Global Entertainment Corp. announced today the grand opening of its two new event centers in Allen, Texas and Independence, Missouri.

Allen, Texas is proud of their beautiful new Allen Event Center (AEC). At the official ribbon cutting ceremony this past Nov. 4, 500 spectators packed the plaza entrance to hear Mayor Stephen Terrell welcome the happy citizens of Allen and people throughout Collin County.

Terrell conveyed his and the community’s excitement, recounting the opening events, which included a winning hockey game and a Reba McEntire concert (both of which saw a packed house), and said this was all the result of “years of strategic planning” involving the deliberate, coordinated cultivation of the Allen region of North Texas as an attractive venue.

Allen City Manager Peter Vargas proclaimed it a “fantastic day”, praising this new cultural achievement for his city, which can now “provide the community with quality entertainment at a

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This week on WealthTrack Consuelo Mack sits down with global investor Dennis Stattman, founding manager of the BlackRock Global Allocation Fund. Now in its 20th year, this Morningstar favorite has consistently delivered market and peer beating returns with less risk. In a wide ranging discussion, Stattman discusses the investment perils and opportunities he is tracking around the world.

Note: The transcript of this interview is not available yet, but will be posted here as soon as it arrives.

Source: Wealthtrack, November 6, 2009.

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Today, Simtrol, Inc.’s President and CEO issued the following letter to stockholders:

Dear Valued Shareholder,

I am writing today to give you an update on our business. In our business model, it is important that our technology offerings are scalable, easy to implement, attract market leading channel partners, and provide tremendous value for the end customer. We have refined and productized our technology assets, making them easy to deploy through our channel partners into the verticals we have targeted. During the past year, in spite of a difficult financial environment and exceptionally soft business climate, we have successfully developed multiple distribution channels for products based on our Device Manager™ technology. The major markets for these products include Education, Healthcare and Judicial/Corrections. We are excited about the prospects for these products as they work their way through their sales cycles. As these channels develop, there is a significant revenue opportunity which can emerge

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For the second time in the space of a month the FTSE 250 has cracked below its 20-day moving average. The last time this occurred was early summer; then the index went on to spend a few weeks below this moving average, making a new lower low, before resuming the trend higher. br /br /a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWGUfU1tOjI/Subcj5nlA5I/AAAAAAAABCY/YGpZ_jQiADA/s1600-h/Stock+Chart+a16.png"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 176px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWGUfU1tOjI/Subcj5nlA5I/AAAAAAAABCY/YGpZ_jQiADA/s320/Stock+Chart+a16.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397243712770474898" //abr /span class="fullpost"A similar event here should see a test of the 902.50 low -which was both an August reaction high and the early October reaction low - with the potential to drift down to 867 if a more protracted decline kicked in. Intermediate trends in the market tend to run between 3 weeks and 3 months with the current end-of-year a handy time scale for a flat/downward phase. br /br /A more serious decline (one lasting months) would require confirmation of ...

This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• George Soros (Financial Times): Do not ignore the need for financial reform, October 25, 2009. It is not the right time to enact permanent reforms. The financial system is far from equilibrium. The short-term needs are the opposite of what is needed in the long term.

• Paul Sandison: The two main threats to democracy and modern capitalism, October 20, 2009. In the present burgeoning economic crisis, already well over a hundred million people across the globe have been thrown into poverty, despair, sickness and are struggling to avoid a premature death. Billions of people abroad are vowing never to allow the United States and the United Kingdom to do this to them again. The remaining question is whether the

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Kafkaesque. The former Russian oil tycoon, who stood up to Putin, is back before his judges. Here is the story. [The following is a translation of an article published in the French publication Le Point.]

Le Point, October 15, 2009

Accused Khodorkovsky, Stand Up!

From our special envoy Marc Nexon

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Cavitation Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CVAT) has announced that it has filed PCT patent applications for new International Patent protections for its Nano Cavitation Technologies

Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced today the initiation of a feasibility study of an interventional treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED) that uses a specially-designed drug-eluting stent system. The study, called ZEN (Zotarolimus-Eluting Peripheral Stent System for the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction in Males with Sub-Optimal Response to PDE5 Inhibitors), is being

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Salesforce.com (CRM) continues to capture the headlines. The web-based software maker and a player in the "cloud computing" space now ventures into the business of selling accounting software in collaboration with a Dutch company. Salesforce has set up a company named FinancialForce.com in association with Unit 4 Agresso (UNI4), the parent company of financial software specialist CODA, that sells accounting software. Both the companies will invest in FinancialForce.com, which in turn will use CODA’s cloud accounting application previously known as CODA 2go and will deliver finance and accounting solutions in the cloud. This brings Salesforce to an area where the company has not ventured before. This new accounting application is expected to provide finance professional and CFOs with better efficiency and confidence to perform complex accounting operations. Both Salesforce and non-Salesforce customers will be able to use this application through FinancialForce.com. On the other hand, ...

The rude health of the Nasdaq has been evident by the strength from its internals; 74% of constituents are on point-n-figure buy signals, 71% are above their 50-day MA and an incredible 80% are above their 200-day MA. Such conditions can't continue forever so what should one be looking for? br /br /During the depths of despair encountered over the latter part of 2008 the percentage of Nasdaq stocks above their 200-day MA languished below 10% for the best part of 5-months. The percentage of stocks above their 50-day MA enjoyed a brief rally from 10% to 70% before heading lower. While the bullish percents struggled to challenge the 50% mark.br /br /a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWGUfU1tOjI/SsM17-vkMuI/AAAAAAAABCI/CRBVt0AoA3o/s1600-h/NASISep30.png"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 246px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWGUfU1tOjI/SsM17-vkMuI/AAAAAAAABCI/CRBVt0AoA3o/s320/NASISep30.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387208883836302050" //abr /br /span class="fullpost"If one was to flip this scenario on its head and apply it to the courent situation. the likely view going ...