February 25 - March 3, 2007
Friday, Mar. 2
Two Socal financial institutions are under the gun for making subprime residential loans, which are loans to folks with weak...
In these nervous-making times, markets can get extra jittery on a Friday afternoon. Weekends mean two full days to ruminate...
Sometimes nuance can be a very big deal - as in describing what former Fed chief Alan Greenspan said about...
Is this really the end? Boeing has told its top C-17 suppliers that it will stop ordering parts because the...
January's 4.6 percent jobless rate is up from 4.5 percent a month earlier, but it's still very low - lower...
It's turning out to be more than a one-day rout after all. The Dow was down around 100 points with...
All clear now?: The Dow seems to be back to normal this morning (it's down around 15 points in early...
Thursday, Mar. 1
The Oracle of Omaha's annual letter to shareholders is remarkable both for its folksy touches (shopping tips for Berkshire Hathaway...
That's the challenge presented to Oracle founder and occasional Malibu resident Larry Ellison. You see $30 million is what Ellison...
Kevin Sharer, who has not seemed very concerned about studies raising safety concerns of Amgen drugs, is suddenly sounding a...
As often happens when bidness news becomes front-page news, there's a lot that gets lost in the translation. This week's...
Settling down: This is shaping up to be a very volatile day on Wall Street. The Dow opened down 200...
Wednesday's semi-recovery seemed way too tentative - and so we have the Dow down around 175 points in the first...
Wednesday, Feb. 28
Computer Sciences Corp., the big data processing company based in El Segundo, did an interesting thing today. It notified the...
Shares of the Santa Monica-based mortgage lender were down 20 percent this morning after the company postponed filing its fourth-quarter...
It was built for the 120-episode ABC series that ran from 1966 to 1968, and some unidentified private collector sold...
The just-posted NYT story said the market "showed tentative signs of recovery" and that pretty much sums up a 60-point...
Market opening: The Dow is up after an hour of trading, but not by that much - about 80 points....
Tuesday, Feb. 27
Throw a batch of more data onto the debate. This time, it's a University of California at Davis economist who...
And it's not one of the names that have been bandied about. Several news organizations are reporting this afternoon that...
How bad a day was it? Well, at one point during the session 1.46 billion of the 1.5 billion shares...
At a little after 11, the Dow was down more than 200 points. As is often the case during really...
Market down sharply: The Dow is off more than 120 points in early action, probably in response to a huge...
Monday, Feb. 26
There's being generous - and being ridiculous. By having an unlimited grace period to return consumer electronics products for a...
The numbers are still preliminary, but it looks as if the veeeery lengthy telecast actually drew a slightly larger audience...
A short story in the Sunday paper (picked up by Talking Biz) notes that business coverage moves to the back...
The L.A.-based Spanish-language network being slapped with a $24 million fine for trying to pass off telenovelas as children's programming...
Superchef Joachim Splichal is getting into the chain steakhouse business. Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group Inc. is being acquired by...
"The Departed" financials: This year's best picture is shaping up to be a solid financial success. Box Office Mojo reports...
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The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
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