Investing: How to recognize a bubble - before it bursts

Asset bubbles, like artistic geniuses, have a reputation for going unrecognized in their lifetimes. That does not deter Ajay Kapur, Citigroup's chief global equity strategist, from trying to identify markets around the world that may be experiencing...

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Insider: A hedge fund revolution? A prominent hedge fund manager is causing ripples within the industry for using a pay structure based on the idea of delayed gratification.

Among the certain unalienable rights of finance in 2006 is that of successful hedge fund managers to make a lot of money. That right is embedded in the compensation structure of the funds: Most managers receive 2 percent of the assets they manage as...

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Hedge funds pose a risk, but less alarming, says Federal Reserve Bank of New York

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Wednesday that the risk hedge funds pose to the global financial system has reached levels by some measures comparable to those just before the Long Term Capital Management fund imploded in 1998. But the...

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Where the Next Big Bets Lie for Venture Capitalists

The venture capital sector is finally bouncing back from its post-bubble blues, although it's still a long way from the euphoria of the late 1990s. Blockbuster deals -- like YouTube's recent sale to Google for $1.65 billion and Skype's sale last...

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China expects trade surplus of $168 billion for 2006

The Chinese trade surplus will swell by 65 percent to a record $168 billion this year, the Chinese customs bureau said Thursday, less than a week before the U.S. Treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, travels to Beijing to discuss ways to reduce the...

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How To Beat The Stock Market: Buy Companies With High Customer Satisfaction Scores

A study in the Journal of Marketing concludes that you can beat the market consistently by buying stock in companies with high customer satisfaction ratings: Using a back-tested paper portfolio and an actual case, the authors of a study published in...

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Bank of America/MBNA first the merger, now the song

Here's a clip of two Bank of America executives -- one on the guitar, the other doing his best Bono impression at the microphone -- celebrating the coming together of two great institutions into one great bank. It's quite shocking, particularly...

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