Wednesday, 23 May 2012
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Astrodome fades, crumbles as Houston decides fate

23.05.2012 8:15   0 views  0 comments
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Once touted as the Eighth Wonder of the World, the Astrodome sits quietly gathering dust and items for storage Monday, May 21, 2012, in Houston. The domed stadium was home to the Houston Oilers, Astros and Stock Show and Rodeo along with playing host to the NBA Finals, professional boxing, tennis extravaganzas and numerous high school football playoff games. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)The Astrodome was once the envy of other cities, a fully air conditioned facility with a translucent roof that kept out the heat and humidity, gave synthetic grass its name, made Houston a sports entertainment destination and sparked the imaginations of baseball lovers, concert-goers and some of the country's most creative minds.


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Barclays to sell BlackRock stake at a discount

23.05.2012 1:11   0 views  0 comments
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(Reuters) - British bank Barclays will sell its nearly 20 percent stake in BlackRock at a discount, sending the U.S. asset manager's shares down 2 percent after the bell. Barclays will sell 26.2 million BlackRock shares at $160.00 per share, a 2 percent discount from its Tuesday closing price of $163.37 on the New York Stock Exchange. BlackRock will buy back 6.4 million shares for $1 billion, the company said in a statement. If underwriters exercise the option to buy an additional 2. ... Czytaj więcej »

Why Facebook still doesn't look cheap

22.05.2012 23:20   0 views  0 comments
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FILE - In this May 18, 2012 file photo provided by Facebook, Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, rings the Nasdaq opening bell from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Robert Greifeld, second from right, CEO of the Nasdaq-OMX Stock Market, Inc., said Sunday, May 20, the stock exchange is "humbly embarrassed" by its bungling of Facebook's debut. Facebook's stock was expected to start trading at 11 a.m. Friday, but didn't open until 11:32 a.m., and some investors didn't learn for hours whether their orders went through. (AP Photo/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla, File)If you were thinking of picking up a few shares of Facebook last week, when it went public at a price of $38, you might be seriously tempted now that the stock has fallen $7 in two days.


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Stocks end mixed after Greek worries resurface

22.05.2012 22:12   0 views  0 comments
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In a photo made May 7, 2012, trader John Vaccarine, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Wall Street was headed for a slightly lower open on Tuesday May 22, 2012, with Dow Jones industrial futures marginally down. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Just how nervous are investors about Greece? All it took to derail a day of stock market gains was a headline saying that Greece was preparing to leave the euro, an outcome most analysts had already expected.


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Wall Street ends flat after late volatility

22.05.2012 21:42   0 views  0 comments
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks closed mostly flat on Tuesday after volatility late in the session, with weakness in materials and energy shares offsetting strength in financials. Shares traded higher for much of the session on the back of an unexpectedly strong read on existing home sales, which lifted banks. But those gains dissipated in the last half hour of trading, with Wall Street briefly turning solidly negative before staging a rebound. ...


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