Bank recovers from Tuesday basting, tech giant soars before settling back to even.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:54

In what is surely a sign that the apocalypse is nigh I find myself fully in agreement with the Obama Administration?s man in Moscow, Michael McFaul about the need to??immediately??repeal the Jackon-Vanick amendment without preconditions or the passage of additional ?human rights? legislation. Although I?ve had many agreements with McFaul over the years, and still ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:54

We are ashamed to announce the winner of the 2012 Forbes Jargon Madness tournament: "Drinking The Kool-Aid." Click here for a 15-second video tribute to this granddaddy of corporate gobbledygook, courtesy of Family Guy's Stewie Griffin. A tourney recap: In honor of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Forbes assembled a "Jargon Madness" bracket featuring 32 ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:54

Today is the deadline for corporate taxes. It?s also the Ides of March. On this day, Julius Caesar allegedly met a seer who claimed that harm would come to him not later than the Ides of March. Caesar remarked to the seer, "Well, the Ides of March have come." The seer replied, ?Ay, they have ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:54

How Do You Manage People Who Are Clearly Smarter Than You, Without Them Thinking You're An Idiot? This question was originally answered by Tom Yuin on Quora.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:54

I come to bury innovation, not to praise it. (With appropriate apologies to the Bard) I recently spent several days at an upscale hotel in .?? It had all the trappings of a yuppie hotel, lighting, electronics, and so forth.?? Should have been a really cool place to hang out for a week. However, they ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:23

? People seem so shocked by bills introduced into state legislatures.?? Lately they have had to do with reproductive issues, which is so vulgarly 21st Century.?? Gone are the days when some things went unmentioned and were left up to the imagination.?? Now everything comes under the jurisdiction of the government (we wanted it this ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:23

Appirio, a cloud services provider, announced a Series D round of funding for??$60 million today. The investors include General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital. As seen with today's Demandware IPO ? which is up over 50% ? the cloud space is getting huge traction. The industry, which has seen mega-acquisitions from companies like and ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:23

Most of the price appreciation on TIPS is attributable to the general decline in interest rates over the last several years, rather being due to inflation adjustments. We've experienced a nearly three decade bull run in bonds that will one day, perhaps sooner than we think, reverse course, perhaps right now.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:23

Here are some ideas on sectors and companies that could outperform the broader market in up, down and sideways conditions.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:23