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The actions of MF Global CEO Jon Corzine finally may have caught up to him. The former chief of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) may be taken to court by the trustee charged with sorting…
Top officials, including the finance ministers of the G7, have called an emergency meeting over the European sovereign debt crisis. Observers wonder whether these ministers can succeed where the European Union, European Central Bank…
The Samsung Galaxy S III, which is considered by many observers of the smartphone market to be an iPhone killer, will launch across all four U.S. wireless carriers next week. The handset has been…
Top officials, including the finance ministers of the G7, have called an emergency meeting over the European sovereign debt crisis. Observers wonder whether these ministers can succeed where the European Union, European Central Bank…
The cost of tickets to watch professional sports varies considerably. In some cities, they can be the same as dinner and a movie. For some teams, however, tickets can cost so much that most…
Very many experts on international finance and the politics of the eurozone expect Greece to leave the alliance. Some believe that the nation’s gross domestic product, debt and unemployment problems cannot be solved by…
courtesy Facebook Inc.Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) shares may be down 30% from the IPO price, and the company may be besieged by shareholder lawsuits, but those troubles have not kept two large American companies from…
Two large shareholders of Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) have managed to push out four of the company’s nine directors, as Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management overhauled the governance structure of the big energy…
nationsonline.orgResearch firm Markit reported that eurozone PMI reached a three-year low in May, which puts it back to levels of the last recession. If there was any more proof needed that the region is…
What does Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) want with a small publisher of mystery, romance, and Western novels? None of the 3,000 titles owned by Avalon Books is online now. Amazon must believe there is a…
Some investors believe that Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is spread too thickly with it efforts in Asia, additions of new energy and fruit drinks, and efforts to further conquer the grocery store business. CEO Howard Schultz…
Newspapers from Detroit to New Orleans have cut their delivery schedules to three or four days a week to save production costs. Their publishers reason that people will read their content on the Internet…
Robert Benmosche, the ailing CEO of AIG (NYSE: AIG), has suggested the retirement age in the United States could rise well above 65. If he is right, the impact on unemployment among young Americans…
As much of the world moves into or toward recession, Brent crude has fallen to less than $100 a barrel from $120 four months ago. It is only a coincidence, but it begs the…
Publicly traded companies, by definition, have many shareholders. The company’s management is supposed to be accountable to those shareholders. As it turns out, however, in some cases shareholders have limited power, and in other cases…
The debate over whether Europe should have one central financial authority grows louder. Even Angela Merkel of Germany has hinted she would drop her objections to eurobonds if this new authority has substantial influence…
The European Union may form a central office of treasury to match the European Central Bank. (Reuters) Ford (NYSE: F) may create brands specific to the Chinese market. (Reuters) The slowing economy hurts U.S.…
If the DJIA has an important support level at 12,000, either technically or psychologically, the floor is about to be breached. The index sits at 12,050, and there are a number of indications investors…
nationsonline.orgThe debate over whether Europe should have one central financial authority grew louder. Even Angela Merkel of Germany has hinted she would drop her objections to euro-bonds if this new authority has substantial influence…