Topic: Financial Markets

By setting up offices of research, innovation and commercialisation (ORIC) in its universities, Pakistan hopes to boost research collaboration ...

Report: Facebook could file IPO next week

Facebook is prepping papers to file an initial public offering as soon as next Wednesday, reports The Wall Street Journal.. . Citing "people...
JP Morgan's equity strategist Tom Lee is still bullish on the stock market. His 2012 year-end target is 1,350. However, with the S&P 500 up 20%...

Weekend Readings

Good Saturday to all of you:) I thought the image on the right was a great way to put it. It's an extremely difficult problem to tackle and clearly...

Broken Forever?

What's the difference between a piggy bank and a money-market fund? Not much. Neither is insured, and the returns are basically the same: nothing...
Inflation. Deflation. Rehypothecation. Bad rap lyrics, or the poetry of finance? You can judge for yourself when you finish this first installment ...
We thought we had it all figured out before this week started. We were wrong. The top minds in the investment business offered some novel analysis...

Treasury bond market at a glance

Key barometers in the Treasury market late Friday, compared with late Thursday. Price changes in the 10-year note and 30-year bond are per $100 ...
We have a ton of new cartoons this week, and the star of the show has to be Newt Gingrich, he of the open-marriage and the status of both a...
The perilous state of the European economy has seized the discussions of political and business leaders at an exclusive summit here, as Prime...