The S&P jumped around 26% in 2013 with major indexes hitting record high, but investors are wary of the surge in US stocks, citing a potential big drop on the market the following year.
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Norway wealth fund, Och-Ziff among investors in Cinda IPO-sources
A group of 10 investors, including Norway's sovereign wealth fund and Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, have together committed to buy about $1.1 billion into China Cinda Asset Management Corp as part of its Hong Kong IPO, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday
Insurance can now bypass Obamacare website whilst tech firms are still waiting
The federal government is optimistic that it can get enough people to purchase health insurance. It is also testing an option whereby consumers can directly purchase insurance aside from going to the state websites since it is still malfunctioning.
New peer to peer lending platform, Daric goes live next week
Daric, a new peer to peer lending platform will go live on Nov 27th, 2013 barring any unforseen regulatory issues. The platform differentiates itself by focusing on user experience and less hassle without borrowers needing to upload any files in the application side.
App formerly known as Bang With Friends, Relaunches on the iPhone as ‘Down’
Former Bang with Friends app is rebranded and relaunched as Down after a trademark dispute with Zynga. They have also launched on Android and has re-adjusted their approach instead of just hookups.
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The Department of Energy will lose about USD139 million on a loan given to Fisker Automotive under a clean vehicles program after the automaker sold part of the loan to Hybrid Technology.
European Central Bank (ECB) Executive board member Benoit Coeure said the ECB plans to maintain its low interest rates or may cut them further because of low inflation.
PSA Peugeot Citroen is preparing to replace its present Chief Executive Officer Philippe Varin for a joint venture with Chinese partner Dongfeng, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The shutdown of Russian bank Master Bank was the central bank's most high-profile move yet under the leadership of Russia's first female governor Elvira Nabiullina.
The fund formerly known as Genesis Angels supported startups like Sirim, StoreDot Ltd and other chosen, early-stage startups in Israel via a combined investment of USD34.5 million.
Wal-Mart's online business had reduced the minimum amount of shopping orders online for Cyber Monday from USD50 to USD35, which is just about the same figure of minimum number of shopping orders at Amazon.
A Saturday announcement revealed that Pfizer Ltd, Pfizer Inc's Indian unit, would be merging with its local affiliate Wyeth Ltd after both pharmaceutical firms' boards approved the deal.
A revelation from Semantria founder Oleg Rogynskyy disclosed that the partnership of the sentiment and text analytics services provider and Web scraping API developer Diffbot was born at a hackathon in San Francisco.
TransUnion securing the approval from the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida to acquire TLO LLC would mark the end of the court-supervised acquisition.
