[Posted on June 30, 2008 at 3:48 PM]
Wondering why there's been a flurry of layoffs on Wall Street in the last few weeks? A Financial Time story suggests that year-end bonuses may be the culprit. ...
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[Posted on June 30, 2008 at 3:35 PM]
The collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. becomes more titillating every day as information surfaces that money manager Jeffrey Epstein, a favorite subject of gossip blog Gawker and the New York
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[Posted on June 30, 2008 at 2:29 PM]
Trouble continues at Washington Mutual Inc. The thrift, which rode the real estate bubble, is now feeling the pain of the crash and is trying everything to fix its enormous problems,
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[Posted on June 30, 2008 at 1:18 PM]
A lot of blogging has already occurred about Citigroup Inc. CEO Vikram Pandit's op ed piece Friday in The Wall Street Journal. Yes, the tone is -- odd. After all,
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[Posted on June 30, 2008 at 11:38 AM]
As the markets start their day mixed, with the Dow slightly up and the Nasdaq slightly down, shares of leading Wall Street firms across the board have slipped, the exception
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[Posted on June 30, 2008 at 9:16 AM]
These are tense times on Wall Street as investment banks and other institutions of dealmaking continue to cut back staff. Estimates are that between 60,000 and 80,000 Wall Street employees
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[Posted on June 27, 2008 at 4:42 PM]
When UBS acquired Paine Webber in 2000, the acquisition was meant to be a cornerstone of the big Swiss bank's expansion in its U.S. wealth management division. Eight years later,
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[Posted on June 27, 2008 at 12:29 PM]
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. vice chairman Jimmy Lee was honored by fellow dealmakers at a charity dinner for the New York Public Library. The event was co-chaired by his
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[Posted on June 26, 2008 at 5:24 PM]
When Bank of America Corp. made an offer for Countrywide Financial Corp., the largest mortgage company in the U.S., it was only a matter of time before the ax
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[Posted on June 26, 2008 at 3:54 PM]
Carlyle Group managing directors Olivier Sarkozy and Randal Quarles, writing in The Wall Street Journal Thursday, argued that the federal government should ease restrictions that limit private equity investments
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[Posted on June 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM]
The subprime mortgage crisis has presented Canadian banks with a fascinating opportunity, and it will be interesting to see if any of them them seize it, and how quickly. ...
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[Posted on June 26, 2008 at 12:28 PM]
Seven former Bear Stearns Cos. employees are moving on. RBC Capital Markets recruited seven bankers from Bear Stearns Cos.: Kathy Costine, Rae Boylan, Nelson Luria, James LaVigne, Marcella Finkel, Evie
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[Posted on June 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM]
The Wall Street Journal's "Heard on the Street" column today offers another example of the treacherousness of historical comparisons. The short piece comments on Barclays plc's capital raising and compares
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