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Historically, Japanese consumers have preferred to pay for purchases using cash, believing that going to into debt was to be avoided at all cost. This has long frustrated credit card companies and banks wishing to enter the Japanese consumer debt market. Americans may not be exporting much else, but American-style consumerism seems to be taking root in Japan.

The contents in red wine formerly shown to retard aging in animals could prevent adult-onset diabetes and help with the negative effects of a diet rich in fat, according to a recent medical study published in Nature.

The Free Enterprise Action Fund (a small fund run by Republican Lobbyists) is a mutual fund that set out to prove that red leaning companies had superior earnings to that of blue leaning companies. During the first nine months of this year, the fund has lagged behind the S&P 500 by about 3 percentage points.

Newmont Mining Corp. (NEM) is scheduled to announce its quarterly earnings on 1 November at 4 pm EST. What do they do? Newmont Mining Corporation is one of the largest producers of gold and copper. They have mining operations all over the globe from the embattled Uzbekistan to the United States.

In article, “Bearish on Oil Stocks?“, we outlined a bearish strategy for oil stocks for the next few months. Almost every single bear call credit spreads stock options investment position selected in the article returned the maximum possible return with an average return of 5.1% in only 12 days.

With the 2006 hurricane season nearing its November 30 official end, the property & casualty segment of the insurance industry is probably starting to break out the champagne after enduring 2005’s tumultuous hurricane season.

In a previous article, “Bears are After the Homebuilders“, the plight of homebuilders was analyzed as a result of increasing interest rates. Mortgage lenders have also been negatively affected by increasing interest rates, however, there may be a silver lining in the case of mortgage lenders.

Following in the footsteps of rival MasterCard, Visa announced it is planning to issue an IPO (Initial Public Offering). There are currently three major players in the credit card arena: Visa, MasterCard (MA) and AmericanExpress (AXP), with market shares of 60%, 25%, and 11% respectively.

With North Korea’s claim to have detonated a nuclear weapon, the list of nuclear capable countries expands. Japan is probably the biggest loser with North Korea’s new nuclear capability, as Japan is within range of a North Korean nuclear missile.

With Microsoft’s (MSFT) announcement of Zune, its entry into the digital media player market, we are once again having a showdown similar to the PC/Mac showdown of the 80s and 90s.