Devin Davis wanted to use his tablet for his online banking. But after one too many botched transfers from account to account — because of the imprecision of using the touchscreen without an application designed for the tablet — he went back to his laptop.
“I found myself going to my [...]
Jeff Gentz, a pilot for United Parcel Service, wanted to get his college diploma if he was going to keep lecturing his teenage daughter about the importance of a university degree.
So Gentz, a 42-year-old father of four in Neenah, Wisconsin, joined a growing number of mid-career students who are seizing [...]
Distressed debt funds are building up blocks of Greek government bonds with an eye to holding out against, and ultimately profiting from, a restructuring of Greece’s debt.
So-called “vulture funds” have had success in holding out against past sovereign restructurings, including those carried out by Argentina and Peru. Now, as negotiations have intensified [...]
A federal judge has said credit ratings are not always protected opinion under the First Amendment, a defeat for credit rating agencies in a lawsuit brought by investors who lost money on mortgage-backed securities.
The November 12 decision was a little-noticed setback for McGraw-Hill Cos’ Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Corp’s [...]
