Now if only Chinese could buy as many cars as Americans... yesssssss

These reuters writers are just hilarious. As if bonus pools or compensation add-ons were really the issue. Hello, when the world deleverages and proprietary trading gets nixed, there are no more profits. Banks exist for fractional reserve interest and to trade their own accounts, everything else is just a show.

Interesting trading ideas, does Benzinga always include those at the bottom of its articles? I would be interested in the arb boys who got crushed today with all that volatility over the buyout price.

Thing about textbooks is that overall, I think the market is shrinking (i.e. pie slices are getting smaller because the pie is getting smaller). Why would Apple enter a shrinking market to begin with? I would see the company making an expansion into a faster growing market space than textbooks...

hmm, Mead Johnson, this one does sound familiar from the trading chatrooms this past few days. glad i found this article, i had been wondering what was up with this ticker MJN

Finally! The dismal housing market has me depressed. The government needs to do something for your average citizen, you can't just put the #1 investment into a standstill for a decade and expect the nation to recover. We need to see these numbers improving every month or we're never getting out of this mess.

I have thought this ever since Google launched its service to compete with Facebook. Obviously, Google knows what it's doing, and it has the advertising and brand strength to give it away for free (docs, maps, search, etc). I know Facebook is still private but I've never heard of GSVC, that's interesting to me, good...more

You definitely have to remember as investors: only invest in growth stocks when there's growth! Otherwise you end up paying a huge P/E multiple for a stock that's not growing (and not worth a huge P/E multiple!). Beware these slow-down stories. Look what happened to Netflix...

Has anyone posted a comparison like this before? Awesome to put things into perspective... times seem bad, but at least it's not 1932. Although we have started to see these crazy 3-6% swings in the indices... it doesn't exactly make your stomach easy.