Some of the more interesting and important items for May 8th :

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• Silver Set for Worst Weekly Drop Since 1975 Amid Commodity Rout – Bloomberg – Silver futures headed for the steepest weekly decline since at least 1975 as an increase in margin requirements and slump in commodities from copper to oil prompted investors to sell precious metals. Gold is set for the biggest drop since the week to Feb. 27, 2009.
• Goldman BRIC Fund Among Most Hurt in ‘Panic’ Commodities Selling – Bloomberg – The $831 million Goldman Sachs BRIC Fund (GBRAX) and the $825 million Templeton BRIC Fund (TABRX), which focus on Brazil, China, India and Russia, both fell 5.7 percent in the week ended yesterday. The funds, from New York-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and San Mateo, California’s Franklin Resources Inc., lost the most among diversified equity funds with more than $500 million in assets and at least 20 percent in energy or basic materials stocks, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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• Intel’s new technology to fight rise of ARM MarketWatch First Take – MarketWatch – SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Intel Corp. unveiled a revolutionary three-dimensional technology as it seeks to keep Moore’s Law alive amid the ever-increasing physics challenges and at the same time combat the challenges to its dominance in the PC industry.