Yet another SEC fraud case. Yet another phony audit report. Yet another bogus accounting firm. Is Wall Street nothing more than a string of Potemkin villages?

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 14:25

Just four months out, and it looks like the Olympic sneaker war is emerging as the race to watch at the 2012 London Olympics. As I reported the other week, Asics is making a run for the European market, challenging Nike and . Now it looks like could fall to the back of the line ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 18:56

Reporters catch Obama "off mic" conversation with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:57

Don't leave any yield on the table.

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 20:26

There are two little debates going on in the economics blogosphere at the moment, two which have a bearing on my own suppositions about the subject. I say suppositions rightly for I must, as I often do, point out that I am not a professional economist nor do I have any advanced degrees in the ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 16:53

OVERVIEW Opko Health (NYSE:??OPK) is a mid-cap pharmaceutical stock with several corporate growth strategies: clinical drugs, medical devices, and strategic acquisitions. Of particular interest to many investors is its CEO?s systematic buyback of common stock in the open market, totaling over $23 million in buys for his personal account during the past year. Because of ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 16:27

For most??investors, ?fixed income? means bonds, which in turn means a??full service brokerage account and all of its attendant fees. Yet, a wide variety of fixed-income offerings are available to those who don?t have access to a bond desk and still desire annual returns in the 5-9% range. The vast majority of these offerings trade ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:26

Index funds are better than the majority of their actively managed peers, according to Standard & Poor's.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 16:25

IndyCar begins the 2012 season March 23-25 with the Honda Grand Prix in St. Petersburg, Florida. The sport has reason to be optimistic. Last year the open-wheel racing circuit experienced significantly better television ratings and higher attendance at the track and has new commercial deals. I sat down with IndyCar?s CEO, Randy Bernard, this week ...

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 14:54

Consumer prices notched up last month with a sharp rise in gasoline prices, the Commerce Department said today. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4%, the largest jump in 10 months, meeting economists? forecast. prices were biggest source of the advance, contributing some 80% of the spike. The gasoline price jump led to a 3.2% in ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 14:24