Finance Roundtable

Google has set aside $200 million to deal with copyright complaints about YouTube. The same day, they sent a cease-and-desist order to a site allowing users to pilfer Youtube videos that Youtube users had pilfered from legitimate sources. They need to make up their minds. Since they ...

Not only is the LSE too small to present a serious threat to the NYSE, but seven firms, all traded on the NYSE, are forming a trading platform to compete with it and the other European exchanges. I guess the years of skyrocketing share prices for the exchanges finally ...

Please, please give a big "So, what?" to the news that George Soros' managers are adding lots of equity positions. Look at the roster of stocks they've added -- alternating between bellwethers and stalwarts without a single original idea or outsize position among them. These guys are closet indexers ...

Carl Icahn (who according to the book is actually a pretty interesting guy) has raised his stake in Take Two Entertainment (makers of the once-controversial Grand Theft Auto series and the freshly-controversial Bully).

This should be interesting. Icahn is proud to admit that he's "

Kyoto signatories have a problem: If everyone signed the treaty, they'd all suffer roughly equally -- but if there are holdouts, those holdouts have an automatic incentive to engage in the same high-pollution activities the treaty tries to prevent. France has a solution: Slap a tariff on goods from ...

This Wall Street Journal article ($) is a few days behind the curve on the new collaborative book being published by Pearson, MIT, and Wharton. You can join in on their site, but don't expect it to be any good: It's been 395 years since a ...

TheStreet.com is running a ten-year Jim Cramer retrospective -- seven pages worth of what was up-to-the-minute a decade ago. I definitely haven't read all of it (or much of it, really -- just auditing to see if his columns match his book). But one column reminded me of ...

Remember Chinese Math? "If the market is $X billion, and we get just Y%, we'll be rich!" It's happening again. In China, of all places: 24/7 Wall St. notes that Toyota, Ford, and GM have all decided that they're going to beat the competition by raising market share. ...

Red Hat, the edgy open-source software maker, is moving to the New York Stock Exchange. According to the expensive, detailed WSJ version of the story:

"It's a very efficient market," said Mr. Peters. He added that he supported NYSE CEO John Thain's move to more electronic ...

The Tradesports Maven (just added to my blogroll, along with Midas Oracle, because I'm on a politics-and-gambling binge today) asks: What affect does not splitting a stock have on a company's brand equity?

I suspect there isn't a quantitative change in perceived value; it's mostly qualitative. ...