IPO VIEW-History no guide for IPO turnaround timing | Deals | IPOs | Reuters : "The market for initial public offerings is facing its worst drought in decades, and history gives few clues as to when the market will turn around. The IPO market has typically reopened fairly soon after a slumping ... Read more

Want to learn while you do other things such as laundry, household chores, driving? Listen to the NY Times Weekend Business Podcast . It gives a nice recap of the week, plus some investment advice from John Bogle (the founder of Vanguard) ... Read more at http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Financep ... Read more

Wouldn't you have loved to be there for this one? Deal Heavyweights on the Future of M&A - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- DealBook - New York Times : "The panelists — Stephen Friedman, the retired chairman of Goldman Sachs and the current Chairman of the Federal R ... Read more

Greenspan - Bad data hurt Wall Street computer models - NYTimes.com : "Greenspan told the committee. 'The whole intellectual edifice, however, collapsed in the summer of last year because the data inputted into the risk management models generally covered only the past two decades a period of e ... Read more

Great story and had finance and world series ties. Cashing in on hope - MLB - Yahoo! Sports : "Marger, a lifelong St. Petersburg resident and season-ticket holder since the team’s inception in 1998, stands to win $25,000 on a $100 bet he placed at Bally’s last November during a quick swing ... Read more

Emanuel Derman's Blog: A speech by Leo Melamed, reproduced here with his permission : "Financial Innovation Conference Vanderbilt University October 16, 2008 Nashville The Law of Selective Gravity By Leo Melamed The first course: "There is no way to sugar coat it: Current economic conditions ... Read more

Citadel Hit Hard as Hedge Fund Withdrawals Continue - Seeking Alpha : "The chief executive of a leading alternative investment manager said he expected the hedge fund industry to shrink by 50 per cent in coming months – with half the decline coming from withdrawals and half coming from invest ... Read more

WOW! Now and then you get an email that changes your whole day for the better. That was what I just got from Jacob over at MoneyScience.com . WOW. I definitely know what I will be doing! Watching and listening. It does not et much better. The opportunity to listen in on one of the most respected F ... Read more

Southwest's infatuation with fuel hedges backfires - MarketWatch : "Given oil's relentless ascent, investors have been dumbfounded that Southwest's hedging program wasn't universally used by other airlines, who unfailingly blame their weak financial performance in part on rising fuel costs. Then ... Read more

While I still think he should have won the Nobel Prize for Economics, at least this will soothe the pain. FT.com / Business education - Chicago professor wins Onassis Prize: "Chicago finance professor Eugene Fama is the inaugural winner of the $250,000 Onassis Prize, which is awarded every two ... Read more