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    • Can You Beat the Market? It’s a $100 Billion Question

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      INVESTORS collectively spend around $100 billion a year trying to beat the stock market. That’s the finding of a rigorous effort to measure the total costs of Americans’ efforts to surpass the returns they would have received by simply holding a stock index fund. The huge price tag helps explain why beating a buy-and-hold strategy is so difficult.

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      Stocks Plunge on Service Sector Weakness

      Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post

      Wall Street plunged Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrials down 370 points after investors saw an unexpected contraction in the service sector as evidence the economy is sinking into recession. It was the Dow's biggest percentage drop in almost a year.

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    • Markets for sin and virtue

      Posted by SoxFirst

      What delivers better returns? Socially responsible investments or sin stocks focusing on alchohol, defence industries, smoking and gambling? Preliminary analysis suggests sin stocks are better because they're defensive but nobody's sure. Which means this debate will continue to rage for some time

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      The bear turns global

      Posted by SoxFirst

      The fallout from the US mortgage mess continues to hurt the US market and beyond. Clearly, issues once specific to the US are now flowing through to other markets as banks force borrowers to sell assets and investors scramble away from risk. And it will get worse.

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    “The Angryindian” is an internationally recognized Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.

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