13 Aug 10 The Banker Unafraid of Reform

He doesn’t love everything about the financial reform bill, but he unabashadly says he and his fellow bankers need strong reform and now that they’ve got at least *some* form of it, they should all be ready to move on and up.
Bob Diamond, President of U.K-based bank Barclays, joined me exclusively on Countdown to the [...]

13 Aug 10 No Sob Story Now For Saab

Just a year ago, the quirky, Swedish car company was hanging by spark-plug.  It was rescued by another quirky company, Dutch sports-car manufacturer Spyker.
Spyker bought it when no one else would touch it. $400 million was the price tag.  Then… you didn’t hear much, until NOW.
In a First on Fox Business interview, the Chairman of [...]

13 Aug 10 Trennert’s 25 Stocks

Inflation? Deflation? Everyone’s got an opinion on which scenario will play out. So HOW can you add some Teflon to your portfolio while we’re all waiting?
Jason Trennert of Strategas has amassed a list of dividend-play stocks that he says could very well up their payouts, which would be, as Martha says, a GOOD thing.
Jason’s list is [...]

13 Aug 10 DoubleClick Founder Double Clicks on New Web Venture

Which has the most expensive tuition: Harvard, Yale or Princeton?
What are the three tallest dinosaurs?
Which ski mountains have the best vertical limits for expert skiers?
With just a few key punches into FindTheBest.com, you can compare anything… not just flight prices or digital cameras.. ANYTHING.  Even down to ‘celebrity divas with plastic surgery’?  Like I said, [...]

13 Aug 10 Porn Play: Penthouse Puts Out For Playboy

I do love a good corporate takeover attempt.  This one’s particular enjoyable to watch. This week, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner announced earlier this week he’s done with his baby being a publicly-traded punching bag. He made an offer of $5.50 a share for the stock of Playboy he doesn’t already own.
Not but a flick of [...]

13 Aug 10 "I’ll Take AIG Settlement for $725m, Alex."

A 5-time “Jeopardy!” champion who also happens to be Ohio’s Attorney General Richard Cordray– won the ultimate competition last week: a major settlement against insurance giant AIG.
In a lawsuit filed on behalf of Ohio’s Public Employees Retirement System, State Teachers and Ohio Police and Firefighters, Ohio AG Richard Cordray alleged that AIG caused significant losses [...]

13 Aug 10 Airbus Americas Chair to FBN: "Pentagon Being Fair, WTO not so much"

Airbus is fighting battles on two fronts: One fight, it says, is fair. The other, the company wonders, may not be. 
In a Fox Business Exclusive today, Allan McArtor, Airbus Americas Chairman and basically the 5-star General handling the front here in the U.S., told me he “smells a rat” over at the World Trade Organization.
In [...]

13 Aug 10 Deputy Treasury Sec’y to FBN: Geithner Thinks Warren a Good Pick for Consumer Agency

In a Fox Business Exclusive the day Financial Reform was signed into law by President Obama, Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin joined me live in an interview to talk about both the “total elimination” of too-big-to-fail and about who might run the brand new consumer protection agency.
I specifically asked him whether the law truly does [...]

13 Aug 10 With All That Taxpayer $$, Did We Really Stabilize Foreclosures?

The answer is a flat-out NOT YET, according to Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General overseeing the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP).
If you care about your taxpayer dollars and how they’re being put to use, please listen to the clip below. With all our brain power in this nation, somehow both the administrations of Bush and [...]

13 Aug 10 Ford Fast-Forwards Past the Worst of Times

When the history books are written on the crisis that nearly wiped out the U.S. Auto Industry, I look most forward to reading the chapter on Ford.
I remember looking at the stock of the iconic car giant sometime during 2008 and it was around $5 a share. That’s it. Five dollars to own a share in the [...]