As a manager or leader, chances are that you will be given responsibility for a project at some time in your career. It could be a new computer system implementation, building a new facility, introducing a new piece of equipment

In St. Louis, Missouri, 10 securities regulators probing the auction-rate securities crisis arrived at Wachovia Securities today. The firm has reportedly failed to fully comply with requests related to the investigation, which is what prompted the onsite visit.The investigators, from

Class Action Complaint Alleging Violations of Federal Fair Standards Labor Act (FLSA) and of Oregon State Labor Laws Conditionally Certified as a Class Action as to FLSA Claims but Denied Without Prejudice as to State Law Claims Oregon Federal Court

With food, transport and mortgage costs rising it's more important than ever for families to save money. Here are a few tips to help you on your way.1) Don't buy bottled water. It costs a bomb. Did ...

A rally like todays was expected and also suggested as a possibility in yesterday's last paragraph. Let's face it; markets were oversold and ripe for some kind of bounce, large or small. And today's rally was supersized. Two of the

All of the news will be good, anything bad will be buried (or dismissed) as much as possible. Maybe. This could be the start of the next bear market rally, or not. Don't you just love that decisiveness! Financials certainly

How might we have identified and taken advantage of today's developing trend structure? Let's take a couple of perspectives. First, we, along with many other traders, have been expecting some sort of 'oversold technical bounce,' meaning odds were increasing for

Eaton Vance Insured Florida Municipal Bond Fund (AMEX: EIF) shares rose marginally this week after the board recently announced its intentions to merger EIF into the Eaton Vance Insured Municipal Bond Fund (AMEX: EIM) at a special meeting of shareholders

James Altucher has written about two potential wind power plays in a recent Financial Times article. The two stocks are AeroVironment ( AVAV ) and Otter Tail ( OTTR ). Yes, strange names, but Altucher mentions that these stocks interest

The Labor Department reported year-over-year "non-core inflation" reached almost a three-year high in June, rising from 10.1 percent in May to 13.3. percent. This level, for what is more commonly known as the "food and energy only" index, was surpassed

Today's update on consumer prices for June is one more bit of bad news on inflation. But maybe, just maybe, the inflationary momentum is about to break for a while. Before we dive into what may, or may not happen,

One month ago, in reference to Inbev's offer for Anheuser Busch, I wrote (see Ambush by Inbev? ): ...no way, ain't gonna happen. It was my opinion that the proposed takeover of Anheuser by Inbev would not be a successful

You got to love how media reports financial news in such skewed and manipulative way. There is nothing objective from such a headline. The headline celebrate Well Fargo's performance but there is nothing to celebrate. Its earnings are down some

The President's press conference yesterday was meant to buttress consumer and investor confidence. I will leave it to others to evaluate whether he was successful in this endeavor (0) . I will also ignore his disingenuous remarks concerning how allowing

The long anticipated bounce finally came yesterday, sending stocks sharply higher across the board. After opening flat, the major indices trended steadily higher throughout the entire session. This time, the bulls also retained control into the close. The S&P 500

Welcome to the latest offshoot of the subprime-mortgage debacle: A burgeoning U.S. pension-fund crisis. Since the global financial crisis struck last fall, the largest 1,500 U.S. public companies have lost a combined $280 billion from their pension funds. Assuming the

Wells Fargo Co. announced record $1.8 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2008 and raised their dividend by 10% putting to rest any fear investors had of the world's 5th largest bank showing signs of weakness. "Wells Fargo

The current credit crisis should be both a squeeze and a crunch, but it seems to have been neither in the euro area. This column explains why credit may become costlier or scarcer under current conditions and explores how European

Fosamax (alendronate sodium) is one of the all-time best-selling drugs for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis, with over $3 billion in U.S. sales last year. Merck listed ten patents in the Orange Book for Fosamax: U.S. Patent No. 4,621,077

You heard it here first, and now it is official. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake said, and I quote, that "Dollar intervention may be justified in Disorderly Times." In my Monday, July 14th "Journal" post, I said; Going forward the