WINNERS STEVE JOBS Apple boss sees shares jump 8.4% in week on strong quarterly profits, sales of new Macs. JIMMY CAYNE Bear Stearns CEO gets shot in arm from $1 billion investment from China's Citic Group. MARK ZUCKERBERG Tech wunderkind aces key...
WITH Halloween just a few days away, it's time to reflect on what a ghoulish year it has been for some investors. Granted, the market averages paint a picture of a decidedly auspicious and calm market, with the Dow Jones industrials up better than...
Dear John: I was wondering if one of the differences between the stock market in 1987 and now is that the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have implemented trading halts to prevent continued selling. If there is a panic similar to Oct. '87, do you...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is an even richer rich man today after selling a sliver of his company to Microsoft for $240 million - valuing the closely held social-networking startup at a whopping $15 billion. Not too bad for a company that has...
A massive new erosion in the New York Stock Exchange's lucrative equity trading business to cheaper and faster competitors like Nasdaq - some 60 percent of volume is no longer traded by the floor, a jaw-dropping record - will force the Big Board to...
CHARLES GASPARINO, in his new book "King of the Club," reveals the sensational backroom wheeling and dealing of Wall Street's most powerful players as they picked sides and settled feuds over Dick Grasso's $190 million compensation package. A...
Even as Stan O'Neal ponders the worst weekend of his Merrill Lynch career, colleagues say he could have avoided his ouster crisis just by listening to top executives - instead of firing them when they spoke up. The Merrill board met yesterday to...
Nobu, the trendy sushi chain, is making a heavy push into the film festival food business as a prelude to an expected full-fledged catering business, The Post has learned. The eatery, with Robert DeNiro as a part-owner and with 17 locations from...
