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January Sees 467,000 New Jobs, Stable Unemployment Rate

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Growth in employment continued in leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, retail trade, and transportation and warehousing. The number of unemployed persons, at 6.5 The number of long-term unemployed (people who have been jobless for 27 weeks or more) declined to 1.7 represented a slight increase of 0.1

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How to mitigate insolvency risk

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Cash flow and liquidity problems: Are your fixed costs or interest payments creeping up, or do you have a high number or amount of customer overdue payments? Shorten your supply chains and avoid concentration in one geographic region. Poor interest coverage ratio: This shows operating profits may not be able to cover interest expenses.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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Combined with growing advisor (and consumer) interest in comprehensive financial planning services, the number of ways advisors can add value for their clients has expanded greatly. Luckily, advisors have a large number of ways to add value to their clients’ lives (more than 101 in fact!),

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Re-Packaging Apps To Sell: What Will It Take?

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smartphone owners now download a grand total of zero apps per month, and most new app downloads are (unsurprisingly) concentrated in the millennial demographic. Google reportedly benchmarks its own malware-fighting capabilities against third-party products designed for the same purpose. More than half of U.S. Third Party.

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. So, eBay set in motion a number of things in an attempt to blunt the impact of these shifts and to bring new buyers and sellers into the mix. Speaking of online retailers, eBay went all out to court them. From the Living Room to the Basement. It was shuttered in 2014.

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Lumen Aims To Boost Weight Loss Through Metabolism Measurements

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Here’s how it works: The user measures carbon dioxide concentration by breathing into a handheld device, which resembles an oblong remote control device. And when they think about test results , it’s more likely to involve a positive or negative than a number.

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

Barry Ritholtz

How do you crunch the numbers on that, and where do you come out on small cap and value? And as the time goes by, I think the two lines get blurred also because of technology, because of the increased presence of retail investors in the markets. The hedge fund industry, generally, is outperforming their benchmarks.