Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (March 2 – 8, 2009) “Down, down, deeper and down”. So goes the chorus of a Status Quo song, but it is eerily starting to sound like the stock markets’ anthem. Another week and another plunge of equities on fears about the int...

The nominee, Kaspar Villiger, was first official to apologize for Switzerland’s World War II refugee policy of turning away thousands of Jews....

Disgraced international bank UBS has agreed to pay a $780 million fine and turn over the names of certain account holders to the IRS as part of an agreement to end the investigation into whether the bank helped wealthy clients hide assets. The number of client names to be revealed has not been made ...

Filed under: Gear No doubt, many of you check in on SkyMall Monday while you are at the office. You're taking a break from your hectic workday to learn about the latest innovations coming from our favorite catalog. But consider how much time you're spending at your desk. You're tucked into your cubi...

Biotech, cancer, deals Luke Timmerman wrote: The recession will surely kill off some biotech companies that lack hard cash and the hard data that shows their experimental drugs can improve patients’ lives. But after I heard Seattle Genetics CEO Clay Siegall tell the story of how his company ra...

Singapore’s Resilience Package is a bold, welcome measure to stimulate the economy. But I couldn’t resist noting the day it was announced: But the 20.5 billion Singapore dollar ($13.7 billion) Resilience Package falls billions short of Singapore’s total investments in the troubled banking gian...

I don’t see nothing wrong going out with the black guys…. I met Shiron in my math class, he is a good man, and he is going to play football at Colorado State University. Also, his working in Dish network. I like him so much, but people around me against on him. What can I do,sometimes ...

Egoship. I doubt that I coined the term, but I did think of it independently. It’s been popping into my head for a number of years now as I read stories of astronomical pay packages for business leaders. It didn’t take a business guru to start noticing that along with those salaries seem...

FREEWRITING, i thought about that when i was arranged my paper works from last semester. Freewriting or Malayang pagsusulat, the rules are: you can write in different language, express your feeling and keep writing even though not included in the topic. I love freewriting, I used to wrote a little...

On Monday afternoon, NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker appeared at the UBS 36th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan, where he delivered the day's keynote address to a banquet hall of lunching media entrepreneurs, investors, and bankers. Over the course of ...