Many of the major pollsters and news organizations that conduct surveys have already begun testing the possible candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination and matching them against President Barack Obama. It’s an exercise probably more useful in gauging what voters think of them today than how they might feel next year. That’s particularly true [...]
Paul Sancya/Associated Press General Motors’ shares are set to start trading on Thursday morning, marking the end of a months-long effort to restore the company’s status as an average company, not a ward of the state. It priced at $33, the top end of the upgraded pricing range. But where will it close on Thursday? [...]
The American International Group is set to close the institutional book for the $15 billion AIA Group initial public offering two days ahead of schedule, amid signs the offering has been swamped by orders from traditional funds and prominent Chinese investors, Reuters said. A surge of large initial offerings has hit the Asian markets in [...]
Three-term Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is holding a slight lead over Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in California’s Senate race, according to two polls. A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Oct. 13 gave Boxer a bare 49 percent to 46 percent lead over Fiorina with 2 percent preferring some other candidate and 3 percent undecided. The margin [...]
A landmark California initiative that would legalize marijuana and allow local governments to tax drug proceeds is coming under fire from many sides these days, including some advocates of medical marijuana use. Despite leading in three of four public opinion surveys, the fate of Proposition 19 on the November ballot remains up in the air. [...]
Investors swindled by Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme may be happy to know that his 8,800-square-foot Palm Beach home is close to being sold — although the pricetag is drop in the bucket compared with Mr. Madoff’s $65 billion fraud. The lakefront house belonging to the imprisoned financier and his wife, Ruth, which has been [...]
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