The world’s wealthiest man turns 54 this morning with his net worth having been boosted by the past week’s jump into Windows 7. By contrast, jumping out of windows was the order of the da

In a delicious irony, archaeologists unearthed Nero’s dining room a year to the day after Congressional fiddling while Rome burned caused stocks to crater. Yesterday’s decline in the Dow,

Investors feared a hangover after the recent run up in equities, especially since Anheuser-Busch InBev’s CEO rang yesterday’s opening bell, but they needn’t have worried. Indeed it&

All day and every day, some of the stock market's best and brightest traders and money managers share their ideas, insights and analysis in real-time on Minyanville's Buzz & Banter. This week Wal

Minyan Morning Memo One to Watch: Time Warner (TWX) today reported Q2 earnings which exceeded estimates even as its revenue fell short.The media conglomerate benefited from cost cuts, strength i

After yesterday’s excitement, the market decided to just coast today. The biggest news occurred last night, when Alcoa (AA) reported its quarterly results. The Street liked the numbers, and the

Editor's Note: Chuck LeBeau is the founder of SmartStops.net. This is his first piece for Minyanville.With baby boomers creeping closer and closer to retirement -- and the number of uninsured America

Greetings from New York, where I’ve got the day off from television. I’m pacing myself, but if you flip your cable through the NBC family in a timely manner tomorrow, there’s a chan

Editor's Note: The following post is courtesy of Dr. Duru. This is the second part of a 2-part series. Part 1 can be found here.Two weeks ago, I used data on options expiring on February 20, 2009 to

Editor's Note: This piece is by Rolfe Winkler, of OptionARMageddon.We're not quite as healthy as we thought we were. The Wall Street Journal reports that "JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Chief Ex