Journalism is often called the first draft of history. The credit crisis has presented an unusually large share of professional scribes a chance to make their marks for posterity.
After a week of pointed verbal barbs, host Jon Stewart sat face-to-face with financial analyst Jim Cramer on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and continued the assault Thursday. Stewart blamed Cramer and cable network CNBC for being irresponsible cheerleaders in the lead-up to the stock market meltdown.
Welcome to the Olympics of investing. Unfortunately, you are not a spectator. The S&P 500 index of large-cap stocks has lost more than 40% since November 2007, and about $2 trillion in value has disappeared from investors' 401(k)s and IRAs, according to the Center for Retirement Research.
At 6 p.m. on the Monday evening after J.P. Morgan Chase offered $2 per share for Bear Stearns, CNBC headquarters pulsed. In two hours the news team would go live with a special documentary cobbled together that day. The script was nearly written, and someone had laid out a spread of pasta, salad, and chocolate-covered strawberries on a conference table.
Billionaire Warren Buffett said Monday that the U.S. economy is essentially in a recession even if it hasn't met the technical definition of one yet
U.S. stocks were poised to kick the week off with gains Monday, as hopes for a rescue of bond insurer Ambac kept investors upbeat.
Investing has a few simple rules that everyone knows are true yet most people find amazingly hard to live by. Diversify; don't chase hot returns; don't think you can outsmart the market. If you did nothing more and nothing less, your success would be all but ensured.
The stock market got a nice bump Wednesday following an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. On Thursday, the market gave back all those gains - and then some.
After years of watching stocks go almost straight up, it became pretty easy to forget how temperamental the market can be. Until mid-July, when the subprime mess gave Wall Street its worst scare in nearly five years, stocks were basking in the glow of the second-longest uninterrupted bull run in history.
On an October afternoon sticky enough to pass for midsummer, Rebecca Gomez, a veteran Fox News correspondent, and her co-star Cody Willard, a former hedge fund trader who bears a passing resemblance to Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, belly up to the bar at the Bull & Bear in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The regulars look up from their martinis when Gomez shouts, "Ten minutes, everyone. This is the first hit of FBN."
Journalism is often called the first draft of history. The credit crisis has presented an unusually large share of professional scribes a chance to make their marks for posterity.
After a week of pointed verbal barbs, host Jon Stewart sat face-to-face with financial analyst Jim Cramer on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and continued the assault Thursday. Stewart blamed Cramer and cable network CNBC for being irresponsible cheerleaders in the lead-up to the stock market meltdown.
Welcome to the Olympics of investing. Unfortunately, you are not a spectator. The S&P 500 index of large-cap stocks has lost more than 40% since November 2007, and about $2 trillion in value has disappeared from investors' 401(k)s and IRAs, according to the Center for Retirement Research.
At 6 p.m. on the Monday evening after J.P. Morgan Chase offered $2 per share for Bear Stearns, CNBC headquarters pulsed. In two hours the news team would go live with a special documentary cobbled together that day. The script was nearly written, and someone had laid out a spread of pasta, salad, and chocolate-covered strawberries on a conference table.
Billionaire Warren Buffett said Monday that the U.S. economy is essentially in a recession even if it hasn't met the technical definition of one yet
U.S. stocks were poised to kick the week off with gains Monday, as hopes for a rescue of bond insurer Ambac kept investors upbeat.
Investing has a few simple rules that everyone knows are true yet most people find amazingly hard to live by. Diversify; don't chase hot returns; don't think you can outsmart the market. If you did nothing more and nothing less, your success would be all but ensured.
The stock market got a nice bump Wednesday following an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. On Thursday, the market gave back all those gains - and then some.
After years of watching stocks go almost straight up, it became pretty easy to forget how temperamental the market can be. Until mid-July, when the subprime mess gave Wall Street its worst scare in nearly five years, stocks were basking in the glow of the second-longest uninterrupted bull run in history.
On an October afternoon sticky enough to pass for midsummer, Rebecca Gomez, a veteran Fox News correspondent, and her co-star Cody Willard, a former hedge fund trader who bears a passing resemblance to Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, belly up to the bar at the Bull & Bear in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The regulars look up from their martinis when Gomez shouts, "Ten minutes, everyone. This is the first hit of FBN."
It doesn't look to me as if there will be a recession - at least not a major recession - from the subprime problems or the credit crunch or any of that panic on Wall Street. But there are effects rippling all over the place right here and now, and some of them are not what you might expect (though some are).
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The overall U.S. banking system is in very good shape and well-capitalized, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair said Thursday.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said on Wednesday it would launch on Oct. 15 its new Fox Business Network, a cable channel that aims to rival General Electric Co.'s CNBC.
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Want to get a glimpse of hedge fund psychology and strategy? How to drive a stock down to make your short bet pay off? Then you've got to check out a particular video on TheStreet.com.
If you were scripting a Wall Street movie, what kind of characters would you include? Perhaps a perfectly tanned, hard-charging executive with a reputation for wearing his ambition on his sleeve, o...
SPECIAL MARKET REPORT: A strange feeling has taken over this section of the galaxy. What?!? You mean markets don't go up forever? You mean that small little bubbly markets like the Philippines and China (yes, China is a small stock market) can go up and down 8% or 9% in a single day? That before this crashette, the Dow had been setting records some 30 out of the past 95 trading days? Yes, yes and yes!.....Oh, and Alan Greenspan? Could you please put a sock in it? We simply don't need to hear from you now that you aren't Fed Chief...Shouldn't you have the good sense and grace to just not comment about the economy? You may not mind undermining your successor, but we do!....Memo to Ms. Market: Behave!
If you were scripting a Wall Street movie, what kind of characters would you include? Perhaps a perfectly tanned, hard-charging executive with a reputation for wearing his ambition on his sleeve, or a struggling CEO stuck in the shadow of his predecessor, or a glamour-puss anchorwoman who worked her way from cloakroom girl to worldwide celebrity, or a Saudi prince, or a billionaire media magnate plotting a new power play? Add a corporate jet and whispers of shenanigans at 35,000 feet, and you've got a certified blockbuster.
In a wide-ranging speech Thursday morning, News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch discussed plans for a new cable business channel, the growth opportunities for social networking site MySpace, the 2008 presidential race and why he liked "Borat" so much.
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I've noticed something about the financial advice that seems to register with Americans these days: It's getting louder.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. may be close to a deal with Time Warner Inc.'s cable division to carry a Fox News business channel that would rival General Electric's CNBC, according to a published report Monday.
CNBC is canceling "Dennis Miller" in an attempt to revive the network's struggling primetime, according to Variety.
In hindsight, NBC Universal's big bet on the Athens Olympics isn't looking so risky after all.
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While we do occasionally read books, we prefer book parties, so we crashed a slew of 'em recently. Most fascinating was Jim Rogers's soiree for Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor's Road Tr...
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America Online (a unit of my sainted employer, AOL Time Warner) is looking for a new competitive knockout in the broadband world. So are all its major competitors, like Microsoft and Yahoo. E-mail ...
The economy is humming again, and it looks like we're finally into a new bull market. But I'm confident that this time around we're going to do things differently. The Enron debacle and two consecu...
"Who Can You Trust?" asks a special report on CNBC, and most other business media have raised the same question. Trust is the topic of the moment, thanks to Enron, Andersen, Global Crossing, Tyco, ...
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A former member of the Indian Parliament, Jain now runs a news and current affairs satellite TV channel that reaches 26 million homes in India, as well as 36 other Asian countries.
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Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey will be rereleased on New Year's Eve. With the help of CNBC's Richard Hart, FORTUNE compares Kubrick's vision of 2001 with life as the year approaches.
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In the small town of Mediaville, Howard Kurtz is the chief of police. The longtime media reporter for the Washington Post, Kurtz has fashioned a career--quite a nice career, actually--out of exposi...
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My sister called me for investing advice a few days ago. How important was it to her, I asked, to beat the market? "I don't care about that," she said. "All I want is to pay for my kids' college an...
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Jack Welch, CEO of GE, on the network that will soon become his most profitable media property:
Okay, he understands the markets. He radiates enthusiasm. He's got presence.
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