Finance Roundtable
Finance Roundtable
The market forecasters and personal finance blogs complement the Economics Roundtable.
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May 13, 2008, 7:15 am, 291035
Andrew Morse files this dispatch from Tokyo.
The Japanese government officially ordered The Children’s Investment Fund to halt additional investment in one of the countrys main electric power companies, the latest step in a long-running — if slow-moving — confrontation.
London-based TCI, run by combative investor Christopher Hohn, has ...
May 13, 2008, 7:15 am, 291034
Deals of the Day includes all the major news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions and financing. For breaking deal news, turn to the WSJ’s Deals & Deal Makers page, or
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China's fight against inflation continues. China View reports:
China's central bank announced on Monday that it would raise the reserve requirement ratio for commercial banks by half a percentage point to curb excess liquidity and ease inflation.
This is the fourth such move this year, and it ...
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Buyers really seemed to be on a mission today as they took the market up from the open and pretty much never looked back. The one problem with today’s impressive price gains was that volume was on the light side. The big tests I see coming are the ...
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I had the opportunity to interview Boone Pickens in person about 18 months ago. A nice recent interview (video) with him from Bloomberg.
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Former American International Group head Maurice “Hank” Greenberg may be embittered and angry when it comes to the insurance giant he led for years. He may also be correct. Shares stumbled after Mr. Greenberg, the company’s largest ...
May 12, 2008, 7:15 pm, 290803
If the price of Clear Channel Communications deal does end up dropping the company’s board has to be thinking one thing: “Not this again.”
That’s because, if the board actually does want to accept a new price for Clear Channel, it would be the ...
May 12, 2008, 7:15 pm, 290804
Hewlett-Packard is in advanced talks to acquire Electronic Data Systems. Here’s a brief history on EDS.
In 1962, Ross Perot quit working as a salesman for IBM and founded Electronic Data Systems when he incorporated the company in the state of Texas for $1,000. Perot’s goal was ...
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