Stocks shrugged off a surprising decline in consumer confidence from the University of Michigan (or was it Ohio?) to finish higher Friday on light volume and end a second successive winning week. Dis

Editor's Note: The following was posted in real time on our premium Buzz & Banter (click for a free trial). It's being shared here for the benefit of the Minyanville community.Greetings from New

Snap those towels, boys, because Procter & Gamble (PG) will soon slap “Official Locker Room Product of the NFL” on about a dozen products, including Old Spice, Gillette, Febreze, Head

"Then did Ur-Nammu the mighty warrior, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, by the might of Nanna, lord of the city, and in accordance with the true word of Utu, establish equity in the land; he

Larry Brooks, who hangs his hat at the New York Post and is the best hockey writer in town, has suggested that next season’s NHL outdoor game should be played in Yankee Stadium, or on the M

Minyanville Morning MemoOne to Watch: Attention shifts from New York’s Apollo Theatre to Apollo Group’s (APOL) earnings. The educator will come out with its third quarter results after th

Casey Stengel was the first manager of the New York Mets -- a team that began as a Robert Moses public-service effort and remains more or less the same thing today. Stengel’s prior managerial s

Goldman Sachs (GS) hopes to make a down payment on its freedom. The Wall Street firm plans to raise $5 billion in a stock offering and use the net proceeds to repay half of a $10 billion government b

1. A Beautiful SchemeBad Real Estate Bets May Lead More Local Banks to Fail- USA Today, April 9, 2009, "How Big Gambles Took Down Small Banks"That's the grim headline screaming across the t

The saga of American International Group (AIG) reads like a bad rewrite of Alice In Wonderland. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner vows that Uncle Sam will recover executive bonuses paid by AIG a