Archive for March 27th, 2008

The kid who delivers your pizza may be charging you an extra buck for gas, but for the guy that trucked the tomatoes, hauled the dough or milked the cows, passing along the fuel increase isn't as easy as pie.

The kid who delivers your pizza may be charging you an extra buck for gas, but for the guy that trucked the tomatoes, hauled the dough or milked the cows, passing along the fuel increase isn't as easy as pie.

Americans will get a chance to speak their minds on the proposed merger between Bank of America and Countrywide Financial Corp., the Federal Reserve said Thursday.

Americans will get a chance to speak their minds on the proposed merger between Bank of America and Countrywide Financial Corp., the Federal Reserve said Thursday.

Stocks tanked Thursday, as investors showed concern about downgrades of several financial institutions, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq was dragged down by disappointing news from Oracle and Google.

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As a financial writer, I spend a lot of time looking at numbers. Right now, the numbers say that the world has a huge and unremitting hunger for technology, communication, Internet access, and information.

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Oppenheimer analyst Meredith Whitney upped the ante on the banking sector Thursday when she predicted Merrill Lynch, UBS, and Citigroup would report worse-than-feared earnings and find themselves once again scrambling for cash.