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Hello friends Some of the canniest Wall Street advisers live far from Wall Street. Contrarian Marc Faber writes The Gloom Boom & Doom Report from Hong Kong; Bob Prechter tracks market gyrations (his so-called Elliott Waves) in the Georgia foothills; chart watcher Jim Stack keeps readers of his...

Hello friends Dissolving a Business - A corporation or other business entity may cease operations for many reasons and in a number of ways. When a business is terminated or its legal status changes, there are licensing and regulation requirements which must be met. There are also opportunities...

Hello friends Are you concerned about global warming? Does it concern you when you think about all the damage pollution can do to our environment? We can all play a part in keeping our environment green and healthy. Recycling is one of the biggest projects we have taken upon ourselves in...

Hello friends Advantage and disadvantage of email marketing Email advertising comes with both advantages and disadvantages. The advantages for email marketing are far attracting then the repulsion of it disadvantages. Among the advantages of email marketing the most attractive is it being...

Hello friends Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Northern California was rocked by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake about 27 miles (43 kilometers) offshore from Eureka. The earthquake occurred at a depth of about 10 miles at 4:27 p.m. local time, the USGS said. A second temblor of 4.5 magnitude struck at 6:21...

Hello friends Residents oppose the move and simply want Futenma shut down. Hatoyama has delayed making a final decision and said he's willing to consider other options for the base. The leader of a junior coalition partner has said she wants the base moved off Japanese territory altogether. In...

Hello friends Karzai had ordered Parliament to cancel its winter recess so it could consider the new list of ministers and end a political vacuum at the heart of government ahead of a conference on Afghanistan later this month. President Barack Obama decided in December to send a further...

Hello friends Announcements don’t get much more dramatic than the one NBC made today about yanking The Jay Leno show from its 10 o’clock time period just three months after the former host of The Tonight Show began his one-hour comedy, skit show. Yes, NBC TV honcho Jeff Gaspin told an...

Hello friends Qualcomm QCOM was the chipmaker of choice for some of the highest-profile tech gadgets unveiled the week of the Consumer Electronics Showâ??in Las Vegas and elsewhere. Not only do Qualcomm chips run the Google GOOG Nexus One smartphone introduced in Mountain View, Calif., on Jan...

Hello friends The Australian state of Victoria activated its Code Red fire warning, the highest level, for the first time today as South Australia yesterday issued a statewide “catastrophic” fire danger warning after temperatures soared above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). The...

Hello friends Accenture Plc, which recently saw its Tiger Woods-centered advertising campaign turn to dust overnight, was analysts’ favorite stock in 2002. Sixteen analysts urged investors to buy the stock; not one said to hold or sell. How did Accenture do? Shares fell 33 percent that year...

Hello friends In conjunction with the announcement of an $8.7 billion loss for the second quarter, Ford confirmed what had been suspected for some time with a major shift in production capacity from trucks to cars. Starting in December of this year, three truck plants will be retooled so that...

Hello friends The new Nexus One smartphone from Google Inc. comes close to warranting the mass hysteria that attended its unveiling last week. The Nexus One isn’t revolutionary. Nor is it an iPhone killer -- a phrase we should banish to the Tech Writers’ Hall of Cliches. It is, instead, a...

Hello friends To all the fresh-faced dollar bulls out there, following your favorite doomsaying long-dollar gurus, watch out for this. China is set, yet again, to start trading dollars for hard assets en masse. This is despite claims that the country already has too much in the way of hard...

Hello friends Although corporate profits in the fourth quarter will likely be dramatically better than a year ago, CEOs aren't pounding their chests yet. Most chief executives acknowledge that the fourth quarter brought higher sales but remain reluctant to provide guidance that looks much...