U.S. News & World Report - Defaults in the municipal bond market can happen, as some investors recently discovered. Municipal bonds, which are genera read more »
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AP - In an internal report released Wednesday, BP blames itself, other companies' workers and a complex series of failures for the massive Gulf of Me read more »
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AP - MORTGAGE APPLICATIONS SLIP: Applications for home loans dipped last week as mortgage rates ticked up slightly from the lowest level in decades, read more »
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Reuters - Pakistan, whose economy has been battered by the worst floods in its history, needs to abide by terms of an IMF bailout loan by enforcing f read more »
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The Motley Fool - The constant iterative calculation of risk and reward required in every chess move translates well to the investing world. I though read more »
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AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid knows who's to blame for the sickly economy. And it's not him. read more »
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AFP - The head of the US stock market watchdog said on Tuesday that individual investors have been turning away from equities since a May crash that read more »
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Reuters - Oracle Corp offered its new president, Mark Hurd, former head of Hewlett-Packard Co, a salary of $950,000 and a bonus of up to $10 million read more »
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Reuters - Stubbornly high unemployment and signs of persistent weakness in the housing market have prompted economists to further cut their outlook f read more »
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Reuters - No. 2 U.S. tax-preparer Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc posted a narrower-than-expected quarterly loss, as a drop in total expenses offset read more »
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AP - Shares in BP PLC tracked slightly higher after the release of an internal report on the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that deflects read more »
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Reuters - Women's clothing retailer Talbots Inc posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as tighter inventory management boosted its margins, read more »
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AP - Smithfield Foods Inc. says higher selling prices for pork and improvement in hog market prices helped it return to a profit in its fiscal first- read more »
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