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Harold Maass of The Week The Best of Today's Business

Harold Maass of The Week

"The Best of Today's Business" is a summary of the day's financial news and opinion, produced by the editors of The Week magazine and Yahoo! Finance. Columnist Harold Maass sifts through business reports in newspapers and on the web, surfacing the top news. "The Best of Today's Business" appears every weekday morning exclusively on Yahoo! Finance. View Harold's Bio

Panic in Tokyo, Frenzy Over Guidant
2006-01-18 08:24:06
A sell-off overwhelms the Tokyo exchange. Boston Scientific sweetens its bid for Guidant, again. It just got easier to track the boss' pay. And oil prices rise again, this time because of political trouble. ...Read full article
Oil's Wild Ride, Citigroup Falls Short
2006-07-17 08:10:59
Oil prices stay volatile as Middle East violence continues. Citigroup reports tepid profit growth just short of forecasts. And CBS serves up "egg-vertising," but will viewers bite? ...Read full article
Pipeline Fever, and Vodafone's Mixed Bag
2006-05-30 10:29:41
Kinder Morgan brass and investors propose taking the gas-pipeline giant private. Vodafone reports a big loss but soothes investors with bigger dividends. And are unpaid internships poisoning the economy? ...Read full article
Shake-up at Sun, and Lay Speaks Up
2006-04-25 08:23:59
Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy quits as CEO. Enron founder Ken Lay declares his innocence. Big Oil does well. And perhaps it's best if the living and the dead travel separately. ...Read full article
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