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Flushing Financial's Story Was Well Received: Analyst

FBR Capital Markets said Flushing Financial Corp.'s (NASDAQ: FFIC) story was well received by investors given that the company is growing loans, generates reasonable profitability, and its performance through the cycle is evidence of its strong credit quality.
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Assad grants citizenship to Hasaka Kurds

In another concession to unprecedented waves of protest, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has ordered a decree to grant Syrian nationality to thousands of Kurds whose citizenship has been revoked in the early 1960s in a census.

'Nonstop' Negotiations as Shutdown Looms

'Nonstop' negotiations on passing a federal budget for the remainder of the fiscal year were continuing ahead of a Friday deadline to avert a shutdown of a big portion of the government, as House Republicans and Senate Democrats allied with President Obama sought to break an impasse that could put hundreds of thousands of workers on leave without funding in place.

Glenn Beck quits Fox News

In a joint statement, the Fox network and Glenn Beck’s production company, Mercury Radio Arts, said they will work together to “develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the FOX News Channel (FNC) as well as content for other platforms.”
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Netflix gets 'Mad Men' streaming rights

Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) announced a multiyear syndication deal under which Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) has licensed the first four seasons of its Emmy Award-winning series Mad Men to be watched instantly by Netflix members starting July 27.
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The Swiss Franc, Euro and Gold

Seems you can't keep a safe haven down. Not when retained wealth worldwide needs to escape money-printing and zero rates at home. What options are left to anxious savers? What choice but the Euro is still open to the Swiss National Bank...?

COLUMN: Poverty? What, Poverty?

I have noticed that the vast majority of people protesting in the streets of these strife-torn countries in the Arab world appear to be well-fed, well-clothed, with many carrying cell phones, riding on motorbikes, driving cars, etc.
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Police discover corpses of three more victims of 'Craigslist killer'

The number of women suspected to have been killed by the notorious ‘Craigslist killer’ crept up to at least seven on Tuesday as police discovered three more bodies from an area near the highway leading to Jones Beach in New York. The Suffolk County Police said the body of an eighth woman has also been found, but the case has not yet been connected to the Craigslist killing.

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