri Kurri facility, the Opposition seized the closure of the plant to blame again the carbon tax for the economic woes of companies in Australia.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 23:26:19 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Australian Dollar Outlook - 05/24/2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian dollar has opened this morning around USD.9760, after trading down to a low of USD0.9690 overnight as European
equities followed Asia&#039;s lead falling around 2.5%.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 20:26:41 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Global Markets Overview - 05/24/2012]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[U.S. stocks reversed steep losses to finish the day roughly flat, though European stocks and the euro tumbled to 2012 lows amid growing chatter about a potential Greek exit from the euro zone]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 19:01:10 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Stocks Post Late-Session Recovery: Daily Markets Wrap]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[U.S. stocks cut losses late in Wednesday&#039;s trading session, with two key indexes barely squeaking into positive territory on the strength of surging commodities prices and the shares of companies that produce them.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:41:48 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[HP: Is Whitman’s Ax As Big As IBM’s Gerstner’s?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Margaret Whitman, the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer maker, decided to swing her ax Wednesday as the company reported dreadful second-quarter results.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:37:44 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Oracle To Buy Cloud Social Marketing Platform Vitrue]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Oracle Corp.  (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database company, said it would acquire private cloud media marketer Vitrue for an undisclosed sum a day after German rival SAP (NYSE: SA), Europe&#039;s No. 1 software company, offered to acquire e-commerce specialist Ariba Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA) for $4.3 billion.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:02:29 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[China To Top US As No. 1 Business Travel Destination: Report]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[According to a new report from the Global Business Travel Association, 12- to 15-hour flights to China may soon become the norm for U.S. and European business travelers.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:04:55 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cisco, Dell, HP: Is A Tech Recession Coming?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Because they report quarterly results generally out of the regula,r pattern technology giants Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSC), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) and Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) are technology bellwethers. Do their dismal dismal forecast presage downturn?.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344584/20120523/dell-hewlett-pacakrd-hp-pc-intel-cisco.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:37:01 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[HP 2Q Earnings: Whitman Expected To Swing Ax]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer maker, fell as much as 5.6 percent Wednesday, ahead of its expected announcement of second-quarter results.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344534/20120523/hp-hewlett-packard-pc-firings-whitman-earnings.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344534/20120523/hp-hewlett-packard-pc-firings-whitman-earnings.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:49:25 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[US Housing Sector Stabilizing? April New Home Sales Rise 3.3%]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Sales of new single-family homes in the U.S. rose more than expected in April and prices climbed higher, signaling fresh signs of life in the distressed housing market.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:15:24 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dell Disappoints, With Dismal Outlook, And Shares Dive 15%]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of DELL (Nasdaq: DELL), the No. 3 PC maker, plunged as much as 15 percent after the company reported first-quarter results that trailed analyst estimates for both income and revenue and issued a poor forecast.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344476/20120523/dell-pc-earnings-fall-michael.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344476/20120523/dell-pc-earnings-fall-michael.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:54:46 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Italian Consumer Confidence Hits 15-Year Low, UK Retail Sales Slump]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[European consumers are tightening the purse strings as their confidence in the region&#039;s economy continues to fade amid concern that the recession may worsen.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344474/20120523/italian-consumer-confidence-uk-retail-sales-greece.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344474/20120523/italian-consumer-confidence-uk-retail-sales-greece.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:53:45 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook Shares Rise 3%  Despite Subpoenas, Lawsuit, Complaints About IPO]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, rose nearly 5  percent  Wednesday despite continuing fallout from its May 17 initial public offering.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344443/20120523/facebook-ipo-subpoena-shares-morgan-stnaley.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344443/20120523/facebook-ipo-subpoena-shares-morgan-stnaley.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:29:50 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Facebook, Zuckerberg, Banks Sued Over IPO]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Facebook Inc, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, and several banks led by Morgan Stanley were sued by shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid the social networking leader&#039;s weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion initial public offering.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344431/20120523/facebook-ipo-nasdaq-zuckerberg-banks.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344431/20120523/facebook-ipo-nasdaq-zuckerberg-banks.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:11:42 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Global Stocks Fall On Fears Of Greek Exit From Euro Zone]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Asian, European and U.S. stocks fell hard Wednesday on rising fears and uncertainty about a possible Greek exit from the euro zone as well as concerns over slowing economic growth.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344422/20120523/asian-european-stocks-greek-exit-euro-zone.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344422/20120523/asian-european-stocks-greek-exit-euro-zone.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 08:47:05 EDT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pre-Market Movers (Dell, Facebook, Alcoa,  Renren, Jive Software, BlackRock, Alcatel Lucent, FreightCar America)]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday are: Ares Capital Corp, Alcatel Lucent, FreightCar America, Jive Software, Dell Inc, Renren Inc, BlackRock, Alcoa and Facebook Inc.]]></description>
  <guid>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344395/20120523/pre-market-movers-ares-capital-corp-alcatel.htm</guid>
  <link>http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/344395/20120523/pre-market-movers-ares-capital-corp-alcatel.htm</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:51:28 EDT</pubDate>
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