Finance Roundtable
Finance Roundtable
The market forecasters and personal finance blogs complement the Economics Roundtable.
Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
July 23, 2008, 9:14 am, 323961
After carefully reviewing the current status of supply and demand for crude oil, thoughtful minds might reasonably conclude that the price of crude oil has peaked.
For starters, airlines are going bankrupt left and right, and the level of route reductions the industry is taking ...
July 21, 2008, 9:14 am, 322609
The world is coming to an end. We know that already.
But for a world that is coming to an end, a lot of companies are doing remarkably well. The current crop of earnings reports has been nowhere near as bad ...
July 17, 2008, 11:14 am, 320984
Street Gears Up for Short Changes
Brokerages Parse New Rules' Details; The 'Naked' No-No
The Federal crackdown on short selling is causing a scramble on Wall Street, with brokerage firms racing to implement new controls before the rules take effect on Monday.
July 15, 2008, 9:14 am, 319625
Thomas Jefferson would blush, or at least roll over in his grave.
Seems the authorities are shifting the responsibility for individual actions from corporate CEOs and their Boards of Directors squarely where it belongs: rumor-mongering traders.
So ...
July 11, 2008, 9:14 am, 318056
Help Fight America's Oil Crisis
That’s the headline of an email we recently received from the folks at Northwest Airlines.
In fact, it was signed by the CEO of Northwest, Douglas Steenland, so we knew it must be important.
Steenland ...
July 9, 2008, 9:14 am, 316951
“Wind power is ... clean, it's renewable. It's everything you want. And it's a stable supply of energy,” Pickens told CNN in May. “It's unbelievable that we have not done more with wind.”
—T. Boone Pickens, quoted by CNBC, July 8, 2008
July 6, 2008, 9:14 am, 315576
BP Sues TNK-BP Russia Partners
Action Is to Recover $370 Million Debt; Venture Rift Widens
By GREGORY L. WHITE and GUY CHAZAN
July 5, 2008; Page B6
MOSCOW -- Fighting back amid a deepening rift within its TNK-BP Ltd. joint venture, ...
July 2, 2008, 9:14 am, 314284
The least helpful call you will get today is so unhelpful that, young as the day might be, we think there is no chance it will be superseded by anything even less helpful as the morning wears on.
This particularly unhelpful call comes from ...
June 28, 2008, 1:14 pm, 312619
The following email arrived this morning, from the Obama campaign:
On Monday, everyone will be watching our fundraising totals to see if we can compete with the McCain campaign.
This month is the first test of our grassroots fundraising strategy ...
June 27, 2008, 9:14 am, 312214
Negative perceptions of Vista are one of the most pressing problems facing Mr. Ballmer. Although money rolls in as the software ships on new computers, many corporate users have been slow to adopt Vista.
—The Wall Street Journal
Anybody catch the faulty premise contained ...