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Andrew Ross-Sorkin: the journalist king of Wall Street

Andrew Ross-Sorkin has built a business journalism empire around his New York Times column, but many of his colleagues think his reputation is undeserved. New York Magazine meets the man behind the column inches.

Morning Market Report

The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.

The nation’s pundits begin their predictions…

We’ve got them all, Graham Richardson, Andrew Bolt, Kim Beazley, Karl Stefanovic, astrologer Milton Black and callers Wayne and Warren. Crikey presents, the nation’s pick to win. Here’s what pundits have predicted on TV and radio…

Morning Market Report

The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.

Placido Domingo of hedge fund industry calls “doozy of recession”

Julian Robertson is a name most Crikey readers will not know. To use a Keating rhetorical flourish, he could be described as the Placido Domingo of the hedge fund industry, writes Matt Marks.

Everyone unloads on Macquarie, stock keeps recovering

Macquarie Bank shares soared today despite supposedly influential US stock picker Jim Cramer devoting his entire 6-minute sell segment on CNBC last Friday to the Millionaire Factory.

Macquarie strengthens the Fortress as shares recover

Macquarie Bank shares have bounced by $4.30 to $74.35 in a recovering market this morning and the Macquarie Fortress notes have gained 6c to 64c after this announcement yesterday suggesting that all is not lost.

Murdoch’s WSJ: The jewel in the crown

If Rupert Murdoch has indeed landed Dow Jones for $US5.5 billion, it will be the crowning glory of his remarkable 55 year empire building crusade that started in sleepy Adelaide way back in October 1952.