Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed,… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
“If stupid people didn’t insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.” — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
“Rosette disappeared onto the dance floor. Wells sat in silence for a minute, watching the dancers. The worldwide cult of fast money spent stupidly.… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of shares available at the initial offering price. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image