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Martin Franklin Resigns From Apollo Investment Corporation’s Board of Directors  (Mutual Funds)

Martin Franklin Resigns From Apollo Investment Corporation’s Board of Directors 
Apollo Investment Corporation (NASDAQ: AINV)(the ‘Company’) today announced that Martin E. Franklin has resigned fromthe Company’s Board of Directors, effective as of December 29, 2006.

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To Regain My Composure, I Had To Ignore Any Outside Option Market Investing Information (Investment)

To Regain My Composure, I Had To Ignore Any Outside Option Market Investing Information
When I received it, there was no doubt: the option market investing information was clearer and more familiar. But I had learned my lesson. I decided to make it a permanent rule that I must never visit a brokerage office again for option market investing information. Also my brokers must be prohibited from picking up the telephone and calling me. I must only have option market investing information by cable - and nothing else. Even if I returned to the New York hotel, the scene of my disastrous dealings, which is within a short taxi ride off Wall Street, my instructions would be unyielding. I must place Wall Street thousands of miles away from me. Every day my brokers must send me a telegram with option market investing information just as if I were in Hong Kong, Karachi or Stockholm.

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Comcast expands system upgrade (Investing)

Comcast expands system upgrade
San Francisco Gate - AT&T is investing $1 billion in California alone to deliver the future of communications and entertainment services,” said AT&T spokesman Ted Carr. “Our competitors are investing in a platform of the past.” Comcast’s upgrade will also add more

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When To Buy Into The Best Future Market Tips (Wall Street)

When To Buy Into The Best Future Market Tips
I did not know then that they were the manufacturers of a particular brand of filter-tip cigarettes and the filter-tip craze was about to sweep America, causing their production to leap up astronomically. Out in Saigon, all I knew was that LORILLARD began to emerge from the swamp of sinking future market tips like a beacon. In spite of the bad market, it rose from 17 until, in the first week of October, it established itself in the narrow box 24/27. Its volume for that week was 126,700 shares, which sharply contrasted with its usual 10,000 shares earlier in the year.

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Your Funds: Dearly beloved, we (sort of) mourn these funds  (Investment Pioneer)

Your Funds: Dearly beloved, we (sort of) mourn these funds 
Some 900-plus funds were liquidated or merged out of existence in 2006, down about 25 percent from 2005 and the lowest extinction level in several years. While no one truly mourns a lost fund, investors…

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My First Two Million In The New York Commodity Market (Investment)

My First Two Million In The New York Commodity Market
I sat in the Plaza every evening, reading my new york commodity market telegram and filing it. Like him, I was now on the sidelines just keeping vigil while my new york commodity market commoditys continued to climb steadily like well-made missiles.

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A Few Losses Is Completely Normal When Trading In The Future Markets (Mutual Funds)

A Few Losses Is Completely Normal When Trading In The Future Markets
When I did invest $100 I almost always lost $20 or $30 at once in the future markets. But a few stocks did go up and I was comparatively happy. Even when I had to go to New York I continued to telephone my future markets orders to brokers in Toronto. I did that because I did not even know you could transact Canadian future markets business through a New York broker. The Toronto brokers would telephone tips and I always bought the future they or the Canadian financial advisory services suggested. Like all small hit-and-miss operators, I put down my losses to bad luck. I knew - I was certain - that one day I would have good luck. I was not wrong all the time - in some ways it would have been better if I had been. Once in a while I made a few dollars in the future markets. It was always a complete accident.

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Gurus have mixed views for 2007  (Mutual Funds)

Gurus have mixed views for 2007 
Stock investors probably hope 2007 will be a carbon copy of 2006. The Dow is at a new high. The U.S. stock market is sporting gains of nearly 15%. And portfolio balances are ballooning.

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A Few Losses Is Completely Normal When Trading In The Future Markets (Wall Street)

A Few Losses Is Completely Normal When Trading In The Future Markets
When I did invest $100 I almost always lost $20 or $30 at once in the future markets. But a few stocks did go up and I was comparatively happy. Even when I had to go to New York I continued to telephone my future markets orders to brokers in Toronto. I did that because I did not even know you could transact Canadian future markets business through a New York broker. The Toronto brokers would telephone tips and I always bought the future they or the Canadian financial advisory services suggested. Like all small hit-and-miss operators, I put down my losses to bad luck. I knew - I was certain - that one day I would have good luck. I was not wrong all the time - in some ways it would have been better if I had been. Once in a while I made a few dollars in the future markets. It was always a complete accident.

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Sector Snap: Steel Sector Mixed (Wall Street)

Sector Snap: Steel Sector Mixed
MSN MoneyCentral - NEW YORK (AP) - Steel sector shares were mixed Monday as analysts forecast a weaker fourth-quarter performance for the industry due to softer steel prices. UBS analyst Timna Tanners cautioned clients investing in the steel sector, saying she expects

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