Jason Schwarz submits: Everyone's talking about Sarah Palin. Thank goodness for investors, she is pro Wall Street. Her Wednesday night RNC speech struck a cord with businesses across the country. This self proclaimed 'gal from Alaska' is already shaking things up with the substance that she offered up on important...
By Matt Daily NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is seen as a strong advocate for opening new areas to oil drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but has taken a hard line in negotiations with oil companies and raised...
Markos Kaminis (Wall St. Greek) submits: This past week will forever be remembered for its historical significance. On the same day of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech some 25 years ago, Barack Obama became the first American of African descent to accept a...
I'm a sucker for interesting sounding words that tell a story by the themselves, and one that has always enchanted me is "the gaggle" -- the daily informal morning press briefing held by the White House for beat reporters. Well, sorry to say that the White House has discontinued the...
The two political conventions are over, thank goodness, so now we can start the truly silly season of the presidential election process. Today's insight from the conventions is about making a quick impression with sound and visuals. In my opinion, with the exception of Obama's acceptance at...
Perseus Books Group is the latest to claim a better mousetrap when it comes to digital publishing for indie publishers, according to the NYT: Constellation, slated to launch Thursday, includes partnerships with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Google Book Search, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Sony Reader, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle, Barnes &...
By Deepa Seetharaman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street is set for another volatile week after the Labor Day holiday, as investors track Hurricane Gustav, the price of oil, key economic data and continued fallout from the credit crisis. Gustav initially came roaring...
TransCanada Corp. and Enbridge Inc. are throwing hockey-type elbows at each other to procure a state license to work with either ExxonMobil or BP and ConocoPhillips (which on April 8 announced a joint proposal) to build the long-delayed $30 billion-plus North Alaska gas pipeline project, linking Alaska's North Slope with...