Nikkei Shoots to Fresh Highs; US Rally Supports
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Retailers reported earnings this week and analysts were out discussing Wal-Mart, Target and Home Depot, among others. Find out more in this CNBC.com StockBlog Roundup.
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Retail investors have been sitting on the sidelines as they await some kind of resolution to the country’s fiscal problems, but it won’t take much to get them back into the market, TD Ameritrade CEO Fred Tomczyk, told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Friday.
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Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist blasted Alan Simpson, saying the former Republican senator's call for tax increases to help solve the fiscal crisis amounted to "ranting."
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Virgin America is taking fewer deliveries of new planes as the economy continues to grow slowly, and fuel prices remain high, CEO David Cush told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday.
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Politicians "worship that great god of reelection and haven't been focused on what's really right for the country," Erskine Bowles, one of the architects of the Simpson-Bowles deficit-reduction plan, told CNBC Thursday.
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President Obama's proposal to extend the middle-class tax cuts before reforming the tax code and entitlements is a "sucker's game," billionaire investor Wilbur Ross told CNBC Thursday.
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Times of uncertainty are the best times to find investment opportunities, George Roberts, co-CEO of private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Wednesday.
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Hedge funds are reporting their quarterly holdings to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Find out what the big funds have been buying and selling.
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Despite all this talk about the “fiscal cliff,” investors aren’t really trading stocks as if they’re petrified of it, Citigroup U.S. equity strategist Tobias Levkovich told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Tuesday.
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Nokia is aiming to be a bigger player in mobile mapping services with a new cloud-based service, the company’s CEO, Stephen Elop, told CNBC’s "Street Signs."