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20 big dividend stocks costing you money

2014-10-31 00:29:00| Toys - Topix.net

Chasing fat dividends is a favorite pastime of investors looking for cash. But that popular strategy has failed miserably with many household-name stocks.

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Indias first Mars satellite enters orbit, costing just 11% of NASAs own Mars mission

2014-09-24 13:40:50| Extremetech

India's Mars orbiter, Mangalyaan, has successfully inserted itself into Mars orbit. India becomes only the fourth space agency to successfully make it into Mars orbit, behind the Soviets, NASA, and the ESA. Remarkably, the entirety of India's Mangalyaan mission cost just 4.5 billion rupees -- or about $74 million. Compare this to NASA's own MAVEN Mars orbiter, which has a total mission cost of around $672 million. This was also India's first attempt to reach Mars orbit -- historically, only Europe's ESA made it to Mars on its first attempt.

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VIDEO: Remittances costing African migrants

2014-08-11 09:19:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The United States has offered billions to contribute to Africa's economic development, but many who left the continent to build a new life in America may be missing out.

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Rising temperatures, seas seen costing US billions

2014-06-27 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CNBC: Ignoring the effects of climate change will cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars, with a large part of that loss connected to farms that struggle to adapt and coastal lands flooded by the oceans, according to a report released this week. The report, entitled "Risky Business," broadly addresses the risks climate change poses to the U.S. economy, and is endorsed by a bipartisan group of heavy hitters from the investing and business worlds. The report doesn't provide new climate change science....

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