Measuring the Credit Crisis in Markit Press Releases

Markit's CDX credit-derivative index was meant to "roll" -- be updated with the most up-to-date set of credits -- on September 22. The roll was first delayed by one week, and then, in a vote on Saturday, was delayed...

Sep 29 2008

Déjà Vu All Over Again at Sundance

David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young rolled into the SKY360 by Delta-Park City lounge on Main Street today, Andrea Chalupa reports from Park City, Utah. The group is at the Sundance Film Festival promoting their documentary CSNY...

Jan 24 2008

Easiest Way forTerrorists To Cripple North America

That would be: bring down the Blackberry e-mail network. When it went down on Monday, you'd have thought someone had cut off the food supply. Froze up the presidential campaigns, hit about 8 million users, and generated some 600 media...

Feb 12 2008

BRICs: Over Half of the Top 25 Billionaires

Forbes has released its 2008 ranking of the world's billionaires; it now takes $19.3 billion to crack the top 25. What jumps out at me? Indians account for four of the top ten; Russians account for seven of the...

Mar 06 2008

Price Restraint

One-liner of the day comes (natch) from Tim Price: To be fair to Stan O’Neal, when he promised in December that Merrill Lynch’s $1.3 billion acquisition of subprime mortgage lender First Franklin would provide “revenue velocity”, he didn’t explicitly...

Nov 01 2007

Daily Brew: How To Put Your Computer To Work When You're Not Using It...

DiscoverMagazine.com: Whether it's untangling the mysteries of the universe or developing a drug to combat H.I.V., here's how to put your computer to work when you're not using it. RetroSabotage.com: Pick-up a quick game of PacMan or Space Invaders. LeMonde.fr:...

Feb 26 2008

Lauder, Faster, Funnier

Estee Lauder CEO and founder's grandson William Lauder uses an otherwise demure Q&A with the WSJ's Ellen Byron to exercise his irritation with the provincial tendencies of the analyst community. "There's a generic frustration that I have when I talk...

Aug 20 2007

NFL Commissioner Goodell Talks of International Goals

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is thinking global and looking forward Sunday's first American football foray beyond North America. ``We're No. 1 in the U.S. but our future success depends in a large part on our ability to globalize,'' Goodell said...

Oct 25 2007

Get Ready for All the "D'oh" Puns

Time to see if all Fox's marketing magic for The Simpsons Movie will pay off. The Hollywood Reporter is predicting that the TV family's first big-screen appearance "should be rolling in plenty of d'oh" (gee, I wonder how many times...

Jul 27 2007

Get Ready for Lots of "D'oh" Puns

Time to see if all Fox's marketing magic for The Simpsons Movie will pay off. The Hollywood Reporter is predicting that the TV family's first big-screen appearance "should be rolling in plenty of d'oh" (gee, I wonder how many times...

Jul 27 2007

High Times in Amsterdam for M&A Bankers

Is Tulip mania sweeping the Netherlands again? Private equity funds and international conglomerates are practically tripping over themselves to pay top dollar for Dutch companies. The French food giant Danone announced today it plans to buy Netherlands-based Numico, a large...

Jul 09 2007

Grand Theft Auto Parts

Platinum cracked $2,000 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That's great news for mining companies, refiners, traders — and car thieves. All across North America, from Sacramento to Montreal, thieves have been hacking catalytic converters off parked...

Feb 14 2008