Interesting times, and stepping up the game
Following the great banking crisis of 2007/8 the world now is realizing that the old ways are gone forever. Or are getting to that realization. What follows is described by the appropriately chosen Chinese Proverb ‘May you live in interesting times.’ to their enemies.

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FARO Reports First Quarter 2010 Sales Growth of 34.4%
FARO Technologies, Inc. today announced results for the first quarter ended April 3, 2010. Â Sales in the first quarter of 2010 increased 34.4%, to $42.3 million, from $31.4 million in the first quarter of 2009. Â The Company reported net income of $2.1 million, or $0.13 per share, compared to a net loss of $0.41 per share in the first quarter of 2009.

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Essex Announces First Quarter 2010 Earnings Results
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – 05/05/10) – Essex Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESS – News ) announces its first quarter 2010 earnings results and related business activities. Funds from Operations (“FFO”) for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, totaled $45.7 million or $1.46 per diluted share compared to $71.8 million, or $2.50 per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. The Company’s FFO …

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Cramer’s ‘Mad Money’ Recap: Buying Into Fear (Update 1)
Cramer debunked the arguments of the bears and offered a long list of stocks to buy in a down market.

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Caldera Closes Financing – Raises $1.2M
Caldera Resources Inc. announced today that it has closed the final tranche of its non-brokered private placement, originally announced on April 12, 2010. A total of 889.61 Units, priced at $1,350 each, were subscribed for by investors, for total gross proceeds of $1,200,973.50.

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Six Flags preps for summer season
With its parent company out of bankruptcy, park officials are optimistic for 2010

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Taking stock
A team of five students from River Ridge High School won the spring 2010 Stock Market Game. The ninth-grade team was made up of students Gage Rhoden, Jonathan Shaw, Jacob Gaddis, Austin Kohler an…

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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. Extends Tender Offer to Acquire Diedrich Coffee
WATERBURY, Vt.—-Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. today announced that Pebbles Acquisition Sub, Inc. , a wholly owned subsidiary of GMCR, has extended its previously announced $35.00 per share cash tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of common stock of Diedrich Coffee, Inc. .

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Investment Stabilisation Fund achieves 6.4pc NAV growth in Q1
03 May 2010 MUSCAT — The Investment Stabilisation Fund (ISF), set up last year as a joint public-private sector initiative to help shore up the stock market, has achieved a 6.4 per cent in its Net Asset Value (NAV) during the first quarter of this year.

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Tenet Reports First Quarter 2010 Results
DALLAS—-Tenet Healthcare Corporation today reported adjusted EBITDA of $298 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, an increase of $20 million, or 7.2 percent, as compared to $278 million for the first quarter of 2009.

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