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From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 15, 2020 at 11:13 pm ET
The Fed Reserve seems to be moving towards implementing regulation and monetary policy shifts to stop asset bubbles from building up. In a series of comments by Federal Bank Governors, they have let it be ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 13, 2020 at 10:30 pm ET
Billionare activist investor Carl Celain Icahn, it seems, bought a cool 50 million Yahoo! shares in the past week alone, worth about $1.3 billion which gives him a 3.5% stake in Yahoo! Inc., and is ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 13, 2020 at 7:18 am ET
Bentonville, Arkansas based retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. topped analysts' forecasts by 1% to post a net income of $3.02 billion (76 cents per share) for the quarter ended April 30th, an increase of 6.9% over ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 11, 2020 at 9:36 pm ET
I hate to say I told you so, but I did. Regulators are piling on the oil industry, in the wake of a public backlash after oil crossed $120, and fears of $150 to $200 ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 9, 2020 at 10:22 pm ET
So Rep. Paul Kujawski of Webster, MA, sponsored an amendment to the House budget for studying whether university endowments worth over $1 billion in the state should be slapped with a 2.5% tax. This has ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 7, 2020 at 10:56 pm ET
There's big trouble in little Liechtenstein, and UBS AG's private bank just got caught in the crossfire between U.S. prosecutors and U.S. nationals with funds tucked away in the Principality of Liechtenstein. According to the ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 5, 2020 at 12:15 am ET
I was waiting for the fallout from Yahoo's rejection of the MS deal, before publishing this article. If you dig deep enough into these deals we've seen in the last couple of months, there seems ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 3, 2020 at 8:41 pm ET
From the New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Miguel Helft - Microsoft said Saturday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after the two companies could not agree on a price. ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 2, 2020 at 10:11 pm ET
Omaha, Nebraska based Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A and BRK.B) first quarter profits were dragged down 64% by $1.6 billion worth of pre tax losses related to derivatives contracts. Here's the full Q1 report from Berkshire, ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 1, 2020 at 10:01 pm ET
This week has been slightly surreal, in terms of the soap opera that is now known as Microhoo. Expectation last week was that after the April 26th deadline, Microsoft would either change the bid price ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 30, 2020 at 10:29 pm ET
nMove over predatory mortgage lenders. The new black sheep on Capitol Hill are credit card companies. Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and Sen. Carl Levin ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 29, 2020 at 9:48 pm ET
The Private Equity International Magazine just went online with its May 2008 issue, which includes the second annual listing of the world's top 50 private equity firms (PEI 50 - www.peimedia.com/pei50/). Working on background with ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 27, 2020 at 11:13 pm ET
A profit in Detroit's auto industry, had it been an animal, would by now have been enrolled into the EPA's endangered species protection program. So its only natural that the Ford Motor Co's quarterly $100 ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 26, 2020 at 10:50 pm ET
Russell Gold, Wall Street Journal, reports that Government investigators in a long-running bribery probe have evidence that agents of a construction consortium led by a former Halliburton Co. unit made payments to Nigerian officials. The ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 25, 2020 at 10:07 pm ET
April 26th, the deadline set by Microsoft head honcho Steve Ballmer for Yahoo to accept his offer is here, and there's still no friendly deal anywhere on the horizon. The two teams are still talking ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 25, 2020 at 2:11 am ET
The Justice Department's Anti-trust Division is in for a lot of sleepless nights. First they were worried about the impact of a possible Microsoft-Yahoo merger, which would have combined the search engine market for the ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 23, 2020 at 10:33 pm ET
Following up on his take on Bernanke, Roger Lowenstein has another must-read piece in this Sunday's issue of the New York Times magazine, called Triple-A failure. Its a full frontal assault on the Credit Rating ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 22, 2020 at 10:02 pm ET
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ - YHOO) announced first quarter revenues of $1.82 billion with a profit of $542.2 million, with a comparative 9% rise in revenues from last year accompanied by 27 cents boost in profits ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 21, 2020 at 12:56 pm ET
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores tops the Fortune 500 list for the second consecutive year with a 2007 profit of $12.73 billion on revenues of $378.8 billion. That's a jump of 7.9% in revenue over 2006. ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 20, 2020 at 9:13 pm ET
Cleveland based National City Corp., Ohio's largest bank, is all set to receive between $6 to $7 billion in a capital infusion bailout from an investment group led by the New York based private equity ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 17, 2020 at 9:51 pm ET
First, the facts first about Google's first quarter results, from the Wall Street Journal. Google's shares surged more than 17% in after-hours trading after it reported first-quarter profit rose 30% from the year before, compared ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 11, 2020 at 9:23 pm ET
The Clean Energy Tax Stimulus amendment cleared the U.S. Senate 88-8 riding piggyback on the Housing Act H.R.3221. The amendment, which contains the same text as stand-alone legislation (S.2821) introduced earlier this week by Senators ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 9, 2020 at 9:15 pm ET
The Wall Street Journal uncovers Yahoo Inc.'s feverish behind-the-scenes activity intended to keep Yahoo shareholders from being swayed by Microsoft talking points. First that Yahoo is testing Google's Adsense for monetizing about 3% of its ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 8, 2020 at 10:59 pm ET
David Enrich and Serena Ng, Wall Street Journal, report that CitiGroup, which was sitting on $43 billion worth of leveraged loans at the end of the fourth quarter, is now on the verge of unloading ... ( more)
From Money-Rx Blog - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 7, 2021 at 9:38 pm ET
In the latest sign that the tech sector in general and Silicon Valley in particular is feeling the pinch of reduced spending and an overall slowdown, yet another big employer slashed its workforce. The New ... ( more)
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