when she took over the helm at yahoo a couple of years ago, the stock jumped in after-hours. now the shares are jumping again in after-hours following her ouster. hire and fire her a few times in a row and that should deliver the long-suffering yahoo shareholders some decent returns […]
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many people are asking about the after-effects of the s&p downgrade of the US credit. valid concern, but one wonders about the before-effects, in terms of what happened in the markets last week. in particular, last thurs the stock market took a sharp dive with nary a noteworthy financial or […]
never mind italy, people have to wonder if the US is becoming another greece. sure, moody's credit threat is based on the in-fighting over the debt ceiling, but the endless debt ceiling "adjustments" are the real problem. what's ailing america isn't the argument over its debt limit, it's the unbridled debt itself […]
the question is whether ING direct, soon to be capital one, can continue to serve its customers the same way as before. the best capital one can do is to leave ING direct's operations alone. we'll see, but my bet is that capital one will start messing around and ultimately […]
of course they knew this all along and it could even be worse. but this is how pr is done today. you don't release the bad news all at once. you trickle it out slowly. and you mask the real bad stuff, sometimes forever. Citi says more than 360,000 credit […]
this is so ass/2. there should be much harsher consequences for people who deliberately and willfully stop paying on their loans. instead these people are being portrayed as financially savvy. which landlords are insane enough to rent to them after they default on their mortgages? they could screw the landlords […]
sad to read that most americans can't come up with $2k in case of an emergency. granted, it's a decent amount, but i bet most people could sock that much away, if they eased up a tiny bit on waste. Half of Americans don't have $2,000 for a rainy day […]
are these stock market crash guys much different than the bible dudes predicting the end? they should merge their operations and make one big mega scam.
valuation of $4.1 billion for linkedin out of the gate? that's seriously ass/2. who'd buy it at that level? Sizing up the LinkedIn bubble - Street Sweep: Fortune's Wall Street Blog Term Sheet.