Amid distrust of motives in growing global investments.

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Leaders Debate China’s Role in Economic Recovery

The new year has arrived, and so investors are inundated with all manner of lists: Best and worst stocks for 2012, forecasts of where the economy is going, favorite investments for the year and more. What’s an investor to do? You should start by ignoring those lists. Let’s conduct a little experiment to demonstrate why: Do a quick Google search for “where to invest in 2011.” I read through the first dozen or so. For the most part, the performance was pretty awful. Before the excuse-making starts — 2011 was an unusual year, the ECB/Fed intervened, etc. — let me clue you in to this fact: Forecasters are pretty awful every year. Read full article > >

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Investing in 2012: Get ahead of forecaster folly

To get a sense of how vulnerable the U.S. economy could be if the euro currency union cracks apart, start with the volume of U.S. exports to the euro zone — $153 billion in the first six months of the year. Add several hundred billion dollars in investments by U.S. banks in the euro zone and several trillion dollars’ worth of other financial contracts between the two economies. Read full article > >

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Tremors from a euro collapse would be global, with U.S. recession likely

A host of investments are being launched targeting the world’s fastest growing economies – the so-called Civets.

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Rise of the fast-growing Civets

As the company struggled to contain a scandal over payments made to cover losses on investments on Wednesday, its stock fell 20 percent in early trading.

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At Olympus, Scandal and Rising Calls for a Purge

TOKYO — Olympus hid at least two decades of losses by paying inflated fees to advisers, the company’s president said, in the first admission of wrongdoing during a four-week boardroom scandal. Company shares have lost more than 70 percent of their value since ousted CEO Michael Woodford first raised questions about a series of suspicious transactions that took place between 2006 and 2008. But Tuesday, amid a third-party investigation, Olympus ended its defense of those deals. President Shuichi Takayama said unusually high takeover fees were used to cover up huge losses on security investments from the 1990s. Read full article > >

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Olympus admits to cover-up on decades of losses

Shares in Olympus plunge 30% after it admits to using funds form past acquisitions to hide losses on securities investments.

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Olympus admits to hiding losses

NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported a third-quarter loss of $428 million Tuesday, only the second quarterly loss since the investment bank went public 12 years ago. Revenue from underwriting stocks and bonds plunged as businesses, unnerved by political wrangling in Washington and volatile markets, held off on new stock and bond offerings. Goldman also lost nearly $3 billion on investments in stocks, bonds and a stake in a Chinese bank. Read full article > >

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Rough markets slam Goldman Sachs; firm loses $428 million in third quarter

In societies governed by persuasion, politics is mostly talk, so liberals’ impoverishment of their vocabulary matters. Having damaged liberalism’s reputation, they call themselves progressives. Having made the federal government’s pretensions absurd, they have resurrected a supposed synonym for the government, the “federal family.” Having made federal spending suspect, they advocate “investments” — for “job creation,” a euphemism for stimulus, another word they have made toxic. Read full article > >

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Our floundering ‘federal family’

In societies governed by persuasion, politics is mostly talk, so liberals’ impoverishment of their vocabulary matters. Having damaged liberalism’s reputation, they call themselves progressives. Having made the federal government’s pretensions absurd, they have resurrected a supposed synonym for the government, the “federal family.” Having made federal spending suspect, they advocate “investments” — for “job creation,” a euphemism for stimulus, another word they have made toxic. Read full article > >

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President Obama is preparing to roll out a jobs program Thursday that could cost as much as $300 billion in infrastructure investments and tax cuts, but which aides said will include ways to pay for the programs that the White House hopes will win bipartisan support from skeptical Republicans. Obama, whose approval ratings are at record lows, will present his proposals before a joint session of Congress at 7 p.m. ET Thursday in an address that could mark a critical moment in his presidency. Obama aims to restore public confidence in his administration’s ability to boost the economy and prevent another recession, even as Republican rivals point to a Labor Department report that showed no new jobs created last month as evidence that his policies aren’t working. Read full article > >

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Obama jobs plan could cost $300 billion, include tax cuts, new spending

The index-linked bond – which gives savers protection against inflation – is pulled from sale by National Savings and Investments.

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NS&I pulls inflation-linked bonds

Saab Automobile and two subsidiaries filed for “voluntary reorganization” to buy time until planned investments from Chinese companies materialize.

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Saab Files for Bankruptcy Protection

Failed to disclose investments in Details piece.

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Kutcher’s Article May Be Illegal

BEIJING — Following another day of turmoil in world financial markets, Vice President Biden sought to assure China, America’s largest foreign creditor, that its investments in U.S. Treasury securities were safe. “U.S. Treasurys — we’re going to take care of very closely, not merely because China owns 8 percent of them, but because the Americans own 85 percent of them,” Biden told Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a Friday afternoon meeting at Zhongnanhai, the main leadership compound in central Beijing. Read full article > >

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