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Apple Wins Battle Against Samsung In Patent War

In Germany, Mannheim Regional Court judge Andreas Voss has ruled against Samsung and in favor of Apple in a patent infringement complaint. This ruling is the first one of Samsung's seven patent claims in Germany against Apple.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/01/20/apple-wins-battle-against-samsung-in-patent-war/

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16 Expert Observations That Will Have You Rethinking Your Investment Strategy (MS)


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We thought we had it all figured out before this week started.

We were wrong.

The top minds in the investment business offered some novel analysis, broke conventional wisdom, and even opened our eyes to some misperceptions.

This particular week, we learned there may be a simple explanation for the market rally, falling natural gas prices might have little to do with oversupply, analysts have no idea what is happening with treasuries, and the ECRI and Conference Board's leading indexes may be converging .

What follows are excerpts from such stories this week.  All of the important stuff you might have missed this week, right here.

The Conference Board is changing its Leading Economic Indicators, and things are looking worse than we thought

"...In a December 2011 abstract from the Conference Board: 'Following an extensive reevaluation of existing indicators included in the Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the United States, we propose a comprehensive revision of the composite index.'...

...The new LEI has not only NOT achieved a new high in the post recessionary cycle but has also recently turned down recently showing some potential for economic weakness ahead..."

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Ironically, the ECRI leading index's call for a recession just got a little weaker

"...The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) growth indicator of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) posted -7.5 in its latest reading, data through January 13. The latest public data point is a reduced contraction from last week's -8.6, and the underlying WLI rose from an adjusted 121.1 to 123.4 (see the third chart below).

The growth index had slipped lower over the past two weeks, but the latest data point is the highest (i.e., least negative) since early September..."

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You CAN make money using Wall Street research

"...Two key findings: First, analyst recommendations are like dairy products in that it is best to use them quickly or not at all. Shares tend to drift in the direction of recommendation changes, but for weeks or months, not years. Second, 'sells' tend to be far more prescient than 'buys.' "

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THE TRUTH ABOUT SOUTH CAROLINA: Newt Has This Locked Up


newt gingrich south carolinaCHARLESTON, S.C. — With just hours to go before the polls open in South Carolina, it looks like Newt Gingrich has the 'First In South' primary in the bag.

The most recent South Carolina polls put Gingrich in the lead here with about 30% of the vote, pulling ahead of frontrunner Mitt Romney by as much as six points. Ron Paul follows in third place, with Rick Santorum rounding out the field in fourth.

It's a surprising feat for a rollercoaster campaign that has been teetering on the verge of collapse almost since it began. Gingrich managed to come back from the political grave in December, but after stumbling out of New Hampshire with a fifth-place finish, it looked like he would be the next to go.

But somehow, the former House Speaker launched a resilient offense that has totally knocked Mitt Romney off his post. If he can pull off the 5-12 win that some are predicting, he will have effectively quashed the narrative of inevitability that Romney and most of the news media have been projecting for the past year.

Winning obviously agrees with Gingrich. A new Newt has emerged in the last 48 hours — he practically skipped on stage at a campaign barbeque with South Carolina sportsmen, and gushed for several minutes about his love for wild animals (in case you didn't know, Gingrich loves zoos.)

After his smackdown of John King tonight, Gingrich has been projecting an air of confidence and gravitas that he has rarely shown this election cycle. Addressing a huge crowd of supporters on the deck of an aircraft carrier, he almost started to look presidential.

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The Secret to Saving Money

In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has. ?Proverbs 21:20

Saving money is not a matter of math.

You will not save money when you get that next raise.

You will not save money when that car is paid off.

You will not save money when the kids are grown.

You will only save money when it becomes an emotional priority.

We all know we need to save, but most people don't save like they know they need to save. Why? Because they have competing goals. The goal to save isn't a high enough priority to delay that purchase of the pizza, DVD player, new computer, or china cabinet. So we purchase, buy, consume all our dollars away or, worse yet, go into debt to buy these things. That debt means monthly payments that control our paychecks and make us say things like, "We just don't make enough to save any money!" Wrong, wrong, wrong! We do make enough to save money; we just aren't willing to quit spoiling ourselves with our little projects or pleasures to have enough left to save. It doesn't matter what you make?you can save money. It just has to become a big enough priority to you.

If a doctor told you that your child was dying and could only be saved with a $15,000 operation that your insurance would not cover and could only be performed nine months from today, could you save $15,000? Yes! Of course you could! You would sell things, you would stop any spending that wasn't required to survive, and you would take two extra jobs. For that short nine months, you would become a saving madman. You would give up virtually anything to accomplish that $15,000 goal. Saving would become a priority.

The secret to saving money is to make it a priority, and that is done only when you get some healthy anger or fear and then focus that emotion on your personal decisions. Harnessing that emotion will make you move yourself to the top of your creditor list. Then ask yourself Which bill is the most important? After tithing, who should I pay first this month? The answer is you! Until you pay God first, then yourself, then everyone and everything else, you will never save money.

The advertisers and marketing community are affecting our emotions every day and taking every dollar we have by making us see our wants as needs. It is time for this to stop! Emotions make great slaves, but they are lousy masters. No matter how educated or sophisticated we are, if we are not saving all we should be, we are being ruled by emotions, not harnessing them as financial planning slaves.

So whether you are saving for college tuition, a trip to the family reunion, new school clothes for little Bobby or Sally, or anything else, start saving now! It's never too late!

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Why the Dow Surged This Week

For the third straight week, the market is up. The Dow (INDEX: ^DJI  ) rose 2.4% while the broader S&P 500 (INDEX: ^GSPC  ) and Nasdaq (INDEX: ^IXIC  ) rose 2.0% and 2.8%.

And now that earnings season is in full swing, we can point to actual company actions for driving the stock market rather than vague musings on Europe, unemployment, or "the January Effect."

All 30 stocks in the Dow were up this week, but tech and banking dominated. The top seven gainers were in those two sectors:

Of these, Bank of America, IBM, Microsoft, and Intel all reported this week ? on Thursday, to be precise. Click on the links to get the rundowns.

In banking, generally favorable reports from Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley  gave hope to a beaten-down sector. Keep in mind that these reports weren't especially strong on an absolute basis. Rather, any decent news in banking sends shares skyward because expectations are so low. Nowhere is this more true than Bank of America. Hence its Dow-leading position this week.

Meanwhile, in tech, the company-specific good news at IBM, Microsoft, and Intel drowned out the market's poor reaction to non-Dow techie Google's earnings (Google was down 6.2% this week). We see that in Hewlett-Packard, whose business model is more tied to the fates of IBM, Microsoft, and Intel than it is to Google. 

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Bears Bet Medivation Loses Levitation, Bulls Find Fertile Upside In Mosaic

Bullish movement in shares of Mosaic may continue next week, according to buyers of weekly call options on the producer of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients. Mosaic's shares rallied more than 2.4% to $55.15 in the first half of the session on positive comments regarding the industry from analysts at Bank of America.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/01/20/bears-bet-medivation-loses-levitation-bulls-find-fertile-upside-in-mosaic/

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