A More Perfect Union
Americans aren't well served by the current process of presidential selection.
How to Break Up the Banks
A Barron's interview with Roberta Karmel, a former SEC commissioner and current professor at Brooklyn Law School. What's the best way to cope with modern financial giants?
At Long Last, Facebook
Facebook's shares could get a pop at the IPO, but as Google's experience shows, it's hard to maintain investor excitement over time, even with strong growth.
A Market List for Seekers of Calm
Bespoke Investment Group has produced a list of stocks ranked in order of nonvolatility over the past decade.
Just Don’t Lose It!
More than ever, investors want advisors and money managers to preserve their capital. So how can you make your wealth grow?
Stocks in the Spotlight Friday
Genworth, Sony and Constant Contact rose. Estee Lauder fell.
Whose Green Stuff to Fund Green Energy?
Using taxpayer dollars to support companies or prop up whole industries is a bad idea. Instead, we should let free markets do the hard and risky work of deciding how capital is invested.
Transaction Processors That Can Pay Off
Barrington Research likes TNS, Official Payments and others.
Micron CEO Appleton Killed In Plane Crash
Micron Technology CEO Steve Appleton Folks, some sad news: Steve Appleton, 51, chief executive of flash memory chip maker Micron Technology (MU), and a tech industry legend, has been killed in a plane crash in Boise, Idaho, the company announced this afternoon. The company’s shares have been halted. The last trade indication was up 23 cents,...
Is Weyerhaeuser Out of the Woods?
The struggling timber and homebuilding company beat top- and bottom-line expectations for the fourth quarter, cheering investors.
AT&T: America Movil ‘Pre-Paid iPhone’ Could Be Trouble, Says BTIG
BTIG Research’s Walter Piecyk this afternoon returns to a familiar debate, the virtues of vices of a pre-paid Apple (AAPL) iPhone, if one were to ever exist, and what it might mean for for the carrier market. Apple doesn’t officially sell a pre-paid iPhone with any carriers, but you can buy an iPhone at full...
RSH: Morgan Stanley Says Hold; Double-Edged Sword of iPhone, Tablets
Shares of Radio Shack (RSH) are up 3 cents at $7.32 this morning despite receiving a downgrade to Equal Weight from Overweight from Morgan Stanley’s David Gober. The cut in rating follows the company’s warning on Monday that it will report much-deeper-than-expected Q4 EPS because of a deterioration in trends in its business of reselling...
