The video clips below provide a handy summary of the reports expected on the economic, financial and corporate front around the globe during the week ahead.

US: Housing data, holiday sales Investors will hear a lot about housing next week, with data on existing and new home sales coming. Hewlett-Packard will release results, and a gauge of holiday season sales will come on Black Friday.

Europe: LSE, Remy Cointreau report The London Stock Exchange, drinks company Remy Cointreau and electronics retailer DSG International report results. Consumer confidence data to hit in Germany and France.

Asia: GDP, auto makers in focus GDP reports from Taiwan, Philippines and Thailand will be in the spotlight next week, along with reports

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Future voting members of the Fed’s policy setting committee waved off concerns regarding a declining dollar on Thursday, Nov. 19, suggesting that unless the decline becomes volatile or otherwise erratic, concerns about an inflationary impulse are unwarranted.

In commentary that seems to suggest the dollar’s decline may be a counterbalance to a historically undervalued renminbi (RMB). Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher told Market News International (MNSI) that the declining dollar value was simply one factor out of many the Fed used as an analytical input for its policy setting model.

Fisher told reporters that “a gradually depreciating dollar” would not necessarily add an “enormous inflation impulse”, and that the Fed’s answer to concerns over a weaker dollar was to pay attention to the dollar’s activity. Fisher also mentioned that there are “trade-offs” to be made between the strength of the dollar and deliberately low interest rates existing over a protracted

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Newport Digital Technologies Inc. has positioned itself to profit from a number of high-growth technologies, including RFID and Wi-Fi. But none has more immediate potential than Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a set of technologies that allow people to use the Internet like a phone network.

Besides greatly reducing basic voice communication costs, VoIP systems also make common features, such as call-forwarding, conference calling, and automatic redial, easier to implement and less expensive. In addition, it opens the door for more advanced features, such as the use of Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol, video calling, and even web browsing.

There are three methods of connecting to a VoIP network:

1) Using a VoIP telephone 2) Using a normal telephone with a VoIP adapter 3) Using a computer with speakers and a microphone

NDT focuses on the first method, VoIP telephones, and provides various solutions, from consumer-oriented Skype phones

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Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) recently posted October net sales of $5.68 billion, a 7% increase over last year's $5.30 billion. Comparable sales spiked 5% year-over-year.

Company Description

Costco Wholesale Corporation operates an international chain of membership warehouses, mainly under the "Costco Wholesale" name. The company currently operates 562 warehouses, including 409 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 77 in Canada, 21 in the United Kingdom, 7 in Korea, 6 in Taiwan, 9 in Japan, 32 in Mexico and 1 in Australia. Costco also operates Costco Online at www.costco.com and at www.costco.ca in Canada. The company plans to open an additional five new warehouses (including the relocation of one warehouse to a larger and better-located facility), prior to the end of calendar 2009.

Recent Events

In recent news, it was reported that Costco will stop carrying Coke products due to a dispute over prices as the retail giant is trying

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Crown Equity Holdings - CRWE has been trading on the quiet side lately but it looks like things are starting to heat up!

CRWE - Crown Equity Holdings, Inc has recently made some announcements regarding acquisitions that could have far reaching implications for CRWE short, medium and long term investors.

One acquisition involves DJ Toys and Yana, a toy manufacturer and a venture philanthropy group while the other involves TTNews of Taiwan, a news company. All companies are based in Taiwan with the exception of Crown

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Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. Entered Into Agreement With TTNews of Taiwan

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 17, 2009 (CRWENEWSWIRE) — Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:CRWE) announced that it has entered into a Mutual Assistance and Technical Cooperation Agreement with TTNews of Taiwan.

Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. through CRWENewswire and TTNews, authorized each other to disseminate and publish the other’s news source and grant them mutual rights for the re-publication and dissemination of their respective news transmission.

About Crown Equity Holdings, Inc.

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Today’s invited guest blogger is Denis Bouchard from Taiwan. Please check out his long-term historic viewpoint on Fibonacci waves and how he comes to view today’s market. Feel free to comment  on this blog.

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Elliott Wave Insights, Part IV The End of a Six Thousand Year Elliott Wave Cycle

It has been several years since Elliott Wave Insights, Part III was published. With the major markets near the cusp of a directional change, the present is a very appropriate time to take several steps back and consider the overall picture of the wave pattern. A bird’s eye view of Elliott Waves from the beginning of human history may give us insights as to what lies ahead.

Strictly speaking the earliest stock market records are to be found in

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In the 60 years since Chinese nationalists moved to Taiwan, the country has grown up in a very different way from mainland China. Matthew Rivera reports from Taiwan on how culture, democracy and economics there offer an alternative China.

Source: MarketWatch, November 11, 2009.

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Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. Entered Into Letter of Intent with DJ Toys and Yana

Las Vegas, Nevada – (CRWENEWSWIRE) November 13, 2009 – Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. (CRWE.OB) announced that it has entered into Letters of Intent to enter into business combinations with DJ Toys Enterprise Corporation and Yana Venture Philanthropy Group, both of which are Taiwan corporations.

“From a company standpoint, the acquisition of DJ Toys and Yana will result in our shareholders having stakes in additional profitable, operating companies,” stated Kenneth Bosket, CEO and President of Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. The companies are now beginning due diligence reviews and negotiating the terms of definitive, material agreements. Once the reviews are completed and terms agreed to, the parties will work to execute an agreement. The agreements are not expected to close until the first quarter of 2010.

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The Trade Deficit decreased to $36.5 billion in September from $30.8 billion in August.  September exports increased by $3.7 billion to $132.0 billion, offset by the increase in imports by $9.3 billion to $168.4 billion.  The Commerce Department provided the September figures of the trade balance of the U.S. relative to selected trading partners, in billions of dollars, with surpluses in Hong Kong ($1.9), Australia ($0.9), Singapore ($0.3), and Egypt ($0.3).  Deficits were recorded, in billions of dollars, with China ($22.1), OPEC ($7.9),the European Union ($5.5), Mexico ($4.6), Japan ($4.1), Venezuela ($2.0), Nigeria ($1.9), Canada ($1.5), Korea ($0.8), and Taiwan ($0.7).

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