$11 Trillion Wipeout: Wall Street’s Year-and-a-Half of Dangerous Living

In a fitting end to another desultory week on Wall Street, the stock market did its best to frustrate everyone Friday; first, it failed to sustain an early bounce on not-worse-than-feared jobs numbers, then avoided the cathartic “whoosh” down ma

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Valley Buzz: Bill Gates Sr, Stalling Android, More Deals in 2009 and Is Craig Newmark Running an Online Brothel?

Most everyone in Silicon Valley is still talking about Facebook and Twitter and
Twitter and Facebook. But I managed to find a few other buzz-worthy topics for
those of you who just don’t really care about whether techies are
broadcasting What-

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Global Economy Slumps: U.S. ‘Best Looking Horse in the Glue Factory’

Friday’s dismal jobs report is another reminder of the grim state of the U.S. economy. If there’s any saving grace for Americans, it’s that many economies around the world are in far worse shape, says

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Market to Obama: Put Bad Banks Out of Their (and Our) Misery

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then, or so the saying goes. But this stock market seems unable to sustain any kind of rebound, even after hitting 12-year lows yesterday and with the “excuse” the jobs numbers weren’t worse than feared.

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Economy in ‘Free-Fall’: Unemployment Rate Surges to 8.1%, Highest in 25 Years

Another 651,000 U.S. jobs were lost in February, the Labor Department said today, bringing the total number of jobs lost since the recession began in December 2007 to 4.4 million. The unemployment rate jumped to 8.1%, it’s the highest level in 25 years. .

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Despite woes, Citigroup jumps in league tables

Citigroup may have a $1 stock price, but at least it’s No. 1 in the league tables for mergers and acquisitions.
    
According to data from Thomson Reuters, Citigroup jumped to the top spot among advisers for global M&A, surpassing Goldman Sachs, which held that place at the end of last year. Citigroup ended 2008 at No. […]

Whole Foods selling 13 stores in settlement

Natural and organic food grocer Whole Foods will sell 13 stores as part of a settlement that ends an antitrust battle with U.S. regulators over its acquisition of rival Wild Oats.
Is your store on the list?  

7133 N. Oracle Rd., Tucson, AZ
8688 E. Raintree Dr., Scottsdale, AZ
2584 Baseline Rd., Boulder, CO        
1651 Broadway St., Boulder, CO        
3180 New Center […]