For a company that has built its strategic lead, and lofty market cap, on best-of-breed search technology, this is a major weakness in Google's video-search offering.

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Now, I know -- and we all know -- that that rate of job growth is too slow to bring down the unemployment rate, and the continued weakness in the job creation remains a major challenge, one the President and the whole administration is committed to meeting, and a very difficult challenge.

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Lilly's fall emphasizes a key weakness of many big pharmaceutical companies: The expiration of a major patent allows generic drugs to enter the market and usually eat away most of the branded drug's sales within two years.

FORBES: Lilly, Other Drugmakers Rely On Patents

In recent weeks there have been rumors that other global central banks are considering major commitments to gold and gold mining shares as a way of protecting against expected weakness in the dollar.

FORBES: China May Buy More Gold; $1,100 An Ounce Appears To Be Support Level