Summer residents of the Hamptons did their fair share of gambling in recent years: Bigger and riskier bets on all those goodies Wall Street fashioned and sold. But another version of the pastime may

Editor's Note: Jonathan Tholen graduated from Luther College in 2004 in accounting. He's currently employed by US Bank as an auditor of the Corporate Treasury and Global Payments Services. Although I

I hope everyone had a nice, long, peaceful weekend. It did go a little too quickly, though, didn’t it? Not too much happened in the equity markets in Asia overnight. The Hang Seng was closed on

Kevin Depew's Five Things You Need to Know to stay ahead of the pack on Wall Street: Threads of Hope... Triple Crown Hope & Optimism... No Day for Casual Fans... Hope: Not a Viable Invest

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co

South Africa’s electricity provider, Eskom, was given permission to raise prices another 13.3 percent (starting in July) after already being given permission to raise prices 14.2 percent, for a

Social networking is moving from infancy to adolescence, as the market landscape evolves and competing business models vie for superiority.Venture capitalists are betting LinkedIn can thrive in an inc

Hello from New York where, whatever "life-related" challenges I might be presented with today, at least I'm not FedEx (FDX). In addition to FDX's much publicized earnings warning this mornin