1. How did real estate agent Bret Parsons characterize the decor of actor Nicolas Cage's foreclosed mansion in Bel Air, California? ANSWER: "Frat house bordello" CNBC Portfolio Challenge Bonus Bucks Answers for Tuesday, October 18, 2011 and CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge CNBC Bonus Bucks Answers See more Nicolas Cage photos: More on Zimbio: Most Outrageous Celebrity Purchases Nic Cage and His $276,000 Dinosaur Skull From the castle, to the king cobras (as well as the antidote serum...Read Full Story
1. According to Darren Rovell’s calculations, how much of their own money did NBA players put on the line with their announced intention to disband their union? ANSWER: $3.3 billion 2. According to chartist Daryl Guppy, the upside for Nymex oil over the next few weeks is capped at? ANSWER: $110-115 3. According to CNBC.com's guest writer Shaun Rein, which luxury brand is getting too popular for its own good in China? Answer: Louis Vuitton CNBC Bonus Bucks Answers Original content Bob DeMarco...Read Full Story
Forbes Travel Guide’s Five- and Four-Star Award Winners
Mandarin Oriental, Singapore is a new Five-Star hotel
Forbes Travel Guide unveiled its 54th annual listing of Five- and Four-Star award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas today, along with a new website, Startle.com . The interactive site gives readers an inside look into the world of the Forbes Travel Guide’s team of inspectors as it scours the globe looking for the ultimate in luxury travel at these top-rated spots.
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French Yields Exploded Upward
Bonds tobunds spread:
Yields on French 10-year government bonds just exploded, now up over 6% on the day to 3.14%.
The spread between French 10-year bonds and German bunds is up even more dramatically — more than 10 bps or a full 9% on the day. That's a euro-era wide, according to Dow Jones.
We have no idea what spurred this, but it can't have been good news.
Strife continues over remains of 9/11 victims
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CNBC Bonus Bucks Answers for Thursday, October 20, 2011 and CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge 1. Which of Rupert Murdoch's four children once ran a television production company called Shine that was acquired by Murdoch's News Corp. in April? ANSWER: Elisabeth 2. According to CNBC.com’s table of earnings surprises, how did Abbott Laboratories’ most recently reported earnings per share number compare to the consensus estimate? ANSWER: EPS was one cent above the estimate 3. Which publicly...Read Full Story
Marketwatch.com’s Jon Friedman wonders if a spate of recent CNBC departures is creating “a brain drain” at the #1 business network. Friedman points out that while several have left, the network has held on to the likes of Maria Bartiromo, Jim Cramer and Joe Kernen, among others.
Notably, CNBC announced in late 2009 the hiring of Wall Street Journal news executive Nik Deogun to be its managing editor. Before Deogun arrived, CNBC on-air...
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Robert Foothorap has been promoted to senior vice president-TV network advertising sales at CNBC from vice president-advertising sales and business development. He reports jointly to Marianne
Gambelli, President of NBC Advertising Sales and K.C. Sullivan, interim Chief Revenue Officer and CFO, CNBC.
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By Darren Rovell, Sports Business Reporter, CNBC
NEW YORK (CNBC) -- With a reported 200 million tweets posted every day, Twitter is unquestionably a great success -- a global favorite -- but we have some suggestions to make it even better for the users and followers.
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In Freedom Investing 2012 I analyzed the latest Index of Economic Freedom from The Heritage Foundation. Here I present some of the analysis for returns over the past 1-year. I took 17 of the developed countries with the largest investable markets and compared their current economic freedom score with their returns over the past 1, ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - The business climate in Hungary plunged in the quarter to January, dragging down the average for the European Union's developing eastern economies, a Thomson Reuters survey showed on Tuesday. The Thomson Reuters & OeKB Central and Eastern European Business Climate index of foreign direct investors slipped for a third consecutive quarter, to 14 points in January from 17 in ...