San Francisco Giants managing partner Magowan to retire
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Peter Magowan, managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants, will retire at the end of this season, t...

California Leads Way To Consumer Bust
The International Herald Tribune reports Californians leading the way to consumer bust.As it did when the housing bubble began to burst, Cal...

How to Default on Your Mortgage and Stay in Your House
Floyd Norristoday finds one of the worst bonds ever underwritten: a securitization,by Merrill Lynch (MER), of second-lien mortgages mostly o...

Interest rates too low?
Some observers say the Federal Reserve is once again over-stimulating the economy because real ... Click here to read more...

Petro-Canada new debt issue will underperform: Gimme Credit
On Sunday, EnCana Corp. announced its plan to split into two separate oil and natural gas firms. On Monday, Petro-Canada said it agreed to i...

A Swan By Any Other Color
John Authers has been blogging from a CFA conference in Vancouver this week and had this post the other day about Nassim Nicolas Taleb's pre...

Guesstimates on May 16, 8:00 am ET
Spiders - June S&P E-mini Futures: The market has nearly reached the 1430-40 zone. I think a break of 60 points or so will begin in a few da...

Icahn to Whip Yahoo's Struggling Horse into Shape
Technology and Energy sectors made the biggest gains leading the Nasdaq(up 1.5%) and the S&P (up 1%) Thursday as the May Optionsexpiration w...