Filed under: Major movement , International markets , Deals , Market matters , Money and Finance Today , Commodities Here’s a shocker! India’s central bank just bought 200 tons of gold! Do you know why India bought the gold? India’s finance minister said the reason for the purchase was that the economies of Europe and the US had “collapsed.” India swapped $6.7 billion dollars for gold equivalent to 8% of world annual mine production

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Wow! Why is gold trading at record levels?

Filed under: Earnings reports While the debate over health care reform rages on, hospital operator Tenet Healthcare Corp. (NYSE: THC ) said Tuesday it swung to a loss in the third quarter, one day after health insurer Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM ) posted a 65% jump in its third-quarter profit

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Tenet Healthcare swings to a Q3 loss; Humana profit jumps 65%

Filed under: Competitive strategy , Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) Dell, Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL ) recently fell as the world’s second-largest PC maker, and if Taiwan’s Acer has any fire left, it will be directed at the numero uno in global PC sales, Hewlett-Packard Corp

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Watch out HP: Acer wants the top spot in notebook PC sales

Filed under: Forecasts , Federal Reserve , Financial Crisis One modest ray of light on the fiscal front for the United States: the U.S. Treasury, as expected, announced that total borrowing for the current quarter (October quarter) will be 43% lower, as a result of a reduction in money needed to help the U.S. Federal Reserve manage its balance sheet.

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Ray of light: U.S. Treasury cuts October quarter borrowing estimate

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Filed under: Earnings reports , General Electric (GE) , Time Warner (TWX) , Walt Disney (DIS) , Viacom (VIA) , Sony Corp ADR (SNE) , News Corp’B’ (NWS) , Hasbro Inc (HAS) , Media World Viacom (NYSE: VIA ), a content player in competition with News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS ), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX ), Sony (NYSE: SNE ), and General Electric ’s (NYSE: GE ) NBC Universal, issued Q3 numbers today. If we had a different market on our hands, I think the stock would have reacted better to the news

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Viacom does well in Q3, but there is still work to be done

Filed under: Exxon Mobil (XOM) , Oil Climate change isn’t going to be free. A report by Point Carbon , an independent consulting company that tracks global carbon and energy markets, estimates that U.S. climate legislation could push the price at the pump 13 cents a gallon higher

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Climate change law could cost 13 cents a gallon