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Filed under: Competitive strategy, Scandals, Columns, EntrepreneursThis post is part of our Money Face-Offs feature. Let us know who you think comes out ahead in this head-to-head match-up, and check out our other Money Face-Off posts.Did you ever wonder what it would be like to slip into the world of the mega-famous? Right now I'm going to give you a chance to think about that. Imagine that you get to spend your days rubbing elbows with Hollywood's A-list elite. Now here's the angle, imagine that circumstances have caused you to be put in a serious dilemma, and you are now required to choose a female pop-star business partner. You have been given only two choices, either Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan. The choice is yours and there are ...
Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: Recent declines in bond yields along with equity market uncertainty have caused investors to seek out dividend paying stocks.Complete Story »
Earnings for the financial sector begin next week, with FNM reporting on Monday before the open.Complete Story »
Himanshu Pandya submits: Amazing turn of events for First Solar Thursday. Goldman Sachs initiated coverage on First Solar (FSLR) with a ‘Buy’ rating and six month price target of $125.Complete Story »
The Unknown Professor submits: We're talking (briefly) about option payoffs in class this week. So, I was excited when I came across this piece titled "Why are Put Options So Expensive?", by Oleg Bondarenko of the University if Illinois at Chicago. In it, he provides some very interesting figures.Complete Story »
Filed under: Management, Competitive strategy, China, Viacom (VIA), News Corp'B' (NWS), EntrepreneursThis post is part of our Money Face-Off feature. Let us know who you think comes out ahead in this head-to-head match-up, and check out our other Money Face-Off posts.These two moguls run huge media empires with what seems like very personal involvement. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp'B' (NYSE: NWS) is working his family into the picture, sometimes. However, Sumner Redstone, Chairman of Viacom (NYSE: VIA), is working his family out, always. He seems to have a trap door at the top of his empire, like a haunted house, or a not so fun-house. You work your way to the top and then a trap doors opens in the floor dropping you out.Rupert seems to have a plan ...
Jerry Marks (AutoRetailStocks.com) submits: The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.Source: Bill Gates, Harvard commencement ceremony June 7, 2007Complete Story »
Jerry Marks (AutoRetailStocks.com) submits: Many board members award themselves (yes, that's how it's done) gold-plated pay packages even though they regularly play hooky in ways that would get the average worker canned in a heartbeat. More than 520 directors from Equilars database of about 4,000 companies missed 25% or more of their board meetings in the last two years. Most of those meetings last just two days.Source: Michael Brush, MSN Money, December 16, 2005 "Pay soars in the board room"One of the things I said with this quarter's rankings was that I need to do a better job understanding the board of directors of each of the companies in the auto retail stocks index. Complete Story »
For all of the attention that BGI, Vanguard, PowerShares and even ProShares, Rydex and Claymore have been getting lately, SSgA— with still the largest ETF and second-largest total ETF assets BY FAR—has quietly built a stable of world-class products.Complete Story »
Filed under: General Motors (GM), Motorola (MOT), American Express (AXP), NIKE, Inc'B' (NKE), Electronic Arts (ERTS)This post is part of our Money Face-Offs feature. Let us know who you think comes out ahead in this head-to-head match-up, and check out our other Money Face-Off posts.Celebrities -- they're more than superior human beings, they're money-making machines. If these celebrities were stocks, which would be the shrewd buy?Tiger Woods, unarguably the world's greatest golfer, or David Beckham, the world's best-know soccer player -- in which would you invest?The industry that is Tiger has shown consistent growth in earnings, with PGA winnings in his first 13 years as a pro exceeding $70 million. His presence in a golf tournament boosts television ratings by 50% or more. He almost single-handedly established Nike ...
