Saturday, December 24, 2011

New Normal investing

Investing in the 'new normal'
TODAYonline
We are now at the onset of a "new normal" or a new global reality where significant changes to the global economic and investment landscape will be seen in the coming years. Governments and banks in the United States and Europe are reeling from a ...

Stroke survivor finds 'new normal'
Roanoke Times
"At one point, my rehab and stroke defined my life, and at this point my life is normal - a new normal, but it is not a terrible normal." The effects of the stroke are still with her. She can't wear stilettos. She can only run for about five minutes. ...

Roanoke Times

Kraft and General Mills Preview 2012 Product Launches
brandchannel.com
There's tepid consumer spending in the US, Europe and even Asia, on top of that "new normal" thing that came out of the Great Recession. Regulators are pursuing food and beverage companies that aren't getting on the better-for-you train fast enough. ...

Top Newsmakers: Venture capitalists upheld 'new normal' in 2011
New Mexico Business Weekly
Venture capitalists say the industry's “new normal” following the recession is for startups to do more with less. True to their word, investors put a lot less this year into new and existing portfolio companies than prior to the recession. ...

New Residential Home Sales Increase 1.6% in November 2011
Economic Populist
The variance in monthly data is so large, all one can say is the volume in new home sales seems to have stabilized to the new normal and inventories are returning to normal. Calculated Risk is a fantastic analysis site on housing data compares new home ...

Predictions for Britain's housing industry in 2012
Telegraph.co.uk
Britain's housing industry has been through the pain of the house market slump and in slimmed-down shape is coping with the new normal of much reduced sales. Housebuilders are placed to benefit from Government moves to boost building and help...

Telegraph.co.uk

5 Worst Market Calls of 2011
CNNMoney
With such wild swings becoming the new normal, it was easy to be on the losing side of the market's irrationality day to day. The worst calls of 2011 were ones where well-known investors (or in the case of a certain airline, nearly all of Wall Street) ...

2011: The Year in Sustainability
Triple Pundit
It was a year in which temperature extremes became the new normal here in the US, with close to 3000 monthly temperature records being broken, along with droughts and heat waves across the globe. Every indicator used by NOAA to measure temperatures on ...

Triple Pundit

HAMILTON: From Fukushima to fracking, disaster and controversy stalked 2011
Toronto Star
One would expect lower economic growth would lead to reduced demand and cheaper oil, but supply isn't what it used to be – triple-digit oil prices will be the new normal in 2012 and beyond. Commodities across the board are expected to rise, ...

Texans-Colts post game thoughts from your good friend Steph
Houston Chronicle (blog)
As I discussed before, we are experiencing the new normal, a team having to be MacGyvering wins with a back up back up quarterback. The team that lost to the Panthers and Colts is not that different than the won that beat the Falcons and Bengals. ...

Houston Chronicle (blog)

JFS Goodwill Ambassador Mike McKee
Heritage Florida Jewish News
Unemployment is not declining and we may be looking at the new normal.“ McKee continues, “I think JFS' Family Stabilization Program is amazing. Helping people to help themselves is an awesome concept. It's what we need as a society – people empowered ...

Heritage Florida Jewish News

Deals of the Day: AT&T Rebounds in Washington
Wall Street Journal (blog)
[Rolling Stone] No Starups for You: Young company incubator Y Combinator banned companies from its Demo Day event if they support the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act. [TechCrunch] Wacky or New Normal? The valuations of some recent tech IPOs seem ...

Robinson tended Stanislaus well
Modesto Bee
As the economy weakened and revenues worsened, Robinson moved early not only to reduce expenses, but to begin to reshape county government to a "new normal" in terms of staffing, services and public expectations. Working closely with the Board of ...

Search for 100 real-life heroes: from bullet-ridden Kabul to a Rio favela
The Guardian
"I now know I want to work in a women's rights organisation, with and for radical feminists, the radical [female heroes] in society who are clawing every day to create anew normal." By the end of her two-year odyssey, Sharma will have seen the ...

The Guardian

From In-laws To Outlaws
Huffington Post (blog)
Give them time to transition through the divorce and to create a new normal. 3. If you are close, DO dialogue with them. "I know this is difficult for the whole family. I'm not going to ask you to take sides. I'd like to remain close and check in ...

Pumping the E-Brakes
Inside Higher Ed
... though: Many of its more discouraging portions read not as the intractable conditions of the digital college of the future, but as the inevitable -- and in many cases, fixable -- hiccups that come with adjusting to a new normal. ...

Jakarta Program Offers Free Cancer Screenings
Jakarta Globe
This allows new, normal cells to grow back later in the same area. The treatment normally costs only Rp 100000 ($11), but the government is planning to begin providing subsidies to cut the cost to Rp 30000, Laila said. Once the disease advances to a ...

It's time to dispel festive spirit over stocks
Financial Times
Larry Hatheway of UBS suggests we are in a “new normal”, with slow growth and low interest rates. In such a world, companies change their behaviour. Rather than invest for future growth, they behave more conservatively, and run themselves “for cash”. ...

The 3 Ghosts of a Tampa Bay Buccaneers Christmas
Rant Sports
This is a trend which seems to be the new normal at One Buc. Youth is a positive in the competitive NFL, but youth whose mentors are as green as they are is exactly why the Buccaneers are in their current predicament. No other player in recent ...

Union County officials reduce budget by $1 million
ThisWeekNews
“We won't know what the 'new normal' is in terms of the state budget, I don't think, until 2013 or even 2014. But certainly, the next year or two will be challenging.” One line item in the budget that did increase significantly from 2011 to 2012 was ...

'The Artist' will brighten your holiday
Beaver County Times
It feels similar to what's happening in our country's current recessionary time, when unemployed workers are constantly reminded that improving skills makes them employable in this new-normalfinancial period. But please don't think that "The Artist" ...

The Great Opportunities Ahead (Asian Chemical Connections)
By John
And he points out, as we do in Chapter 3 of our e-book Boom, Gloom & the New Normal, that successive waves of financial deregulation, including decisions taken by the Clinton administration, set the groundwork for the 2008 financial crisis. ...
Asian Chemical Connections

Big-data for Security: A new strategy against hackers | Splunk Blogs
By Mark Seward
The bad guys are well aware of this, and they're using highly sophisticated techniques to exploit this blind spot. And as the Chamber's chief operating officer cautioned in the WSJ article, “This is the new normal.” “It's nearly impossible to keep ...
Splunk Blogs

AIR JORDAN SHOPPERS GET “PIKED” « The Burning Platform
By AWD
Lt. Pike has opened Pandora's box also, pepper spray is the new normal now. Police pepper spray rowdy shoe shoppers in Seattle AP. SEATTLE (AP) — Police used pepper spray to break up fights among pushing and shoving customers ...
The Burning Platform

Foreclosures May Delay Housing Rebound to 2013
By Queenbee
“The new normal is that, if you can get a mortgage, housing is dirt cheap,” Simon said, using the term popularized by his colleagues at the fund manager to describe the extended period of below-average economic growth they forecasted ...
Queenbee's Inside the Hive

See You Next Year | Gwydion Suilebhan
By Gwydion
His birthday was on Christmas, and (as I think many of you know) he died unexpectedly this summer. I know from losing a brother a few years ago that it takes a lot of time to accommodate to a loss like this — to find a new normal — and I'm not ...
Gwydion Suilebhan

Early Warning: Latest Palmer Drought Severity Trends
By Stuart Staniford
The absolute values of the change are large - those pink-red regions are changes of 3-4 PDSI units in 50 years - implying that what was a severe drought fifty years ago is the new normal. The drying is most pronounced in Canada, the ...
Early Warning

NFL Wildcard Weekend 2011 - SportsOverdose
By contact@sportsoverdose.com
Tennessee Titans Daily Links: When A Slump Becomes The New Normal Edition. Ugh. I get that there's an argument to be made that Hass is a huge part of the reason we're still in contention for a wildcard spot, and he's got the most ...
Latest Sports Topics - sportsoverdose...

Uncertainty is the new normal for 2012 - BizTimes
Kliber lamented about the uncertainties over “taxes, regulations and the toxic political environment.” If this is the “new normal,” it's nothing to cheer about, Kliber ...
www.biztimes.com/.../uncertainty-is-the-new-normal-for-2012

The New Normal... - MilwaukeeMoms
The New Normal... Posted by Mandy Reilly on Dec. 22, 2011. Nothing says Christmas more than a group of children dressed up ready to present their version of ...
www.milwaukeemoms.com/blogs/.../136088148.html

Cynthia D'Amour on Leadership and Life » What's My New Normal?
What's My New Normal? Posted on December 12th, 2011 by Cynthia D'Amour. I' m not sure. Today a friend shared his new fitness plan success. So proud of ...
cynthiadamour.com/2011/12/12/whats-my-new-normal/

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