Brian HicksPosted November 26, 2007
First there was "Black Friday". And now there is something called "Cyber Monday". But no matter how you get there, one thing about this Christmas season is already crystal clear. Borrowing from...
Brian HicksPosted November 23, 2007
Big investment banks aren't known for doing too much business with small-cap companies. Ian Cooper discusses two they missed.
Brian HicksPosted November 22, 2007
Sure the markets are down. But the truth is that there is nothing that we can't handle. Here's why.
Brian HicksPosted November 21, 2007
Freddie Mac dropped the bomb on the markets today. Here's why its so big....
Brian HicksPosted November 21, 2007
It's judgment day in California for sub prime ARMs. Why Arnold's latest move may kill them forever.
Brian HicksPosted November 20, 2007
Billionaires didn't make money buying just anything. In this issue, Ian Cooper discusses Carl Icahn's latest company investment.
Brian HicksPosted November 20, 2007
When homebuilders start raising prices instead of cutting them, we'll be at a bottom, but the housing bulls don't seem to care.
Brian HicksPosted November 20, 2007
Any one that didn't know that credit card companies would be slapped around wasn't paying attention.
Brian HicksPosted November 20, 2007
So what exactly does it look when property values fall dramatically? Well, in this story from a recent auction it's a tale of a meal gone ice cold.
Brian HicksPosted November 19, 2007
Over the past week, I've seen China's past, present and future. In central China's Xi'an, I saw high-tech metallurgy that western science only caught up to within the past century.
Brian HicksPosted November 19, 2007
While the subprime slime has managed to ding one bank after another these days, if there was a catbird seat to be had it would definitely belong to Goldman Sachs. But here's the scary part...
Brian HicksPosted November 17, 2007
I find myself thinking more and more about dominoes these days. Not the pizza, but the kind that you play with. As a kid, I use to love to set them up and knock them down. That's because the debt...