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Not for the faint-hearted. Lehman is making the case for shifting away from growth stocks and towards value. Which means financials. Just as Meredith Whitney gets going on her latest round of predicting outsize writedowns. Lehman doesn't believe...

Wachovia (NYSE: WB) will raise between $6 billion and $7 billion. Will the money come in at $28 where the bank trades now? That is already down by half from the 52-week high of almost $57. What a deal that would be. But, no, the new financing will be...

First read the Stumbling and Mumbling blog on why not to worry about a housing crash. Then, emboldened by those words, venture to This is Money's latest toy: a House Price Crash Calculator. What will your home be worth if the market collapses? Cheery,...

The revived merger between Delta (DAL) and Northwest (NWA) is based on the premise that, in a airline industry depression, two carriers mashed together work better than if they remained independent. It is an argument which is half again too clever but...

It is the kind of deal that investment bankers trying to save their jobs and desperate CEOs might dream up. Blockbuster (NYSE:BBI) has proposed to buy Circuit City (NYSE:CC) for $6 to $8 based on due diligence. According to The Wall Street Journal "Blockbuster...

Investors are a fickle bunch. Massive rights issue at UBS (confirmed) was good for a 7 per cent jump in the share price of the beleaguered Swiss bank. Reports, now denied, of a planned rights issue at Bradford & Bingley and the shares get marked down...

We shouldn't get in the way of the existential prose here: Casual empiricism suggests that life is an imbalance that is ultimately corrected by death. For most of us that correction happens gradually over time, as the body's capacity to regenerate...

My more radical proposal would transform the Office of Debt Management into an Office of Portfolio Management (OPM) or Office of Sovereign Wealth Management (OSWM). Rather than investing in foreign assets, this OSWM would invest in the RMBS issue of the...

According to Reuters, Blockbuster (NYSE:BBI) said it has offered to buy Circuit City (NYSE:CC) for $6 to $8 in cash. Reuters writes that a merger between Delta (NYSE:DAL) and Northwest (NYSE:NWA) could be announced this week. Reuters reports that TIme...

Markets in Asia were down sharply. The Nikkei fell 3.1% to 12,918. Canon fell 5% to 4610. KDDI fell 7.8% to 641000. Sony (SNE) fell 4.5% to 4050. The Hang Seng dropped 3.3% to 23,854. China Life (LFC) fell 4.8% to 28.9. PetroChina (PTR) fell 4.5% to 9.89....