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Fortune: Hedging toward another slump

There are two reasons I try to avoid reviewing books about investing and markets: first, because they're often written by hucksters or androids (and not particularly talented androids at that), and second, because they have a tendency to illustrate how stupid I am (as if my Schedule D couldn't confirm this). But every so often one pops out of the pile with something original to say, or an original way of saying it.

Fortune: The bond market's dirty secret

Like greenbacks in a mattress, government bonds enjoy a reputation as a fail-safe investment. The integrity of the $4 trillion-plus U.S. Treasury market is essential, because it keeps investors, pa...

CNNMoney: Murdoch's $44M New York pad?

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of media giant News Corp., has agreed to buy the late Laurance Rockefeller's Fifth Avenue penthouse apartment for $44 million, according to a report published Friday.

Fortune: WARREN BUFFETT'S WILD RIDE AT SALOMON A HARROWING, BIZARRE TALE OF MISDEEDS AND MISTAKES THAT PUSHED SALOMON TO

As Sanford I. Weill, 64, the dealmaking CEO of Travelers Group, steps up to his biggest acquisition ever--the purchase of Salomon Inc. for $9 billion--a famous Wall Street figure, Warren E. Buffett...

Fortune: HOW LEWIE BLEW IT

In the 1980s, colorful, cigar-chomping Lewis Ranieri made himself Wall Street's megastar of mortgage-backed securities. In the 1990s he sold a batch of fixed-income funds to investors on the propos...

Fortune: TRACES OF OIL IN THIRD-QUARTER EARNINGS

Besides disturbing the peace of the world, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait left boot prints on many a third-quarter earnings report. Oil companies were affected, natch, though not necessarily in predicta...

Fortune: THE DEAL OF THE DECADE HAD NO HEROES The RJR Nabisco buyout was drama enough for two books, and nobody comes out of either looki

Which kind of man is Ross Johnson: a greedy, political bastard, or a greedy, talented manager? For a contrast of judgments and just about everything else, see the two new books about the Great RJR ...

Fortune: BIGGIE NAMED IN WALL STREET STING

Meet Eruga gutfreundi, a species of female wasp recently discovered in the mountains of Costa Rica and named for John H. Gutfreund, CEO of Salomon Brothers. Why the honor? The investment bank helpe...

Fortune: A dark horse at Salomon

When rumors swirled around crash-stricken Wall Street that the Sultan of Salomon, Chairman John Gutfreund, 58, was about to resign, most eyes fastened on the firm's hard-driven president, Thomas St...

Fortune: Big investors on Wall Street

With prices of brokerage stocks shaken by market jitters, investors are swooping down on Wall Street. Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong conglomerate, agreed to acquire 20% of Bear Stearn...

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