It has long been rumored but investors finally got confirmation this week that Palm would be sold. The only thing that many investors did not know was who was going to buy this company that has fallen from its height of the 1990s. Who bought this company? None other than technology pioneer Hewlett Packard, which paid a hefty sum for this company that helped create the smart phone market as we know it.

The United States Treasury has announced the sale of Citigroup stocks, which amounts to roughly 27 percent of the company. This is considered to be the next step by the Obama administration to begin to end the bailouts that proved to be so unpopular around the United States. It is also a sign that things are improving around the economy these days.

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OptionsHouse literally does not have 40% of the stocks you would want to purchase because of expected rally. Who wouldn’t be part of the rally when we know its coming? But OptionsHouse does not even bother to resolve that problem.

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