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Despite recent concerns, a review of publicly-traded companies in the bubbliest tech segment, Internet cloud services, found all had at least two years of cash left.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Monday will meet bondholder and billionaire financier George Soros, whose portfolio includes a 3.5 percent stake in Argentina’s state-controlled energy. Argentina has frequently cited the Hungarian-born magnate’s investments in the country as a signal of investor confidence in the $490 billion economy.

The missing chief executive of embattled German-listed Chinese shoe maker Ultrasonic AG has resurfaced in China to deny absconding with millions of dollars of company money, telling local media he had been traveling and lost his phone.

The National Association of Realtors said on Monday existing home sales dropped 1.8 percent to an annual rate of 5.05 million units. The decline followed four straight months of gains and the sales pace was still the second highest for the year. “We continue to expect the housing recovery to be sustained, and we look for the pace of sales activity to pick-up in the coming months” said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

Stocks fall across the globe amid growth fears. Commodities and emerging markets lag.

Did someone finally inform the SEC that Bernie Madoff’s business model has been adopted by every central bank in the “developed world?” Whatever the reason for today’s record SEC award, which almost certainly has to do with HFT, a topic which this blog first brought to light back in 2009 when nobody had a clue what algo/high frequency trading is, congratulations to the lucky winner (unless of course it has to do with someone spilling the beans on US tax evaders in Swiss banks), and our condolences to the banks, because now that one can comfortably retire by informing the regulators of the p

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The crowd is waking up to Apple’s strike back against Android, but there are other angles to the story investors are missing.