Bond insurance companies are in the spotlight because of their involvement in messy mortgage securities.

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Private intelligence companies have been in the spotlight in recent months after hackers stole thousands of emails from the digital intelligence contractor HBGary Federal in February, revealing that the company had been working on proposals to spy on and discredit supporters of WikiLeaks using tactics associated with cyber warfare.

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The amount of corporation tax paid by large companies has been in the media spotlight recently.

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Van Eck Global is back to making its case for small cap companies in the big emerging markets, this time putting Russian domestics in the spotlight.

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The second roundtable, A Spotlight on Small Business Investment Companies and Their Role in the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, examined SBICs.

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Credit card companies put the spotlight on arguably the biggest name in investing, Warren Buffett, whose presence is even more strongly felt in his absence.

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This follows a year of hearings in Washington that pushed the two companies into a harsh spotlight as executives were called to testify under oath.

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Brill also turns his spotlight on medical device and pharmaceutical companies, which maintain very high prices and profits in the U.S., protected by Congress from attempts by Medicare to negotiate better prices.

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More so than in the past, a watershed communications success is indeed possible, especially if the spotlight remains on smaller companies and local populations.

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