Investment

Budget Battles

  • Why Bill Miller Turned Bullish on Apple

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    A year ago, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the biggest, brightest, shiniest stock in the market, with analysts competing to boost their price targets to $700 a share and even higher, forming what some Wall...

  • This $14M Diamond Is An Investor's Best Friend

    By Robert Frank, CNBC

    Between 2001 and today, stock prices are up about 30 percent. Diamonds, however—at least certain huge diamonds – have done far better. Sothebys yesterday sold a 74.79 carat white diamond for $14.2...

  • Drama over Debt Paper Changes Nothing…and Everything

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Few economic papers ever stirred up Washington as much as the 2010 analysis of sovereign debt by Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart. It met with incredible acclaim and fears of American decline. The...

  • Suspicious Options Trades Draw Regulators’ Attention

    By Reuters

    The speed of the crackdown on a lucrative options bet, combined with successful prosecutions of insider trading rings, suggested that regulators were quickly jumping on any suspicious activity.

  • Goldman Sachs Bests JP Morgan in Investment Banking

    By Matthew Zeitlin, The Hamilton Project

    For big banks so far this earnings season, the more investment banking they do, the better. There’s no stronger example of this than the world’s premiere investment bank, Goldman Sachs