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Hershey Co. may make a $17 billion bid for UK candy company Cadbury PLC, topping the recent $16.5 billion hostile offer by Kraft Foods Inc., the Wall Street Journal reports Friday.
Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes and Grizzly smokeless tobacco, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps people stop smoking, a tobacco expert who said he was briefed by people close to the talks told The Associated Press Monday.
The Wall Street Journal says its new San Francisco Bay Area edition will launch Thursday, with a weekly section devoted to local news.
The Wall Street Journal is shutting its Boston bureau and eliminating nine jobs, marking the second round of cuts at the newspaper this year.
Bank of America Corp. said Wednesday it has agreed to sell First Republic Bank, a private bank it inherited from Merrill Lynch & Co., to a group of investors.
A bankruptcy judge said Monday he would not immediately give control of copper mining company Asarco LLC to Grupo Mexico SAB despite the latter's winning bid in a court auction, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The Federal Aviation Administration may be expanding its investigation into suspected structural problems found in a small portion of American Airlines jets, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The New York Times is getting a jump on The Wall Street Journal in their battle to capture more readers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bruce Wasserstein, the CEO of Lazard Ltd. and a prominent Wall Street dealmaker who helped negotiate some of the largest corporate takeovers in history, died Wednesday. He was 61. The death of the driving force behind Lazard raises questions about the future of one of Wall Street's top mergers and acquisitions advisory firms.
The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States.
An independent consulting firm has given Citigroup Inc.'s management team a good review, but the embattled bank could see more changes among its top ranks, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
ExxonMobil has bought Kosmos Energy's stake in oil blocks offshore the West African country of Ghana in an area that contains huge crude discoveries, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Bank of America Corp. plans to select an emergency CEO this week in case Ken Lewis steps down before the end of the year, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The Wall Street Journal plans to start charging as much as $2 a week to read its stories on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices, expanding the newspaper's effort to become less dependent on its print edition.
Citigroup is considering a plan in which the Treasury Department would sell part of its holdings in the bank, while the New York-based company would issue new shares to the public as part of a multibillion-dollar stock offering, The Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is again blasting the Democrats health care proposal, this time in an editorial for the Wall Street Journal.
A former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and the head of a newspaper company are among four new board members chosen by the Star Tribune's main lenders to lead the newspaper after it emerges from bankruptcy protection.
Freedom Communications Inc., the owner of the Orange County Register, is expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week, according to a published report.
The Wall Street Journal reports that investors in the main hedge funds of New York-based private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP want out and are asking for the return of more than $5.5 billion, or about 71 percent of fund assets.
Some companies are advocating for health care reform in the hopes that they can have a say in a plan that would provide them some financial relief, but the strategy carries risks.
Security firm McAfee found that users searching for the star’s photos or screensavers had a 20 percent chance of getting a site that had malicious software.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. provides some of its biggest clients stock tips that come out of regular meetings held by analysts and traders at the investment bank, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Drug maker Warner Chilcott PLC could announce a $3 billion takeover of Procter & Gamble Co.'s prescription drug business as early as Monday, The Wall Street Journal has reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the deal.
A judge in New York City has ruled that a discrimination lawsuit brought against Dow Jones & Co. by a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal can go to trial.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is continuing its investigation of possible insider trading involving hedge fund Pequot Capital Management and its founder Arthur Samberg, according to a letter to investors obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
Moral Cowardice on the Right or You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows by Jerry Bowles This article is in response to the right wing fringe, who would see us give away even more of our freedoms.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Karachi bombing accused acquittedA Pakistani court has acquitted a man sentenced to death in the June 2002 Sheraton hotel bombing which killed 11 French engineers in Karachi.
Poll: Support for Afghanistan troop increasesThe latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that a plurality of Americans now backs a troop increase in Afghanistan, and that there is slightly more support for a government-run health insurance option.
Report: IRS eyes 100,000 for tax credit fraudThe U.S. Internal Revenue Service is probing more than 100,000 doubtful claims of a tax credit meant for first-time home buyers, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
Rush Limbaugh - Keeping the Pity Party GoingKEEPING THE PITY PARTY GOING.... Investors hoping to purchase the St. Louis Rams football franchise decided this week they didn't want to hang out with Rush Limbaugh anymore.
The Wall Street Journal ("WSJ") cannot blame its right wing tendencies on Rupert Murdock.
UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal says the dollar fell again on Friday October 9, 2009. LINKYesterday's news in not good. You can't spin it whether you are conservative, liberal, or independent.
The Next Youth-Magnet Cities (is your town one of them?)The Wall Street Journal announced the result of its panelists picks on what cities are likely to be the hottest draws for the young adult crowd. And the winners are: Washington DC, Seattle, New York, Portland, and Austin.
Steve Jobs victim of unflattering ad placement by Wall Street JournalEarlier this week, the Wall Street Journal ran a photo of a strikingly gaunt Steve Jobs -- for a story about the Apple chief executive's first public appearance since undergoing a liver transplant -- directly next to an ad for Halloween skeleton costumes.
The Whole Foods Boycott & Hypocracy of John MackeyIt's likely many of Whold Food's customers take at face value the company's identity as a leader in "socially responsible" business.
Wall Street Journal Debunks GOP Talking Point on Stimulusexcerpt: "' While the Wall Street Journal editorial page can always be counted on to cheerlead the flat-earth economics of the Republican Party, on occasion the paper's reporters contradict GOP orthodoxy. And so it is today on the subject of the Obama stimulus package.
Lockerbie bombing: Brown's 'duplicity' threatens special relationshipDid he say "warned' the U.S.?! The article by Jon Swaine of "The Telegraph Media Group, Ltd., said "British "duplicity" towards the US over the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, may have ended the "special relationship" between the two countries …
In Recession, Homes Become Hair SalonsHair cutting is quickly becoming a "do-it-yourself" endeavor for the cash-conscious—and the results aren't so pretty, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Wall Street Journal Keep Mark Penn As Writer-Despite Obvious Conflict Of InterestThe New York Times Fired Ben Stein For Hawking Sleazy Credit Products While Writing About Financial Matters. Unbelievably The Wall Street Journal Decides To Keep Mark Penn. The Columnist Tries To Snag Clients For His P-R Business After He Writes About Them.
CtW Investment Group Calls for Whole Foods Board to Remove Chair and CEO John Mackey; Says Brand-Risk From His WSJ Anti-Healthcare Editorial UnacceptableThe CtW Investment Group called on the Whole Foods Market (NYSE: WFMI) board to remove CEO John Mackey as Chairman and to begin the process of naming a new CEO in a letter to Whole Foods' lead independent director, Dr. John Elstrott, yesterday afternoon.
More Miss Universe Costume Drama - StyleList Fashion BlogNow it seems Miss Universe Peru, 25-year-old Karen Schwarz, has a controversy-laden outfit that has neighboring country Bolivia up in arms.
Wall Street Journal Wants To Add $5 Trillion To The Federal Debt With Nonsensical Accountingexcerpt:."" .... along comes the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, claiming that the federal government should add $5 trillion to the national debt by accounting for the possible liabilities of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.....""
Americans still skeptical about Obama's plansAmericans remain skeptical about the White House's plans to reform the nation's health system, according to a new NBC News poll.
Whole Foods comes out against health care reform, calls it "socialism"The CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, just penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. It sounds like something written by Dick Armey with the help of Sarah Palin and the teabag brigade. I am absolutely shocked.
Murdoch signals end of free news"The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive methods of distribution," he added. "But it has not made content free. Accordingly, we intend to charge for all our news websites. I believe that if we are successful, we will be followed by other media.
What happened to original thought? What happened to being innovative? What the hell is going on the interwebs these days?
Cash From Clunkers Let's have a $4,500 subsidy for everything.Americans are streaming back into auto showrooms, and one reason is the "cash for clunkers" subsidy.
Poll numbers might not tell the entire storyThe recent wave of public polling hasn't been terrific news for the Obama White House. But a focus group of independents - some who voted for him and some who didn't - show a lot of support.
Americans Sour on Obama's health Plan, PoliciesPresident Barack Obama's struggling Presidency took another hit as new polls show more and more Americans now feel his health care reform proposals are "a bad idea" and an increasing number want him to slow down his spending sprees and work instead on reducing the national debt.
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