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WorldSpreads has released an updated version of its trading platform which is now custom optimised for mobile handsets.  With the iOS optimised mobile spread trading platform, clients can now bet on the move, permitting them to manage their dealing accounts in real-time whenever they happen, irrespective if they are at the office or travelling.

We are told that the mobile trading platform has been primarily designed with simplicity in mind while retaining all the essential features that spread traders need to be in control of their trading portfolios 24 hours a day.  The mobile platform has been optimised specifically for the iPad and iPhone and users will need iOS 4.2 or above.

From an iOS device WorldSpreads clients can:

• Access thousands of live streaming market prices.
• Monitor existing trading positions in real-time.
• Monitor profit and loss on the move
• Set or adjust limits or stops.
• Read breaking market news from Reuters
• Quickly close out or open new positions

The mobile trading platform is available free of charge to all WorldSpreads Active and Platinum spread betting account holders and there are no applications or downloads required. T

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As you may know, rare earths are a group of 17 elements crucial to production of energy and modern devices from iPhones and laptops to solar panels and oil refineries.

Nearly every modern comfort and gadget relies on this group of metals in one way or another.

Despite their name, rare earths aren’t all that rare…

And that’s precisely why you didn’t hear much about them until last year.

While these metals aren’t “rare” in the traditional sense of the word, they are concentrated in only a few locales around the globe.

It just so happens that 95% of these metals are currently mined in China.

That was fine — until China started using rare earths as a trade weapon last year by cutting export quotas and sending prices soaring higher.

That’s the moment the rest of the world began its infatuation with this group of metals.

And for good reason: Not only are they crucial for modern life, as I’ve mentioned, but they were also creating fortunes for companies with access to them outside of China.

Just one of the 17 elements, lanthanum, cost $5/kilogram at the beginning of 2010. It hit

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Salient Advisors, a Houston-based asset manager, is taking steps with U.S. regulators to gain permission to market exchange-traded funds, and plans for its first ETF to be focused on energy master limited partnerships.

In a filing it submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Salient requested so-called exemptive relief from sections of the 1940s Investment Act to market actively managed ETFs and fund-of-funds ETFs.

The company detailed plans for its initial fund, the Salient MLP and Energy Infrastructure ETF, which would invest in master limited partnerships as well as in energy infrastructure companies.

The Salient fund would enter an already well-populated space of MLP ETFs sponsored by companies like Alerian and Van Eck. The biggest MLP-related exchange-traded product is the J.P.

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CINCINNATI – Tired of taking those sale flyers with you while you hunt for Black Friday deals?

We’ve put almost 20 ads on our mobile sites so you can have them on your cellphone!

From Walmart to Toys R Us to Kohl’s , we have you covered this Black Friday holiday shopping season!

Here’s a snapshot of what it looks like…

All you have to do is open our WCPO app on your iPhone or Android cell and click on the Black Friday Ads folder on the main page.

Have an Android? Click here to download.

Have an iPhone? Click here to download.

Don’t have our app but you do have an Internet-enabled phone? Type wcpo.m0bl.net/ into your cell’s browser and you’ll have the ads too.

Or just study up now with our interactive online ad guide at wcpo/blackfriday .

ASK any pundit why Italy is in crisis and they will mention some combination of Silvio Berlusconi, a towering national debt, and a moribund economy. The explanation resonates since all three have undeniably been enormous negatives for Italy. Today’s market action seems to vindicate the reasoning: with the prospect of a new government under Mario Monti and speedy implementation of a new budget, Italian bond yields have plummeted below 7%, and stocks around the world have rallied.

But these factors are not the root cause of the crisis and as long as Europeans behave as if they are, a resolution will elude them.

Italy has been burdened by Mr Berlusconi, a large national debt and a moribund economy for most of the past decade. As Daniel Gros points out, some of Italy’s key fundamentals—investment, R&D, educational attainment—have actually improved relative to Germany in that time. Yes,

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Leib Solutions, one of the leading commercial collection agencies in the United States, announced that Bob Leib, President & CEO, has been named to the Board of Directors of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.

“We are so thrilled Bob is able to serve on the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. As a true leader in the business community, Bob’s unique talents will help GPCC in its mission to further grow this region’s economy,” said Rob Wonderling, President & CEO, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce

“I am thrilled and honored to be among the region’s business leaders and am committed to the Chamber as the leading voice of the region’s business community. I look forward to contributing to its success”, said Bob Leib.

The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce (GPCC) is the premier advocate of the region’s business community, representing members in 11 counties across three states with one voice. The GPCC is dedic

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