Stocks Rally to the Finish as Banks Soar Stocks rallied Friday as traders shrugged off a huge job-loss number and banks soared. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 217.52, or 2.7 percent...read more
1. BofA's Lewis Speaks Out Bank of America president/chairman & CEO Kenneth Lewis discusses concerns of nationalization by the U.S. government, the bank's investment of Merrill Lynch and the overall state of the banking industry, with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo
2.Schapiro on Mark-To-Market SEC chair Mary Schapiro speaks for the first time since becoming head of the SEC and days since the agency has been skewered by lawmakers, reports CNBC's Rebecca Jarvis
4.El-Erian's View The big loss of jobs will push the Obama administration to do more, says Mohamed El-Erian, Pimco co-chief investment officer/co-CEO
5. Stop Trading, Listen to Cramer! Mad Money's Jim Cramer shares his stock picks and pans and GE announces it will keep its dividend for now, and reevaluate it in the second half of 2009.
A New University For Today's Tough Times If there's anything CEOs need right now, it's more education about how to deal with the unprecedented changes that are occurring in the world. This week, a new university was formed to do that: The Singularity Institute.
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Stocks Rise as Bank Hopes Gain Traction Stocks eked out a gain Thursday after a rough morning as banks got a boost from market chatter that the government may suspend a controversial accounting rule blamed for much of the contagion in the financial industry...read more
Teen Retailer Stocks Still Hot: Analyst Laura Champine, senior retail analyst for Cowen & Co., has been at the mall, shopping for good retailers, and she's got some very definite ideas about the few positive trends out there...read more
4. Cisco CEO: Weakness Spreading Overseas Discussing the worries over tech spending in key markets overseas as the tech giant's Q3 revenue is down about 20%, with John Chambers, Cisco chairman/CEO
Home-Buyer Tax Credit A Good Start, But... Last night the Senate voted to include a $15,000 homebuyer tax credit to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (a.k.a. the big Obama bailout). The tax credit is a good start, but let's hope it's not the finish.
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