The 2010 Fortune 500 List
Airtime: Thurs. Apr. 15 2010 | 6:32 AM ET
Wal-Mart is back in the top spot of the Fortune 500 list. Leigh Gallagher, Fortune senior editor, discusses this and other notable changes.
Airtime: Thurs. Apr. 15 2010 | 6:32 AM ET
Wal-Mart is back in the top spot of the Fortune 500 list. Leigh Gallagher, Fortune senior editor, discusses this and other notable changes.
West African-focused miner Randgold Resources reported a 79% jump in full-year profit, benefiting from high gold prices and record production. It plans to raise its full-year dividend by 30%. “It was a great year,” CEO Mark Bristow said Monday. “We strengthened our balance sheet through last year.”
Art Cashin, head of floor operations at UBS, has the buzz from the NYSE.
World energy leaders are turning very bullish on the outlook for natural gas at the annual CERTA Conference in Houston. CNBC’s Sharon Epperson talks to Helge Lund, CEO of Statoil, the world’s largest offshore oil and gas company.
Roach: US Jobless Rate Actually Stands at 11.5%.Official data showed U.S. jobless rate in February remain unchanged at 9.7% but Stephen Roach, Asia chairman at Morgan Stanley, believes the real number actually stands at 11.5%. He explains why this discrepancy, with CNBC’s Martin Soong, Karen Tso & Sri Jegarajah.
CNBC’s Jim Goldman discusses reports that Apple is getting ready to release a new phone that will work on Verizon’s network.
Everybody is so bearish about the euro that it looks like now is a good time to buy the single European currency, Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC Thursday. The only big bull markets Rogers sees in the next decade is commodities and he suggests having real assets such as cotton, silver and natural gas for protection in these markets.