Online game-maker Zynga went public Friday, raising $1 billion in the biggest Internet IPO since Google in 2004. The …
Markets
Are We Entering the Next Recession?
Stocks, they are a’ tumbling…again. Asian markets plummeted overnight, after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 3.7% Thursday. The question on everyone’s mind: is this really the start of a new recession, or is the market oversold?
The fact is, even the world’s savviest investors don’t seem to know how to play the latest …
Is the Stock Market Finally Bouncing Back?
The Federal Reserve provided some clarity to the financial markets, but investors aren't out of the woods yet.
Derivatives to the Rescue? How ‘Betting Against’ the U.S. Could Prevent A Default Crisis
Wednesday’s plunge in the markets signaled that the impasse over the debt ceiling, if it continues, will eventually trigger a substantial market sell-off. Until now, there had been surprising complacency among investors, who seemed to assume that after all the noise and haggling there would, of course, be a deal. That belief itself …
Will Japan’s quake rock the world economy?
After a stress-inducing day on Wall Street, investors have finally woken to the potential dangers to the world economic order posed by the giant earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The Japanese economy is the world’s third-largest, and its companies play important roles in everything from heavy industry to high-tech to finance. There is …
