In "Famous Last Words" (repeated below for convenience) I took a look at a 10 point CNBC Slideshow On Famous Last Words. Somehow I had not yet seen this video where Jon Stewart on the DailyShow takes a look at some "advice" given on CNBC. In case you have not seen this yet, please take a look at CNB...

Inquiring minds are investigating the 10 point CNBC Slideshow On Famous Last Words of 2008 boneheaded comments. Here are some of my favorites. #3: Erin Callan "Categorically no." Lehman Brothers CFO Erin Callan responding on March 18, 2008, to the question as to whether the firm would be the next to...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Bank of America Corp. briefly dropped to their lowest level in more than two decades Thursday on concern the U.S. government may nationalize the banking giant to help stabilize the broader financial system. The shares slumped as low as $3.77 earlier in the vo...

You know Ladenburg Thalmann analyst Dick Bove's pick** (Phill Purcell come on down!), and while we hope he gets his wish (that's not an endorsement of P-squared so much as it is one for the adorable woodland creature), there are a few other names in the board's exploratory hopper in anticipation of ...

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) is getting a more "in-line" view from analyst and fan Dick Bove of Ladenburg Thalmann. Bove is capitulating at least a bit with the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]...

Vikram Pandit, chief executive of US bank Citigroup, started last week by telling the group's staff that 52,000 of them would lose their jobs. A few days later, it looked as if he could soon be following them. The bank's share price halved in just four days and continued to slide as investors and ri...

Rumors: did they take down Lehman? Yes and no! On the one hand, as both rumormonger David Einhorn and pretty stiletto-wearing former Lehman CFO Erin Callan could tell you, that is how capitalism works. You short a stock, you start a word-of-mouth marketing campaign about how, say, "Lehman is the new...

Shares in Lehman Brothers plunged 44 percent today after talks with the Korea Development Bank, which had reportedly been considering purchasing a 25 percent stake for around $4 billion, came to an unsatisfying close. What will they have to sell to stay afloat? "Neuberger, its hedge funds, its high ...

Nine days ago in this space, I took a lot of heat for pronouncing John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as politically “brilliant.” My assumption, of course, was that McCain had actually seriously vetted the most important decision of his campaign (I was wrong), but, scandals and ...

Filed under: Citigroup Inc. (C) An analyst who follows Citigroup (NYSE: C) believes that the financial services company will sell it Primerica division. The operation provides customer life insurance and investment products including mutual funds. According to Reuters, Ladenburg Thalmann analyst Ric...