BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Financial services firms need to work hard to regain the trust of their constituents, and effectively communicating the steps they are taking to address their difficulties will help restore confidence in their institutions, according to a new survey by BackBay Communications...

OK, let's make this a really easy stock lesson for you and why the market forces think President Obama's bank and housing plan is the wrong path for the USA.  Before that, a little background on me.  I spent 5 years as a Managing Director at a brokerage firm called Harrisdirect/C...

BEAVER CREEK, CO (MARKET WIRE) Hundreds of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and others in the early stage investment eco-system, including 24 presenting companies seeking venture funding, will gather this week in Beaver Creek, CO at the 26th annual Venture Capital in the Rockies Conference (VCIR W...

Digg getting into the toolbar business: Smart Rihanna going back to Chris Brown: Dumb Adam Corrolla taking his show online: Smart Andrew Baron’s analysis of why TV Studios will die : Smart Money’s diminishing returns : True We need more ass wiping businesses : True Obama’s budget i...

For private equity firms hoping to get hard-to-find financing for deals, there's one less place for them to turn. Tucked into the Royal Bank of Scotland's announcement of a $34.2 billion annual loss - the largest in British corporate history - was word that the partially nationalized firm was gettin...

    Eighteen Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee are lambasting Northern Trust bank, a recipient of more than $1.5 billion in federal bailout money, for spending money on a series of lavish events and perks. read more...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA (MARKET WIRE) First California Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCAL) today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer C. G. Kum will participate as a panelist in the Southern California Banks II Panel at the Sandler O'Neill West Coast Financial Services Conference on Tu...

once again, i am sitting in kabul on monday night, 9 1/2 hours ahead of u.s. east coast time, watching the dow plunge... i'll update this post in the morning when i get up which will be approximately five hours after wall street's closing bell... [UPDATE] holy shit...! i knew it was going to continu...

LOS ANGELES, CA (MARKET WIRE) Dick Gunther knows how to get through tough times....

Foreign professionals working in finance in Dubai have been hard hit by the economic downturn. Now, their jobs in the once-bustling city-state may be even less secure. The government of the United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday that private-sector employers were not allowed to lay off Emirati wor...