Then there will be the vote on the Owen Hennessey amendment referring part of it to a select committee. (see previous post).

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Sierra also said it expects to post Q4 results in in line with previous guidance.

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It also reinforces the position that I took in my previous post, which argues that Apple should be focusing its resources on capturing tremendous growth opportunities, rather than paying substantial dividends from its cash holdings.

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In my previous post I pointed out the broad scope of new recruitment and given the US is dependent on private sector consumption it is gratifying to see that the retailers have their hiring hats on.

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Maintaining a 2% reserve in the MMI Fund is a prudent, make-sense business practice and although previous fund management practices may not have been able to deliver this reserve in the past, it is a welcome post-mortgage meltdown priority.

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