Click here to view today's top stories on your mobile device. | Thursday, Jun. 04, 2009 | | Are Mozilo And Countrywide Only the First Targets? | Now that the SEC has made its move against former Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo and the company's former COO and CFO, I find myself wondering, based on the evidence the SEC is offering up in its complaint, whether the agency is poised to come after many other firms that failed to alert their shareholders to the risks they were taking in the mortgage market... »read more | Jobless Drop Buoys Stocks; Banks Gain | Stocks advanced Thursday after a report showed jobless claims fell last week and banks gained. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 75 points, or 0.9 percent. The S&P 500 gained 1.1 percent and the Nasdaq added 1.3 percent.... »read more | TODAY'S TOP 5 VIDEOS  | 1. Icahn's Winning Streak  | Billionaire investor Carl Icahn tells CNBC's Mike Huckman how he claimed two seats on Biogen Idec's board. | 2. Rogers on Rally  | Discussing whether the market will continue to rally and if there is a currency crisis ahead, with Jim Rogers, Rogers Holding chairman. | 3. Trichet Talks Bonds, Bullying  | European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet stipulated to CNBC Thursday that the central bank's launch of a covered-bonds purchasing program is not a form of quantitative easing. He also said the ECB refused to be bullied into changing its monetary policy. | 5. iPhone v. Palm Pre  | Apple's iPhone is about to face some stiff competition, with David Pogue, NY Times tech columnist. |
| |   | | |  | Just Don't Call It "Swine Flu" | After facing record high corn prices a year ago, followed by a recession affecting consumer pocketbooks, pig farmers were hoping for a pick up in the market this spring. "This is the annual grilling season," says farmer Randy Spronk. But on April 24th, the world learned that people were dying in Mexico from a virus someone dubbed the "swine flu"»read more
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