Closing Bell

William Hunt may have won the race to be the new year’s first subprime victim after State Street announced his departure as head of asset management, together with a $279 million... 2008-01-07

Business Monitor International’s intention in the New Year is to expand this publication to incorporate M&A activity beyond the US. There are a number of reasons for this. Not... 2007-12-31

2007-12-17

Mr Bush to the rescue. As US home foreclosures rose to a record in Q307, the President has unveiled a plan to stem the problem.

Just when the talk was about a US$100.00/bbl oil price and a US$1000.00/oz gold price, both markets look set to close the month on a weaker footing.

Bearish sentiment towards the dollar has reached extreme levels, and rightly so, says our sister publication Emerging Markets Monitor (EMM), especially when the greenback’s value... 2007-11-26

The last three words from the title of the classic buyout industry book, "Barbarians At The Gate," have been so overused, one wonders whether authors Bryan Burrough and John Helyar... 2007-11-19

Come January Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" might see a ratings challenge on Thursday nights courtesy of MOJO, "the high definition cable channel geared toward affluent men," according... 2007-11-12

In Charles Dickens' Bleak House, the Court of Chancery appeared as an excruciatingly boring level of hell, a place where attorneys stretched arguments across years, and cases crushed... 2007-11-05

Analysts pour over mounds of dense data before they decide on their highly-coveted ratings.