Since the death of Steve Jobs on 5 October 2011, shares of Apple are up an incredible 45%, which raises the question, How much does the quality of management mean to a company and its stock performance?

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 16:48

The fact that Facebook is in its SEC-mandated quiet period makes it extremely difficult for it to publicly counter Yahoo’s allegations

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 16:23

Video Image via Wikipedia In her interview with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday night, Whitney Houston's sister in law Pat said she didn't care who took the picture of her best friend lying in an open coffin and sold it to the National Enquirer. But the photo has upset a lot of people. [...]

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 15:48

Netscape cofounder Jim Clark and Canadian money manager Stephen Jarislowsky throw their support behind embattled former Goldman executive Greg Smith, who wrote a scathing op-ed before resigning.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 23:53

We all know that Apple is sitting on vast amounts of cash: we all also know that US corporations in general are cash rich at present. This is something of an economic problem as, of course, we would rather see this money being put to work. Either invested by the [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 11:09

The Internet is full of awesome “I quit” stories, but not much tops Greg Smith’s departure from investment firm Goldman Sachs: he published his motives for leaving in the New York Times’ op-ed section. One of his many reasons? “The environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.” Well, Darth Vader also agreed that he didn’t [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 04:10

Hong Kong billionaire Lui Che Woo announced Thursday that Galaxy Entertainment Group's profit tripled last year to 3 billion Hong Kong dollars ($387 million). Lui's net worth rose to $5.7 billion on the latest World Billionaire List, due in large part to Galaxy's share price that surged nearly 77% over [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 12:50

Weak prices can weigh on Exxon’s upstream revenues, which contribute a major portion of the company’s overall valuation.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 17:13

Stocks appear ready to coast higher once again today .Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife Jobless claims remained a four-year low last week, a sign the U.S. employment picture continues to improve. Some 351, 000 Americans filed for unemployment benefits, a 3% decrease from the week before. The previous week's figure was [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:12

The reason for the gap between the actual U.S. economy and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics job numbers is that the BLS numbers are wrong.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 13:44