Can it really be true that today's corporate bond yields are attractive both to corporate borrowers and to investors? Genuine "win-win" situations are rare in finance, but bond buyers are getting a fair deal even though companies view prevailing rates as highly advantageous.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 16:21

The $2.5-$4 billion that Google seems to be asking for this business is a premium of 67-267% over our estimated fair value and therefore seems a tad overpriced in our opinion.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 18:54

How is Best Buy like Starbucks? Aside from a big overlap in their target demographic, there may be more points of difference than similarity. But there is one thing they will soon share — the influence of Stephen Gillett.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 19:45

While calling the unexpected drop in unemployment rate a "welcome" surprise, Bernanke warned that gross domestic product growth has not kept pace.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 15:55

Image via inpharm In the IRS’s quest for better and more automated matching of income and Social Security numbers, it’s well known that IRS Forms 1099 are important. See Watch Your Mail For 1099s. You get the pesky little slips of paper in January signaling that you have something to report [...]

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 12:04

Google hopes to improve its mobile advertising offering by targeting shoppers better with coupons and promotions through the use of data, stats and trends gleaned from the Google Wallet usage.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 16:10

Even though it is trying to minimize its losses by half in fiscal 2012 through cost-cuts and increased generics utilization, it faces increasing reimbursement rate pressure on its margins from the Pharmacy Benefit Managers.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 16:22

Exchange has to halt its own shares after offering.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 20:43

World Bank president nominee Jim Yong Kim. Amidst early praise for President Obama’s nomination of Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim as head of the World Bank, Lant Pritchett, a tenured professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government who worked at the World Bank for 17 years, is blasting Kim’s nomination as [...]

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 19:20

This story accompanies a profile of the French exploit-selling firm Vupen in the April 9th issue of Forbes magazine. A clever hacker today has to make tough choices. Find a previously unknown method for dismantling the defenses of a device like an iPhone or iPad, for instance, and you [...]

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 14:43