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Today’s financial headlines from the BBC (video)

by Andalé Mono on November 6, 2012 in El Now, Video


Here are today’s top finance stories from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Facebook IPO #FAIL cost you money? Try MexicanMitt’s Feisbuk

by ESTAFF REPORTS on May 24, 2012 in Cultura, El Now


Facebook stock is foundering and cash-heavy investors are looking for a better place to lose their online money. That’s why MexicanMitt Romney is launching his own social media site – Feisbuk.

POCHO asked the nominee wannabe one question: What does Feisbuk have that Facebook doesn’t? Here’s his reply:
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GOP primary votes drive ‘knowledge industry’ shares lower

by Verdana Bold on February 1, 2012 in El Now, Pocho Ñews Service

Traders at the NYSE

(PNS reporting from WALL STREET) The spectacle of enthusiastic GOP voters choosing one pinche pendejo or the other in the Florida primaries sent the widely-watched RIF index lower Tuesday, as investors acted on fears that ignorance was the new black.

The Reading Is Fundamental index tracks firms like academic textbook publishers, for-profit educators and sliderule manufacturers.

The RIF index, which reached its highest level (3,141,592) immediately after the election of then Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) in November 2008, sunk to a new low of √-1 in after-hours trading. [Mas…]