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cxpromo.com — Top Calculator Choices Casio FX-115MS, a very good calculator I have been a faithful user of the HP 48G since 1995. However I needed a calculator that is permitted on the EIT exam. Since I am comfortable with Reverse Polish Notation entry format, my first inclination was to look for a HP product that is approved for the exam. However after reading the reviews on-line and seeing the price of the HP33S, I decided to look for an alternative. The TI 30XIIs and the Casio fx-115MS were viable options at a better price. I bought both of the TI and the Casio for comparison. Both calculators are about the same size, approximately 6″(T)X 3″(W)x1 The feel of the buttons/keys on the TI was a bit dull when pressed. The Casio keys had slightly more engaged-feel when depressed. The engaged-button feel helps when I am keying numbers without looking at the screen to know whether the calculator took the string of digits and operators correctly. The color scheme employed for button labeling on the TI does not make the “2nd” functions stand out. This is made worse by the shadow cast by the tall buttons, which make the lettering for the “2nd” functions harder to read. The Casio uses fairly distinctive colors for lettering and function schemes. This makes it easier and faster to find the correct key. I find that for engineering problems, Casio had more built in buttons. Thus I don’t have to always use “shift” or “2nd” functions. I also liked the layout of the buttons on the …

A week ago, Canaccord Genuity downgraded Sun Life Financial from Buy to Hold. Sun Life Financial stocks closed at .32, a 5.0% loss over the course of one week. A 0.7% potential upside exists for Sun Life Financial, based on a current level of .90 and analysts’ average consensus price target of .13. The stock should discover initial support at its 50-day moving average (MA) of .56 and subsequent support at its 200-day MA of .32.

(www.abndigital.com) Further steps need to be taken to enhance the regulatory framework and improve financial services. The proposed reforms include a shift to a “twin peak” system of financial regulation, with market conduct under the Financial Services Board, and prudential regulation in the Reserve Bank. An inter-agency financial stability oversight committee will be formed, and a Council of Financial Regulators. A policy discussion paper sets out the new framework for how the financial sector could better serve South Africa.

In this segment of WFG TV, WFG Agency Chairman Ed Mylett interviews EVC Penney Ooi and her Business Partner and husband, Benjamin Eeo. This interview was recorded at Penney’s WFG office in Pleasanton, Calif.

Alex talks with Catherine Austin Fitts, the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration. www.solari.com/ www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv

Feb 16th, 2011: Peter Vesterbacka is the man behind Angry Birds. Produced by gamemaker Rovio, it has been the number one app in the UK (on Android and iPhone) for the past year and leads the charts in 70 other countries. To date, the Angry Birds has been downloaded over 75 million times worldwide. At the Mobile World Congress he talks to Mary Watkins, technology correspondent, about the gravitational shift to mobile technology and the formula for making a winning app. For more on the Mobile World Congress, Rovio and the Apple iPhone- and Android platforms visit the Financial Times at: www.ft.com

John from Calgary don’t want Max Keiser on Jim Puplava’s show. Max Keiser talks to Stacy Herbert about financial propaganda and Jon Nadler at Kitco versus Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf recorded on February 19th 2011

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the central bank is working closely with other regulators to implement the biggest overhaul of the nation’s financial rules since the 1930s. (Feb. 17)

Award-winning investigative journalist Bethany McLean, who exposed the Enron scandal, shows that the crisis wasn’t about finance at all – it was about human nature.