Christie's auction house has been entrusted with the sale of a jewelry collection from the estate of Huguette M. Clark, one of the last great heiresses of America's Gilded Age. Ms. Clark's collection, which is believed to have been stored in a bank vault since the 1940s, includes signed Art Deco jewels by Cartier, Dreicer ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 17:24

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (AMEX: JNK) where we have detected an approximate $43.3 million dollar inflow ? that?s a 0.4% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 300,423,812 to 301,523,812). Click ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 17:56

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (AMEX: JNK) where we have detected an approximate $209.3 million dollar inflow ? that?s a 1.8% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 295,523,812 to 300,823,812). Click ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 17:24

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 revised down to 351,000, according to the Labor Department?s weekly report. Separately, the prices for goods produced in ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:23

Mixed housing data and new fears of a Chinese slowdown have kept the market in a pullback since Tuesday.

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

Does unfettered crowd funding and initial public stock offerings open the door to investment fraud? In the immortal words of philosopher , ?you betcha.? While it sounds like one of those online innovations that may make capital available to a larger number of people, crowd funding could make the boiler room scams of the 1980s ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 15:53

This article originally appeared in the Apr. 9, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. If you haven't read the bestselling, superb biography and inspiring business book, , by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $35), do so. asked Isaacson to write it and urged friends and foes to cooperate with the undertaking. Jobs never asked to read ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:25

John Calipari is simultaneously loved and loathed.

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 18:54

Quiz time: if you're 18 years old and your ambition is to become president of the United States, where should you go to college? How about Harvard? Or maybe Yale??? If you're an 18-year old who wants to become an NBA lottery pick, where should you go to school? I would argue for The . ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:25

Just as it looked like the hometown school district of John Kasich, Ohio governor and inadvertent poster child for Tea Party backlash, would have to eliminate sports because of falling revenues and voters? rejections of property tax hikes, the voters of Westerville, Ohio, on March 6 passed a school levy that allows games, as well ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 18:54