BHP Billiton's confirmation that the world has moved on over the last year, leaving it now with more projects in its pipeline than cash flow can support, has the pundits again pondering whether it is not time for an increased capital return ...
BHP Billiton's confirmation that the world has moved on over the last year, leaving it now with more projects in its pipeline than cash flow can support, has the pundits again pondering whether it is not time for an increased capital return ...
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (MarketWatch) — Those who advocate more inflation as a way of boosting economic growth here in the United States are playing with fire.
The pundits, the politicians, and the shareholders have opined about J.P. Morgan's $2.3 billion trading loss. Now the lawsuits are coming. Two shareholders suits were filed in New York late yesterday, accusing the bank of grossly ...
Nobody ran for president in 1988. No, we haven't forgotten George Bush and Michael Dukakis, or even Bob Dole, Al Gore, Ron Paul and the other also-rans. "The 'Nobody for President' campaign came to the White House" on Election Day, Reuters ...
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Facebook just joined a “troubled club,” warns the Economist. Now it’s just another “endangered public company.”
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — We have to talk about something between now and the fall, so a debate on whether Mitt Romney’s experience in private equity is relevant for being president may seem as good a way as any to while away the time.
LONDON—Words can barely describe the jaw-dropping season finale staged by England's Premier League last weekend, but that didn't stop every pundit, Twitter wag and pub crawler in Britain from searching many beers into Sunday night for new ...
The politicians, pundits, and analysts will run with the political football that is today's jobs report until you're ready to throw a brick at your TV, but the bottom line comes down to two key numbers, and they're ones we've been harping ...
There's never just one cockroach, goes the old Wall Street saying. Troubles rarely are confined to a lone incident at a single institution. So it seems with bank stocks. It has been six trading days since a major negative "event" and yet the ...
Stop the presses: Greece can actually print its own money. Shares of De La Rue are up 0.8% today amid speculation that the Basingstoke, England-based money printer may soon get a windfall from printing swaths of new drachma bills for Greece ...
When the Washington Nationals promoted 19-year-old Bryce Harper to the majors, pundits immediately began to question whether they called him up too quickly. After all, he was hitting just .250 at Triple-A.
With economists and commentators perennially pushing the idea of more Keynesian stimulus in the West (and China—see above), it's worth looking in again on a country where this experiment has been running for several decades. Japan last week ...
Not even Bob Dylan, who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29 at the White House, can fully explain why he has been so highly decorated relatively late in his life.
President Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage this week propelled the controversial social issue back into the national spotlight, just six months before the November elections. But while politicians and pundits debate the ethical and ...