James B Stewart

USA Inc: Woke vs greed

The author examines modern business realities through three new business books

$140 billion at stake: Jeff Bezos' divorce should worry Amazon investors

The fate of such controlling shares in cases of divorce is, or should be, of intense interest to investors

Deutsche Bank as next Lehman Brothers: Far-retched but not unthinkable

Should the bank precipitate a crisis, it's not clear how it would be resolved. It's a European bank, so the Fed's powers would be limited

Britain's dreams of a 'Swiss miracle' look more like a fantasy

Starbucks shares prosper by keeping pace with the coffee snobs

Trump & the art of narcissism

G is for Google

G is also for genericisation

James B Stewart: Do-it-all era ending as GE returns to core

GE's decision to get out of banking reflects the difficult environment facing financial services companies

Nasdaq changed in its climb to 5,000

James B Stewart: Those who nailed 2014 see volatility this year

Volatility could become the new normal in 2015, and we are likely to get a lot more of it than we have become used to

Tim Cook goes public: 'This will resonate'

A declaration of his sexuality by the influential Apple CEO Tim Cook will strike a blow for gay rights

Amid tumult, bonds prove steady

Alibaba debuts to roaring demand

The Jack Ma-founded giant, which raised $21.8 billion in its stock sale, instantly became one of the biggest publicly traded technology companies in the world

With $38 million Ferrari, classic car market revs up

At the Bonhams Quail Lodge auction, nine Ferrari models set records, as did a Rolls-Royce once owned by Elvis Presley

Fears of renewed instability as Fed ends stimulus

The Federal Reserve has said it expects to raise interest rates in 2015 for the first time since the financial crisis

When media mergers limit more than competition

Antitrust experts said a merger of 21st Century Fox and Time Warner posed far more serious regulatory issues than Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal

Norman Rockwell's art, once sniffed at, is becoming prized

Morgan Stanley reigns in Silicon Valley IPO market

Since Facebook's bumpy initial offering, it has been involved in 47 technology public offerings with a total value of $23.4 bn

If Steve Jobs were alive today, should he be in jail?

Jobs seems never to have read, or may have chosen to ignore, the first paragraph of the Sherman Antitrust Act

A tiny deal maker among giants, standing on his own