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Markets await Bernanke as central bankers gather
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke tackles financial stability in a key speech on
Friday but economists doubt he will provide solid clues about
future policy action to calm the credit crunch.
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Fannie and Freddie debt gains, deep share dive abates
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Investors' growing belief in the
likelihood of a federal bailout of home-funding giants Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac triggered a rally in the
debt prices of the two companies on Thursday while a steep fall
in their shares prices abated.
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Oil up 5 percent on global tensions, soft dollar
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oil prices rose nearly 5 percent on
Thursday, the biggest percentage gain in more than two months,
driven by rising tensions between the United States and energy
behemoth Russia.
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Three big banks settle with NY state over ARS
(Reuters)
Reuters - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo
on Thursday said Merrill Lynch & Co Inc , Deutsche Bank
(DBKGn.DE) and Goldman Sachs have agreed to settlements
regarding their auction rate security sales practices.
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FINRA probes 40 firms on auction rate securities: source
(Reuters)
Reuters - Financial industry enforcement agents
will review the auction-rate debt operations of about 40 firms
industrywide starting next week, sources familiar with the
investigation said on Thursday.
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Trends & Innovations - Wednesday
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The proportion of working-age Americans facing medical debt rose to 72 mil or 41% last year, up from 58 mil or 34% in '05, according to a new survey by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund. About half of those facing health debt have up to $2,000 in bills, while 12% have more than $4,000 in debt and another 12% have more than $8,000. The survey also found most of those with medical debt said they had exhausted their savings, with some also tapping into credit cards, home equity or cutting back on food or heat to cover health care costs.
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ESBPDF Analysis - Probability Software 2.4 |
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ESBPDF Analysis is Probability Analysis Software that provides everything needed for using Discrete and Continuous Probability Distributions in a single Windows application. Most Tables and supplied functions (such as in MS Excel) give P(X less than A) and using algebra other results can be found whereas ESBPDF Analysis is Probability Analysis Software th... |
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Karate Videopoker 2.0 |
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Videopoker game the Japanese design is intended to disclose for you this nuance of poker playing - poker is always a combat, your combat with the random number generator, with probability law, etc.Feel like a Japanese warrior on the path of pacifying the spontaneous impulses and gasps of emotions so that to defeat the opponent. Domesticate cards by the po... |
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NetOptima Professional 1.9.20 |
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Is your network free from pornography?
Until now, there are no viable technical solutions available for pornography blocking at the gateway. NetOptima Professional stops pornography before it enters your network. Easy to install and administer, NetOptima Professional is the right choice for any network which is connected to Internet. No software to be... |
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Statistics Pro 1.0 |
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Calculate those tedious Statistics and Discrete Mathematics formulas quickly, easily, all while learning! Combinatorics (permutations and combinations, etc), probabilities, expected values, confidence intervals, data analysis, hypothesis testing and more. Free formula guide! Try the free demo today to see how Statistics Pro will work for you and save you ... |
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4WomenOnly 5.5 |
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A system for monitoring women's health. Detect the period most
propitious for conception or preventing a pregnancy. Get detailed data
about each day of your menstrual cycle, the prediction of your child's
sex, information about your child's birth date. Supporting irregular
cycles, showing the number of days before menstruation and ovulation,
reminder... |
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Handy Recovery 4.0 |
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Handy Recovery is a data recovery software designed to restore accidentally lost files. The program supports FAT 12/16/32, NTFS and NTFS 5 + EFS file systems. It shows probability of successful recovery for each file. This tool can recover files from deleted and formatted partitions or create disk images for deferred recovery. It also features in-depth di... |
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QIP 2005 Build 8040 |
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QIP is an unique closed source computer program for immediate cross-Internet communication. The basic functionality of QIP enables its users to see who else is online and available and then easily contact them with text messages in real time sent through a public server. QIP stands for Quiet Internet Pager and it can be used to contact your friends on ICQ... |
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Portfolio Optimization 1.0 |
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The Portfolio Optimization model calculates the optimal capital weightings for a basket of financial investments that gives the highest return for the least risk.The unique design of the model enables it to be applied to either financial instrument or business portfolios. The ability to apply optimization analysis to a portfolio of businesses represents ... |
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Client Keeper 1.0.0.0 |
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Client Keeper - is the best CRM-solution for small companies such as travel companies, shops, lawyer's offices, copyrighters, roundsmen and so on.With Client Keeper you can manage your contacts and sales. Client Keeper will help you understand the preferences of each your client and increase your profits from customer contact. Due to the detailed analysis... |
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Easy Photo Recovery 1.3.1 |
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Easy Photo Recovery is a fast and easy tool to recover any deleted or unreadable photo or video file. Unique to this software is the support of all photo and video formats. In addition, it is compatible with various media storage devices, such as digital cameras, hard drives, CD/DVD disks, mobile phones and all types of flash cards. Total simplicity and h... |
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| Software News |
Microsoft enlists Seinfeld for ad campaign: source
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will star
in a $300 million marketing campaign for Microsoft Corp aimed
at burnishing the image of its computer operating system, a
person familiar with the effort said on Thursday.
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Photosynth Stitches Photos Into a 3-D Web Canvas
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft's name has never been synonymous with photography, visual imaging or innovative online applications. But its release Wednesday of Photosynth -- a hybrid software/service that allows users to create 3-D environments by stitching multiple photographs together -- suggests the company has more than a few cards up its sleeve.
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Apple tries to de-bug iPhone
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Apple acknowledged that a software update for the iPhone partly fixes the connection snags that have caused a global firestorm for the new iPhone 3G.
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Salesforce.com stock drops on cautious outlook
(AP)
AP - Salesforce.com Inc. kept its financial guidance within the range of analyst estimates Wednesday, disappointing investors who expected a more bullish forecast from one of the Internet's most popular software services.
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Microsoft Eases Server-Virtualization Restrictions
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft has elected to jettison certain licensing restrictions that previously discouraged its customers from moving the software giant's server applications within a server farm at will.
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Google Invites Security Researchers To Debug Android
(NewsFactor)
 NewsFactor - In a move that could help it avoid an iPhone 3G-like software drama, Google wants bug hunters to test its Android mobile platform. On Monday, the Android Security Team posted a message to introduce itself to the security research and vulnerability communities.
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