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...While the moneyed classes have been drawn to movie investing since the days of Howard Hughes, hedge funds and private equity firms are a new breed....
...“It sounds perverse, but Katrina is going to be a boon for the economy,” said Bob Howard, who writes the Positive Patterns newsletter....
...“We were predicting a 7.8 per cent rise in earnings for S&P 500 companies this quarter, meaning it would end the record streak of 12 successive quarters of double-digit gains,” said Howard Silverblatt, strategist...
...“The divergence between tech and non-tech over the past five years has been enormous,” says Standard & Poor’s analyst Howard Silverblatt....
...They are also likely to heighten pressure on Fannie Mae's top officials, including Franklin Raines, chief executive, and Timothy Howard, chief financial officer....
...Elsewhere, Sirius Satellite climbed 3.3 per cent to $4.00 as investors warmed to the news that radio star Howard Stern would broadcast for the satellite radio company....
...Another winner was Sirius Satellite Radio,which announced a $500m deal to have Howard Stern join its air waves. The stock eased 7.5 per cent to $3.70 on Friday, gaining 17 per cent for the week....
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