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Changyou.com Appoints Dewen Chen as President

BEIJING, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Changyou.com Limited (“Changyou” or
the “Company”) (Nasdaq: CYOU), a leading online game developer and operator in
China, today announced that Mr. Dewen Chen, Changyou’s chief operating officer,
has been promote…

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Investment |

Richard Dickson Appointed President and Chief Executive Officer Branded Businesses of Jones Apparel Group, Inc.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Jones Apparel Group, Inc. (NYSE: JNY) today announced the appointment of Richard Dickson to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer – Branded Businesses of Jones Apparel Group, Inc., effective F…

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Investment |
 

Keith Hennessey Asks: What Does It Mean to Focus on Jobs?

And I am off to check his math… Keith: >What does it mean to focus on jobs?: The conventional Beltway logic is that the President used his State of the Union Address to “pivot to focus on job creation.” We have been told for a week or two that…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Economics |

Argentine central bank chief saga ends

It’s over.
After weeks of acrimonious fighting, Martín Redrado, the central bank president who President Cristina Fernández has been attempting to fire , accepted defeat.
Some background for those who haven’t been [...]

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |
 

NVHR Issues Challenge to Administration, Congress: Don’t Leave 5 Million Americans Afflicted with Chronic Viral Hepatitis Out in the Cold with Budget Freeze

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ms. Lorren Sandt, Chair of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) issued the following statement in advance of the President’s State of the Union Address.  NVHR is a coalition of more than 150…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Investment |

Goodrich Petroleum to Present at the EnerCom Oil & Services Conference VIII

HOUSTON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: GDP) today announced that the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Walter G. “Gil” Goodrich and President, Robert C. Turnham, Jr., will present at the EnerCom Oil & Serv…

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Investment |
 

The ECB de-coded

An old debate at the European Central Bank has just been reignited by Axel Weber, Bundesbank president. Speaking at a media prize ceremony in Hamburg he has repeated his concern [...]

[ More ] January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |

This Is Such a Disaster in the Making II

The *Economist*: “I understand the arguments from supporters… this is a political gambit… it won’t actually amount to much… a tool with which to co-opt the president’s moderate antagonists…. If this is the best the president can do, Democrats, …

[ More ] January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Economics |

A principled Europe would not leave Greece to bleed | Joseph Stiglitz

Unless it is one rule for the big and powerful and another for the small, the EU must stand behind Athens’ new leadershipGreece has been condemned by European officialdom for its huge deficits. “No government or state can expect from us any special treatment,” comes the warning from Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central [...]

[ More ] January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Economics |

Argentina: Redrado ‘no longer in charge’

In the ongoing battle between the central bank and the government, it appears the government has taken the advantage. Bank president Martin Redrado, 48, was prevented from entering the central [...]

[ More ] January 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |