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REPORT: An Email Chain Soliciting Donations For Mitt Romney Made Some Credit...

Well, this is awkward. An e-mail chain circulating within Credit Suisse soliciting donations for presidential candidate Mitt Romney was sent to foreign staffers that were not American, some in the...

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ATTORNEY: Here's The Real Story Of That Morgan Stanley Banker Charged With...

One of today's biggest stories on Wall Street was the news that Morgan Stanley's co-head of fixed income capital markets has been arrested and charged with a hate crime for allegedly threatening and...

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MOODY'S DOWNGRADES GREECE TO C FROM Ca

Moody's just downgraded Greece's sovereign debt rating to C from Ca.  This puts the debt-laden country's rating deeper into junk status. "Today's rating decision was prompted by the recently announced...

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UBS: Here Are 4 Reasons Why We Just Boosted Our S&P 500 Target By 150 Points

Last December, UBS's Jonathan Golub issued a 2012 year-end S&P 500 price target of 1,325, making him one of the more bearish strategists surveyed by Business Insider.  At the time, the S&P was...

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WHITNEY TILSON: Berkshire Hathaway Could Surge 70% In 12 Months (BRKA, BRKB)

Whitney Tilson, the brains behind T2 Partners, is bullish on Berkshire Hathaway, the holding company headed by Warren Buffett. In a recent presentation, Tilson laid out an investment thesis arguing...

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JIM O'NEILL: These Are The Most Reliable Economic Indicators In The World

Jim O'Neill is the legendary economist from Goldman Sachs who coined the acronym BRICs.  So, it's no surprise that whenever people meet him, they want to talk about economics. During a recent trip to...

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The 10 Fastest Growing Companies In The S&P 500 (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, CAT, HAL,...

This is a useful chart from Goldman's latest monthly equity chartbook. It ranks the fastest growing companies in the S&P 500 (excluding financials and utilities) based on estimated 2012 revenue...

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A Quick Guide To Where Europe Stands After An Incredibly Important Week

Markets have been moving with much less regard to headlines than they were just a few months ago. But regardless of the fact that these events went under-reported, this week in Europe was monumental....

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10 Cities Where Homebuyers Can Get Steals On Short Sales

Pre-foreclosure sales (short sales) accounted for 10 percent of all home sales in the fourth quarter of 2011 according to the latest data from RealtyTrac.  Short sale volume was up 15 percent from a...

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The 11 Most Interesting Pieces Of Wall Street Research We Read This Week

We thought we had it all figured out before this week started.  We were wrong. The top minds in the investment business offered some novel analysis, broke conventional wisdom, and even opened our eyes...

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SocGen: Get Ready For The Best Jobs Report We've Seen In 6 Years

SocGen economist Brian Jones has snatched the crown for the most bullish analyst on Wall Street, at least when it comes to this Friday's jobs report. He predicts a 275K non-farm payroll gain, and an...

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Niels Jensen On The Coming 'Protein Bomb' And The Incredible Case For Buying...

In the latest version of the Absolute Return Letter, investor Niels Jensen makes the case for buying farm land, an asset class you've heard a lot of people go bullish on over the last few years. In...

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The Last Week In The Eurozone In 6 Charts

Read more posts on Global Macro Monitor > Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »See Also:TOO SOON: Der Spiegel Published This Extremely Offensive...

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BILLIONAIRE: All I Know About Investing In Startups I Learned Playing Poker

A billionaire investing in Silicon Valley startups told to me the other day that he invests using the same strategy he uses to play poker, specifically Texas Hold'em. In Texas Hold'em, each player...

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This Is The 'Black Swan' That Could Destroy Your Investment In Farmland

It seems pretty hard to argue with investing in farmland. The story is so simple. The richer countries get, the more meat they eat. And regardless of whether China is due for some slowdown, the long...

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Facebook Hires Three More Wall Street Banks -- Gleeful Bankers Awash In IPO...

Facebook Inc. hired Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse Group AG and Citigroup Inc. to work on its $5 billion initial public offering and give it access to more credit, a person with direct knowledge of...

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Goldman Delivers The Bad News On Oil Prices That You Didn't Want To Hear

Despite the rise in oil and gas prices, we'd say that the overwhelming consensus among Wall Street analysts is that it's not enough to do too much damage to the economy. We rounded up a lot of...

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APPLE: Stop Ragging On Us For Making iPhones In China -- We've Created...

(If you count the UPS dudes who deliver iPhones in the mail...) SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Apple, which relies on Asian contractors to manufacture its iPhones and iPads, said in a report released Friday that...

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MAULDIN: Europe Is Now Creating Big Unintended Consequences That Will Carry...

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Apple's App Store Hits 25 Billion Downloads

That's up from 15 billion last July.  So Apple is averaging about 1.4 billion downloads a month. That's a lot of downloads, especially considering that the store only launched about 5 years ago....

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