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If the brand of Lance Armstrong was a stock, let’s just be nice say that the value would have tanked. The reality is that the exchange would have probably halted trading if it was public. After the...
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New Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) COO Henrique de Castro will receive a base salary of $600,000 as he moves from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to the portal company. The amount is a pittance compared to his massive...
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The office of New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli released its annual report on the state of Wall St. The focus of the report, at least according to the press, was this information: The...
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Traditionally, consumers have either saved up for Christmas and holiday gift spending or added balances to their credit cards. That was before the recession and before the value hunt took off. The...
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Twenty-six of the top 100 highest-paid U.S. CEOs in 2011 made more than their companies paid in federal income taxes, according to a study released recently by the Institute for Policy Studies....
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If you think that ‘ridiculous bonuses’ are limited to Wall Street, think again. We have always worried about a bonus even being called a bonus, but this one truly is frivolous and is going to...
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Heidrick & Struggles International Inc. (NASDAQ: HSII) CEO L. Kevin Kelly has gotten rich over the past three years, while his shareholders have become poorer. It would make sense that a public...
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Activist investing can sometimes be a bit like a tennis match to watch. And sometimes it can yield great profits for investors. Carl Icahn is picking up his attack on Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:...
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The pay package of new Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer has been pegged at between $59 million and $100 million, depending on what assumptions about bonuses and stock options get used....
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The rumors are that new Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer has a net worth of $300 million because of her holding of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) stock. That would make her new salary of $1 million to...
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Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMEX) is far from your ordinary company because this is quite literally a publicly traded treasure hunting outfit. Now it might be a silver mining outfit...
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During CNBC’s Delivering Alpha Conference this morning, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner talked about many things pertaining to taxes, politics, the fiscal cliff and more. Geithner is defending the...
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If you were just looking at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) you might think that all was well on Wall St. after the bulge-bracket firm beat its earnings estimates. When you look elsewhere you...
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today has just released documents related to the Barclays-LIBOR scandal with Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS). These documents were requested (request or demand?) by...
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Is it bad luck to release a sentiment index reading on Friday the 13th? Apparently so. The Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary sentiment index for July came in at a very disappointing...
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