Critics of credit reporting agencies and Wall Street analysts say their failure earlier this year to properly warn investors about the possible extend of the subprime mortgage meltdown tainted the 14,164.53 record high of the Dow Jones industrial...
Two young hedge-fund managers have launched an equity-mutual fund targeted at twentysomethings, which they are promoting like a trendy nightclub -including a steep cover charge. The duo, former ZBI Equities research analyst James Perkins and...
Investors looking to profit alongside Warren Buffett from the falling US dollar have two relatively new products to turn to - the ProFunds Falling US Dollar fund (FDPIX) and the PowerShares DB ETF US Dollar Index Bearish Fund (UDN). Buffett, an...
RON Darling, current Mets SNY announcer and former star pitcher for the team in its World Champion season in 1986, has signed a book deal with the Knopf imprint of Random House, Inc. to write a how-to guide to pitching. Darling was 15-6 for the...
Looking for a new tech-stock hot spot? Believe it or not, one of your best options is in Israel. For all of the chaos in the region, Israel's financial community is remarkably solid - its TS-100 Index, an S&P 500-like index of stocks trading on...
'Tis the season for holiday parties, for office camaraderie and for glad tidings. Alas, it's also the season for too many cocktails, dancing with a lampshade on your head and forgetting your laptop at the party or on the train going home. Oops...
If you build it they will come - at least that's how it used to be in the residential New York real estate market. Now, with a housing slump sweeping the nation and the devalued dollar making the U.S. a bargain for Europeans and Asians, savvy...
KOHLER, Wis. - For clients of Scott Kelly's architecture firm, seeing - and going - are believing. His Philadelphia company urges its customers to install high-efficiency toilets, which use 20 percent less water than the previous generation of...
WINNERS STEPHEN RIGGIO Barnes & Noble CEO books strong sales and profit gains for the latest quarter. WARREN SPECTOR Former Bears Stearns copresident could get as much as $23M in compensation after creating a summer debacle. RICHARD BREEDEN Activist...
Dear John: I have a 457 retirement plan from which I draw monthly to supplement my pension. It is in a stable income fund. But after seeing the market drop about 1,000 points this month I have been thinking about moving some of my money to a more...
