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Written By: Jacquelyn Ryan on March 11, 2010 No Comment
Investments Down Under are looking up

Jacquelyn Ryan/MEDILL

If you’re feeling unsure about the U.S. stock market, try looking Down Under.

Written By: Max Frumes on February 12, 2010 No Comment
Regulation, crisis and the PE/VC conversation

Present-day and next-generation investment industry leaders debated future of funds at the Kellogg School of Management’s private equity and venture capital conference in Chicago, with the conversation returning to value creation.

Written By: Jeniece Pettitt on February 12, 2010 No Comment
DeVry strengthens during recession

The high unemployment rate has actually benefited one industry– private-sector education. For-profit education has seen an increase in enrollments across the board and Chicago-based DeVry Inc. is no exception. It has seen a boost in enrollment numbers that has generated extra cash to continue to invest in the company, making it appealing to investors.

Written By: Michael Beller on February 11, 2010 No Comment
Olympics provide golden advertising opportunity, new study shows

BY MICHAEL BELLER – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The Olympic torch arrives in Vancouver Friday, where thousands of athletes from around the world want to strike gold.  Companies looking to do the same should be right there alongside the athletes, as a new study found the Olympics could be the perfect venue to spend advertising [...]

Written By: bcm141 on May 28, 2009 No Comment
In Belgium, beer offers tempting prospect for investors

www.ab-invbev.com

BY BRIDGET MACDONALD - MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Not only does Belgium boast over 450 varieties of beer – each served in a specific glass designed to showcase its flavor – it is home to the largest brewer in the world.

Budweiser calls itself the king of beer, but parent company [...]

Written By: cgo231 on August 7, 2008 No Comment
Nobody loses $695M like Sara Lee

BY CONOR O’TOOLE, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Sara Lee Corp., a Downers Grove, Ill.-based food company, suffered a loss for the fourth quarter Thursday due to goodwill write-downs at [...]

Written By: bmiraski on July 31, 2008 No Comment
-$9,223,372,036,854.78

BY BENJAMIN MIRASKI, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

I owned 20 shares of XM Satellite Radio and let’s just say that 20 shares of XM Satellite Radio did not make me a millionaire.

Instead, I apparently owe trillions of dollars to… someone, enough to cover the debts of XM, its merger with Sirius Satellite Radio, and [...]

Written By: Administrator on May 30, 2008 No Comment

Don’t play with your food: Are hedge funds to blame for rising food prices?
By Frank Carlson 
May 29, 2008

How would you like to earn a million dollars today, just to have it disappear tomorrow?  Worse, how would you like it if this happened every day?
That’s exactly what grain elevators are experiencing as record commodity prices [...]

Written By: Archi Sarkar on May 28, 2008 No Comment

BY ARCHI SARKAR -MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

No matter what the economists reckon or how the GDP looks like, everyone knows that the economy has taken a beating and apparel retail sales are hurting the most.

Even Big Daddy is calling for help!

Sears Holdings Corp. has roped in Hip-Hop [...]

Written By: Patrick Temple-West on May 7, 2008 No Comment

BY PATRICK TEMPLE-WEST – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

In light of Bear Stearns investigation of short selling, is such an investigation required by shareholders?

CME cannot respond directly to specific questions like that, Donohue said. We would refer that to the proper authorities, but as a matter of policy, we do not comment on that.

Should the [...]

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