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• Pearson Started a College; Is It a Good Investment?

  By Soroush Pour - August 24, 2012 | Tickers: GCI, JW-A, MHFI, PSO, RUK

  Chances are, we’ve all read a book printed by Pearson (NYSE: PSO), one of the world’s largest educational, business, and consumer publishing companies.  Headquartered in London since its creation in 1844, the company also runs the Financial Times newspaper.  Since the recession, shares of PSO have returned more than 60%, outpacing the publishing industry’s average (14.2%), and in between competitors like John Wiley & Sons (NYSE: JW-Amore »)

• LexisNexis &The Hurting Legal Sector

  By Jane Genova - March 22, 2012 | Tickers: GOOG, RUK, TRI

  Developments among the service providers to the legal sector could give investors insight into what factors generate business when an industry has been upended.  In the legal sector, conditons are so volatile that new lawyers, who can't get jobs, have been suing their law schools for misrepresenting jobs data.  Yesterday, a New York judge threw one of the cases out. But that's a sign of the times.  That more »