Filed under: International markets New York Times (NYSE: NYT ) columnist Paul Krugman, who has previously expressed concern about governments withdrawing fiscal and/or monetary stimulus too quickly, resulting in a stall of the just-started recovery, Monday provided more reason to stay-the-course. Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner, did say in Helsinki Monday that the global recession has probably bottomed but the recovery will be “slow and painful,” Bloomberg News reported. Continue reading Krugman sees slow, painful global recovery on trade woes Krugman sees slow, painful global recovery on trade woes originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:30:00 EST

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Krugman sees slow, painful global recovery on trade woes

Filed under: Forecasts , Microsoft (MSFT) , Viacom (VIA) , Sony Corp ADR (SNE) , Electronic Arts (ERTS) , Activision Inc (ATVI) , Technology Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI ) remains confident in its guidance for full-year earnings. According to StreetInsider.com , management is still looking for sales of $4.5 billion on the top line and adjusted earnings of 63 cents per share on the bottom line. The publisher, which competes with Electronic Arts Inc.

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Activision Blizzard still looking good?

Filed under: Earnings reports , Forecasts , Products and services , Competitive strategy , Carnival Corp (CCL) Before the market opens tomorrow morning, Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL ) will be reporting its fiscal third quarter earnings results.

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Carnival Corporation third quarter earnings preview

Filed under: CIGNA Corp (CI) , Stocks to Buy A late-May conclusion arguing that institutional investors had started to re-commit to Cigna Corp., due to its constructive, staircase chart, virtually no breaches of the 50-day moving average, and adequate earnings outlook, has so far proved to be on-the-mark. Hence, I’m reiterating my Buy rating for Cigna Corp.

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Cigna: A positive signal-filled chart

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Filed under: Major movement , International markets , Good news , Market matters , Money and Finance Today , Economic data , Federal Reserve Why is China loading up on US Treasuries? At first glance that seems strange because the dollar keeps falling. Doesn’t a falling dollar mean that inflation is on the way?

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Why is China loading up on US Treasuries?

Filed under: Stocks to Buy The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. (NYSE: SMG ) is literally and figuratively growing when others aren’t. In August, the company announced superior Q3 results of a 9% increase in revenue to $1.28 billion , driven by strong consumer-based sales in almost every lawn and garden category.

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It was a good summer for Scotts Miracle-Gro

The U.S. dollar gained ground Monday as investors shied away from risk-oriented trades ahead of this week’s meeting of U.S. Federal Reserve policy makers and a summit of the leaders of the Group of 20 global economic powers.

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Currencies: Dollar rises ahead of Fed meeting, G20

Dell Inc. said Monday it is buying IT group Perot Systems Corp

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Lennar Corp. on Monday said its fiscal third-quarter loss nearly doubled as sales volumes and prices declined though the home builder hopes to return to profit next year.

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Lennar loss nearly doubles as volumes, prices fall

Asian stock markets ended mixed Monday amid holiday-related market closures in a number of countries in the region.

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Shanghai gains on IPO, miners retreat in Sydney