Don’t Blame the Shorts! SEC ‘Witch Hunt’ Misses Real Cause of Market Ills

On Tuesday, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox launched a two-pronged attack on the financial crisis, which occurred under his watch and with little response until now.Unfortunately, Cox’s efforts are not only too late, but badly executed.First,

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A-courtin’ we will go

Like a bad soap opera, the Internet storyline is getting more and more convoluted. The tale so far: Microsoft Corp, spurned by Yahoo Inc, is courting Time Warner Inc to allow a union with Internet division AOL. But Yahoo, which turned its back on Microsoft’s $47.5 billion bid, also wants AOL’s hand. These talks have […]

Wild Times on Wall Street: What Now for Investors?

“You can’t drop 2000 Dow points [since early May] and not expect some bounce,” Barry Ritholtz, CEO and director of equity research at FusionIQ, said Tuesday as the Dow closed below 11,000 for the first time since July 2006.With the

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He said, she said

If you’re getting lost in all the nasty rhetoric between Yahoo, Microsoft and Carl Icahn, here’s our primer on what the fuss is all about.
They’re trading insults (again) after the latest deal talks broke down (again). Microsoft’s top lawyer is pressing the antitrust issue in Yahoo’s Google search partnership in Washington today, while Yahoo’s top […]

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