Health-care Stocks: Walgreen, Omnicare to trade assets
The drugstore giant and pharmaceutical provider will swap assets in a deal designed to fill gaps in each other’s businesses, but the transaction did little to jolt either company’s shares.

Dividends Aren’t Enough: Drug Services
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Don’t Buy This Clean Energy Stock Yet!
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Nordic American Tanker Shipping’s Dividends May Not Last Forever
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How Safe Are Xilinx’s Dividends?
Let’s find out.

4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Dow Chemical
Market-trouncing returns could be written in this four-star.

Pfizer Takes an Orphan Into the Fold
Rare diseases are the new black.

NewsWatch: Stocks trim early gains after weak service data
The major U.S. indexes get a boost from a report showing that job losses slowed more than expected in August, boosting hopes that the economic recovery is still on track.

Ford Hits a Pothole
Sales declined in August. Should investors worry?

Don’t Make This Life-Changing Mistake
Too many people have given up life insurance coverage.

The One Thing You Must Know About Occidental Petroleum
Learn the most important metrics when evaluating a CEO.

5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Gilead Sciences
Market-trouncing returns could be written in these five stars.

The 10 Best Semiconductor Values
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Does Bristol-Meyers Squibb Pass Buffett’s Test?
Discover one of the Oracle of Omaha’s favorite ways to size up a stock.

Weakening Hurricane Earl heads for New England
Hurricane Earl batters the North Carolina shore and heads up the coastline toward Virginia and Massachusetts early Friday.

Apple TV Could Help Netflix Growth
Netflix just keeps growing…

Sirius XM Has a Stern Decision to Make
Howard Stern may have plans that don’t include Sirius XM.

Burger King agrees to $3.3 billion sale to 3G Capital
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Burger King Holdings Inc agreed to sell itself to investment firm 3G Capital for $3.26 billion, giving the No. 2 U.S. fast-food chain breathing room to fix its business and close the gap with leader McDonald’s Corp.

Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.

Heavy in dollars, China warns of depreciation
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Friday offered a rare glimpse into its foreign exchange reserves, confirming that they are overwhelmingly allocated in dollars, while a central banker said the mountain of cash could face depreciation risks.

Robert Powell: Health law’s retiree perk won’t last long
If you are among the estimated 1.3 million retirees too young to qualify for Medicare but fortunate enough to have employer-sponsored health care coverage, count your blessings. The next two years could bring a bit of a windfall.

Stocks rise on economic hopes ahead of payrolls
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks rose on low volume on Thursday as data showed improvement in housing and the job market a day ahead of the critical monthly payrolls figures.

Realty Q&A: Don’t tap retirement fund to pay off mortgage
In this week’s Realty Q&A, a retiree says his only debt is his $94,000 mortgage, and he wonders whether he should tap his 401(k) to pay off that bill. Lew Sichelman offers some advice.

Earnings Watch: Updates, advisories and surprises
A roundup of the latest corporate earnings reports and what companies are saying about future quarters.

Corrections: AIG falls amid reports of Hong Kong AIA listing
A MarketWatch report late Thursday misstated the timing of AIG share losses, which occurred in after-hours trading.

China approached Canadian fund on rival Potash bid
MELBOURNE/TORONTO (Reuters) – Chinese and other investors have approached at least one big Canadian pension manager about a bid for Canada’s Potash Corp to rival BHP Billiton’s $39 billion hostile offer.

Caixin Online: Chinese funds lose big in first half of 2010
China-based funds lose a total of $64.6 billion in the first half of this year, although they also collect more in management fees, reports Caixin Online.

The 10 Best Semiconductor Values
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Will Tyco Electronics’ Dividends Last?
Evaluating the sustainability of dividend payments.

Retail and jobs data fail to lift Wall St
US stocks were almost flat in early trading after jobless figures and same store sales added to continuing deal activity, including Hewlett-Packard upping its bid in the battle for 3Par

A look at economic developments around the globe (AP)
AP – A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Wednesday:

US companies cut 10,000 jobs in August
Private-sector employment in the US fell for the first time this year in August, underscoring fears that a recovery in the labour market is faltering, but a surprise rise in manufacturing activity offered a glimmer of hope for the sputtering economy

China Education Resources Inc. Reports Revenues of US$894,214 in Q2, 2010
www.chinaeducationresources.com TSX VENTURE SYMBOL: CHN PINK SHEETS: CHNUF VANCOUVER, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – China Education Resources Inc. (”China Education”, “CER”, “the Company”) (TSX VENTURE:CHN) (PINK SHEETS:CHNUF) – released its unaudited results for the second quarter ended June 30

Sony rises to digital-media challenge
Sony will begin its latest attempt to fight back against Apple’s dominance in the digital media field, when it unveils a new music and video subscription service to run across a range of its devices

Fed approves sale of Morgan Stanley stock shares (AP)
AP – The Federal Reserve has approved a request by a Chinese sovereign wealth fund to acquire up to 10 percent of the voting shares of New York investment giant Morgan Stanley.

GLG chief to become Man Group COO
Emmanuel Roman, the co-chief executive of hedge fund GLG Partners, will become the new chief operating officer of Man Group under a plan to acquire the fund manager

SEC probes cancelled trades in flash crash: report (Reuters)
Reuters – U.S. securities regulator is looking into a Wall Street trading practice in which unusually large numbers of orders to buy or sell stocks are placed in a fraction of a second, only to be canceled almost immediately, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Sony in streaming challenge to Apple
Sony set out its challenge to Apple and Google as it revealed an internet ‘cloud-based’ music streaming service that would be available on many of its networked consumer electronics products

Asia stocks gain on brighter US manufacturing data (AP)

AP – Asian stock markets advanced Thursday as stronger manufacturing growth in the U.S. snapped a run of gloomy economic indicators and sent Wall Street soaring.

Markets start September with a bang; Dow up 255 (AP)

AP – The fear that has been hanging over markets for most of August lifted on Wednesday. For how long remains anyone’s guess.

Sony rises to digital-media challenge
Sony will begin its latest attempt to fight back against Apple’s dominance in the digital media field, when it unveils a new music and video subscription service to run across a range of its devices

How the major stock indexes fared Wednesday (AP)
AP – Stocks jumped Wednesday after surprisingly strong growth in U.S. and Chinese manufacturing allayed some of the worries that had been building over the global economy in recent weeks. The new reports snapped a string of disappointing economic data that sent stocks slumping in August.

Some BofA shareholders can apply to tap $150M fund (AP)

AP – Investors who lost money when Bank of America Corp. bought Merrill Lynch without disclosing Merrill’s problems can start applying to tap a $150 million compensation fund.

Sony in streaming challenge to Apple
Sony set out its challenge to Apple and Google as it revealed an internet “cloud-based” music streaming service that would be available on many of its networked consumer electronics products

Auto sales post weakest August since 1983
DETROIT (Reuters) – Automakers posted their weakest U.S. August sales in 27 years, underscoring uncertainty about the strength of the recovery in the world’s largest economy.

GLG chief to become Man Group COO
Emmanuel Roman, the co-chief executive of hedge fund GLG Partners, will become the new chief operating officer of Man Group under a plan to acquire the fund manager

SEC says it lacked authority to charge Moody’s (AP)
AP – The Securities and Exchange Commission has declined to seek fraud charges against Moody’s Investors Services over its ratings of risky investments that led to the financial crisis.

Goldman swims downstream for PetroAlgae IPO (Reuters)
Reuters – No client is too small for Goldman Sachs Group Inc these days, even a company with no revenue that’s owned by a hedge fund specializing in penny stocks.

NYC Unemployment Rate Slides to 9.4 Percent in July
Wall Street brokerages hired 1,200 people in July, increasing the sector’s employment to 160,800 people.

JPMorgan Chase Shutting Down Prop Trading
JPMorgan Chase &Co has told commodities traders who bet with the bank’s money that their desk will be shut down, as it looks to comply with new U.S. banking laws, a person briefed on the matter said.

Bloomberg Tradebook Forges Dark Pool Transparency Agreements
Tradebook also launched its B-Dark algorithm, which contains the first analytic to deliver real-time venue transparency in dark pools, allowing traders to execute dark liquidity orders with more control and visibility.

Jennifer Waters’s Consumer Confidential: New credit-card tricks snare consumers
Just when you thought it was safe to trust your credit-card issuer again, along come new warnings about how they might be scamming you, reports Jennifer Waters.

Neptuny Launches New Virtualization Planning Tool
Caplan 3.3 new features include virtualization planning, benchmark management, tagging, filtering and searching enhancement, and integration of new data sources.

David Callaway: Mrs. Watanabe corners global currency market
In Japan, where stocks have been out of favor for 20 years and the yen is sacrosanct, lives Mrs. Watanabe. She’s a mythical housewife representing thousands of small Japanese investors, and Dave Callaway argues that global central banks ought to keep a closer eye on her.

Burger King in sale talks: source
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Burger King Holdings Inc , the second biggest U.S. hamburger chain, is in talks to sell itself to investment firm 3G Capital, a source briefed on the situation said on Wednesday.

Apple TV takes aim at Web-connected living room
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc unveiled a smaller, cheaper version of its Web-to-TV device on Wednesday, stepping up a battle with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp for control of the digital living room.

Goldman swims downstream for PetroAlgae IPO (Reuters)
Reuters – No client is too small for Goldman Sachs Group Inc these days, even a company with no revenue that’s owned by a hedge fund specializing in penny stocks.

A look at economic developments around the globe (AP)
AP – A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Wednesday:

Ex-hedge fund manager charged with insider trading (Reuters)
Reuters – A former hedge fund manager has been accused by a U.S. regulator of illegal insider trading in MedImmune Inc securities prior to the acquisition of the pharmaceutical company by Britain’s AstraZeneca Plc.

Sinochem hires HSBC regarding Potash options: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – China’s Sinochem has hired HSBC bank to advise it on its options regarding Potash Corp , the target of a $38.6 billion hostile bid from BHP Billiton, the Wall Street Journal reported on its blog on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the situation.

How the major stock indexes fared Wednesday (AP)
AP – Stocks jumped Wednesday after surprisingly strong growth in U.S. and Chinese manufacturing allayed some of the worries that had been building over the global economy in recent weeks. The new reports snapped a string of disappointing economic data that sent stocks slumping in August.

ICE Cuts Staff at Chicago Climate Exchange
Market operator Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is laying off staff at newly acquired U.S. environmental bourse the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), industry sources told Reuters, citing a lack of U.S. action on climate change.

U.S. Judge Approves BofA Settlement Fund
A federal judge approved the creation of a $150 million fund for Bank of America Corp shareholders as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the bank’s 2009 acquisition of Merrill Lynch.

GLG chief to become Man Group COO
Emmanuel Roman, the co-chief executive of hedge fund GLG Partners, will become the new chief operating officer of Man Group under a plan to acquire the fund manager

Apple raises stakes in TV battle
The digital entertainment company made its most serious bid yet for the internet-connected television market, slashing the price and size of its AppleTV product by more than half

Bloomberg Tradebook Forges Dark Pool Transparency Agreements
Tradebook also launched its B-Dark algorithm, which contains the first analytic to deliver real-time venue transparency in dark pools, allowing traders to execute dark liquidity orders with more control and visibility.

JP Morgan Veteran Sean Gallagher Joins Fiserv’s Investment Services Group
Gallagher has experience with the hedge fund, asset manager and broker-dealer segments.

Using Real-Time Events in Electronic Trading
Event data is evolving from machine-readable news to give electronic traders new real-time factors

SimCorp Launches Version 4.8 Of Straight-Through-Processing Solution
The release features updates and new modules designed to further automate workflow processes throughout the back, middle and front office, SimCorp said.

Runaway Algo Shows New Rules Needed, Says Commission
A malfunctioning algorithm that caused a $1 surge in oil prices earlier this year shows the need for regulators to zero in on the risks posed by high-speed trading, an official from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Thursday.

What You Need to Know About Margins at Agnico-Eagle Mines
Keep your eye on margins.

Meet the Cash Kings of Publishing
These companies are rolling in greenbacks.

Google Takes Another Shot At Telecoms
The addition of phone service to Gmail should worry traditional telecom companies.

Meet the Cash Kings of Medical Laboratories
These companies are rolling in greenbacks.

Accuray Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2010
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010, ended June 30, 2010. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, Accuray reported total r

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