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Goldman Sachs & Co, Allen & Co LLC and Morgan Stanley are underwriting the IPO, Brooklyn, New York-based Etsy told the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission in a preliminary prospectus. The company said it intended to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “ETSY”. Etsy, which was founded in 2005, employs 685 people and has 29 million items listed on its website. Etsy said it intended to raise up to $100 million from the IPO, but the filing did not reveal how many shares the company planned to sell or their expected price.

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group suffered a security breach that exposed customer’s credit card data, according to a new report.

Darling’s DGD joint venture propelled a massive fourth-quarter beat. Here’s everything investors need to know.

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Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via First Rebuttal blog,

Well I found it incredibly sad yesterday watching our legislators in our own house of Congress give the foreign leader of a beggar nation (to the tune of $4 billion per annum) a standing ovation like he had just solved all of America’s problems.  But the fact is Netanyahu came to give a speech that was in direct conflict with that of the American president.

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Nobody should invest in bond exchange traded funds without understanding that when interest rates increase, the bond’s price declines. With significant improvements in the economy and unemployment rate, the Federal Reserve is expected to raise rates before 2015 ends. This will affect securities across the entire bond market. So, what is a bond ETF investor to do?

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China lowered its economic growth forecast to about 7% this year at the opening of the country’s biggest political event of the year, ushering in what leaders have dubbed a “new normal” of slower growth in the world’s second largest economy.
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Simon Property Group has made takeover approaches for rival Macerich, seeking to combine two of the largest shopping-mall owners in the U.S.
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