Goldman Sachs makes Warren Buffett an offer he can’t refuse (Business Week)

JP Morgan steals WaMu’s deposit base, just months after stealing Bear Stearns (Bloomberg)

A new market for trading bankruptcy claims is emerging (Financial Times)

Where the pros put their money in this volatile market (Marketwatch)

America’s biggest billionaire losers (Forbes)

Oil experiences its biggest one-day climb (Telegraph)

The current market volatility has some fund managers salivating (Marketwatch)

PIMCO’s chief calls for a military strike against the U.S. financial system (CNBC)

The Blue Chips are on sale (Marketwatch)

Will WaMu go under because the masses perceive it as going under? (Business Week)

The Fed takes over AIG (International Herald Tribune)

Reserve Fund “breaks the buck” sending chills through the money market industry (Marketwatch)

Are your Merrill Lynch accounts safe? (Wall Street Journal)

Best Buy purchases Napster (Atlanta Business Chronicle)

Hedge fund managers hit hard times, relatively speaking (New York Times)

Ken Heebner hopes to cash in with new hedge fund, clearly tired of earning just a measly management fee (Bloomberg)

Mel Karmazin thinks that terrestrial radio “sucks” (Hollywood Reporter)

Warren Buffett comments on Fannie and Freddie (Marketwatch)

Morningstar looks at some of this year’s top fund managers (Morningstar)

The London Stock Exchange shuts down for seven hours on a huge trading day (Times Online)

United Airlines shares get hammered on news from 2002 (Washington Post)

Atticus hedge fund has reportedly lost more than $5 billion (Forbes)

Mohamed El-Erian to become CEO of Pimco (Bloomberg)

Buffett’s HomeServices unit looks for vulture real estate brokerage acquisitions with its cash hoard (Bloomberg)

How to emulate the Harvard endowment’s investing success (Marketwatch)

Lehman’s Richard Fuld tenuously hangs on to his job (Washington Post)

Coca-Cola pays dearly for Chinese fruit-juice maker (Bloomberg)

Using the market’s P/E ratio as a guide to annual withdrawals during retirement (Registered Rep)

Pimco readies its launch of actively managed ETFs (Index Universe)

CD yields are much higher than long-term bonds (Marketwatch)

Do U.S. stocks provide the best investment opportunities right now versus international stocks? (Marketwatch)

T. Boone Pickens and NBC argue over whether the network banned his latest foreign oil ad (Hollywood Reporter)

Has Warren Buffett lost his touch? Of course not. (Tech Ticker)

Do individual investors need hedge funds? (CNBC)

Should closed funds still charge 12b-1 fees, which are supposedly used to cover marketing and distribution expenses? (Marketwatch)

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Ironically, Fannie and Freddie are enjoying big profits in this credit environment (Bloomberg)

Bank earnings fall to near-record lows (Marketwatch)

Seven of the 10 best-selling funds in July were ETFs (Marketwatch)

Private equity shops consider purchasing Lehman’s asset management divisions (Telegraph)

Lehman’s potential sale of Neuberger Berman could lead to big changes for the boutique money manager (Marketwatch)

An inside look at an AOL founder’s family office (Washington Post)

Mid-caps may be the market’s sweet spot (Business Week)

Buffett and other business leaders weigh in on the U.S.’s heavy debt load (Reuters)

Muni bonds look very attractive today (Morningstar)

Former CNBC reporter Ron Insana’s short-lived adventure as a hedge fund manager (Internation Herald Tribune)

Hedge funds demonstrate their low correlation to the stock market during tough times (Hedgeco.net)

Is Kerkorian interested in owning MGM for the fourth time? (Hollywood Reporter)

Ryan Jacob, the money manager who famously rode the Internet bubble all the way up and then all the way back down, is still picking technology stocks

Powershares becomes the first quantitative-active ETF shop to earn five stars from Morningstar (Morningstar)

Morningstar is beyond bearish on old-line newspaper stocks (Morningstar)

Gasoline now costs more than cars (Bloomberg)

Contrarians show courage in today’s market by purchasing financials (Bloomberg)

Jim Simons continues to outperform is his flagship Medallion fund (NY Post)

Carl Icahn’s investments are struggling this year (NY Post)

Sovereign funds become big speculators (Washington Post)

Deutsche Bank launches ETNs based on the work of Ben Graham (Index Universe)

Suspicious put buying preceded the fall of Bear Sterns (Bloomberg)

Dubai buys a stake in Cirque de Soleil (Hollywood Reporter)

Merrill is guaranteed a mere 5.5 cents for its CDOs (Business Week)

A look at Morningstar’s stock picking prowess (Morningstar)

Google sets up VC division (Atlanta Business Chronicle)

Exxon breaks its own record for quarterly profits (Washington Post)

Bill Miller’s recent underperformance has erased a decade’s worth of market-beating returns (Morningstar)

The real story behind Merrill’s recent financial realignment (Reuters)

Merrill Lynch puts a 22-cent price tag on its troubled loans (CNBC)

Wind ETFs rely too heavily on exposure to energy and utilities (Morningstar)

Be wary of the 11% yield (Marketwatch)

KKR will go public without the instant payday of Blackstone (Financial Times)

PIMCO will launch its first bond ETF (Reuters)

Where to find value in this turbulent market (Marketwatch)

GE reduces the number of business units from six to four but presumably still uses all Six Sigma (Yahoo)

Ford continues to hemorrhage money (Washington Post)

What’s in a name? Banks grapple with naming rights payments while there balance sheets crumble (Business Week)

Bill Gross expects mortgage writedowns to hit $1 trillion (Bloomberg)

UBS is targeted for its role in selling troubled auction-rate securities (CNBC)

Toyota will surpass GM in auto sales (International Herald Tribune)

Donald Trump, Jr. sets up a $1 billion fund to buy properties in India (Bloomberg)

Bank of America will buy back stock and stick with its healthy dividend (San Francisco Business Times)

Jeff Immelt is under fire at GE (Business Week)

Top financial advisors are still in demand if they can bring the money (Business Week)

Larry Coats at Oak Value discusses his recent stock picks (Marketwatch)

The short sellers are cleaning up on Wall Street in record numbers (Bloomberg)

Pzena gets whacked by Fannie and Freddie investments (Marketwatch)

Exchange Traded Notes have received mixed interest from investors (Wall Street Journal)

Citigroup posts fresh losses (NY Times)

Google’s latest earnings fail to meet expectations (Mercury News)

Mattel wins case against Bratz maker (NY Times)

Sam Nazarian attempts to remake the Sahara and continue building his luxury empire (Wall Street Journal)

Hedge funds wait nervously to see how their automotive investments play out (Financial Times)

Have financials bottomed out? (Marketwatch)

Fund managers are extremely negative on equities (Reuters)

Paramount just missed the hedge fund gravy train (The Business Sheet)

Second quarter earnings should be weak across the board (Business Week)

As the market plummets, Wall Street divorces skyrocket (NY Post)

Why has Bill Miller underperformed by such a wide margin this year? (Morningstar)

Things are different this time, Morningstar’s thoughts on the current bear market (Morningstar)

Franklin Raines looks back on his legacy at Fannie Mae (Washington Post)

Naked shorting can surely be blamed for some of the market’s recent volatility (Washington Post)

Market turmoil leads many investors to try options, which can be far riskier than the broad market (Marketwatch)

The complex dance between Jerry Yang and Microsoft continues in Sun Valley (NY Times)

Off-balance-sheet worries loom for Citigroup (International Herald Tribune)

Yahoo’s Tech Ticker comes up with a reason to link Heidi Klum to stock picking (Yahoo Tech Ticker)

Investors struggle to predict the bear market's effect on exchange stocks (Business Week)

How the various global markets performed during the first half of 2008 (Marketwatch)

InBev reaches deal to purchase Budweiser (Wall Street Journal)

Yahoo scoffs at Microsoft’s latest “absurd” takeover offer (Mercury News)

Failure of IndyMac may lead to other bank failures (NY Times)

SEC begins looking into how rumors affect the markets (Reuters)

Dick Wolf and NBC squabble over the Law & Order fortune (Wall Street Journal)

InBev ups the ante in its bid for Bud (Atlanta Business Chronicle)

Test driving the house (aka kicking the bedposts) (Market Watch)

When $100 million is not enough (The Money Times)

Hedgestock: Peace, Love and Money (Taipei Times)

Carl Icahn's investing prowess is being tested (Boston Globe)

All for one and one for all, a lesson in TIC investing (Market Watch)

New movie, August, captures the rise and fall of an Internet entrepreneur (Portfolio)

Ken Lewis reaffirms his belief that BofA’s Countrywide purchase will pay off (LA Times)

Seller’s remorse, when founders regret selling their entrepreneurial babies (NY Times)

Private equity owners may actually improve their acquisition targets (Financial Week)

Frontier ETFs slice and dice the international investment universe (Index Universe)

Even celebrities are feeling the foreclosure pain (Yahoo)

Mutual fund pioneer, John Templeton, has passed away (Market Watch)

Lehman is bearish on media stocks (Variety)

Wal-Mart issues Shanghai bonds, first in 29 years for a retailer (Bloomberg)

InBev makes Bud an all-cash offer (Bloomberg)

Buffett bets $1 million that the S&P 500 will beat hedge funds over the next 10 years (Yahoo Tech Ticker)

Did you receive two stimulus checks? How about none? (Marketwatch)

How leverage affects financial firms (Morningstar)

ETFs continue to gain appeal with financial advisors (Investment News)

Morningstar’s take on the Dow: it’s extremely cheap! (Morningstar)

Smucker’s purchases Folgers using the reverse Morris Trust tax savings chicanery (Washington Post)

David Marriott positions himself to take on more responsibility at the hotel chain (Washington Post)

Wall Street banks move into the clearing business (Bloomberg)

Warren Buffett’s take on bank stocks (Morningstar)

Disney quietly profits from small venture capital investments (Businessweek)

Three reasons to sell a stock (Marketwatch)

The mortgage debacle continues to exacerbate (CNBC)

Lehman goes after the shorts (Barron’s)

An inside look at Jim Simons’ trading strategies (Yahoo Tech Ticker)

The days of the mega-buyouts are over for now (Financial Week)

Carl Icahn continues pressure on Yahoo (Washington Post)

Steve Ballmer discusses Yahoo (Washington Post)

Foreclosure reaches the celebrity set (Wall Street Journal)

GM is considering shedding its Hummer line (Washington Post)

Do active ETFs have a future? (EFinancial News)

TiVo’s stock price is stuck on pause (Hollywood Reporter)

Bill Miller discusses credit crisis (Morningstar)

The secret plot to sell Dow Chemical (NY Times)

JP Morgan may be a suitor for Wachovia (Atlanta Business Chronicle)

The avalanche of alternative investment vehicles continues but use them carefully (Seeking Alpha)

The housing market downturn spreads to the middle (International Herald Tribune)

An inside look at credit default swaps (International Herald Tribune)

Startup Mixx allows users to choose their news (Washington Post)

LifeLock tries to burnish its image by working with Google CFO Reyes, wonder what his social security number is? (Marketwatch)

Morningstar’s take on the cigarette business: it’s a drag (Morningstar)

Sears is causing loses for a lot of smart money (Wall Street Journal)

Former NFL players sue players’ union over fraudulent hedge fund manager (Sports Illustrated)

Getting rich by starting a hedge fund is becoming more difficult (Reuters)

Robert Sillerman lowers bid to take American Idol producer private (NY Post)

Buffett speaks to German media (Spiegel)

Meet inflation-linked corporate bonds (Marketwatch)

An inside look at Berkshire Hathaway’s five-star holdings (Morningstar)

Relational Investors adds to Home Depot stake (Barron’s)

Jensen is a long-term winner in the large-cap mutual fund space (Marketwatch)

Miami condos for rent on the cheap (Marketwatch)

Bill Miller discusses concentrated positions (Morningstar)

Bill Gross thinks that U.S. inflation is grossly understated (Marketwatch)

The new environment for M&A deals (Businessweek)

Commodities bubble? (Yahoo Tech Ticker)

Long-short funds fail to hold up in down market (Chicago Tribune)

Arpad Busson, the hedge fund hippy (Sunday Times)

The auction rate dilemma (Bloomberg)

PowerShares launches ETFs of ETFs (Index Universe)

Bill Miller talks value investing in the technology sector (Morningstar)

Countrywide's Mozilo needs to learn the difference between "reply" and "forward" (Yahoo)

Corporate insiders are not selling shares just yet (Marketwatch)

Oops! Moody's accidentally hit the AAA button (Financial Times)

Jim Cramer talks media stocks (Hollywood Reporter)

Warren Buffett talks about his investing discipline in Switzerland

Speculators are causing inflation in commodity prices (Morningstar)

Quant managers seek new models (Financial News)

Buffett is scouring Europe for new purchases (Bloomberg)

Chris Davis looks for bargains in this down market (Morningstar)

New ETFs aim to triple your upside and downside (Marketwatch)

An inside look at Ron Paul's personal investments (L.A. Times)

Is it 1999 again? CBS will buy CNET for $1.8 billion (Variety)

Yahoo "disagrees" with Icahn (Yahoo)

Yahoo "disagrees" with Icahn (Yahoo)