The Traderszone Network

Greece is once again a bet reserved for the bravest of investors, including Third Point, York, Greylock and Alden.

Even as the probability of a Greek exit from the euro approaches even money, credit markets have, like the children of Hamelin, been hypnotized by the sweet sound of the ECB’s printing press which Pied Piper Draghi has promised to keep humming until at least a trillion new euros have been minted.

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Wal-Mart is raising wages because worker pride is vital to running a good retail business, CEO Doug McMillion told CNBC.

Stocks of cable television operators have been among the top performers in the market over the past three years, but now may be the time for investors to cut back, according to one prominent analyst.

China’s Lenovo Group Ltd, the world’s largest PC maker, said on Thursday it will no longer pre-install software that cybersecurity experts said was malicious and made devices vulnerable to hacking. Lenovo had come under fire from security researchers who said earlier on Thursday the company pre-installed a virus-like software from a company called Superfish on consumer laptops that hijacked web connections and allowed them to be spied upon.

The U.S. Justice Department’s victory on Thursday in its lawsuit against the credit card company might give merchants more leverage in their effort to cut the costs, which are largely hidden from consumers, and is the latest in a series of blows to the New York-based firm after partnerships with Costco Wholesale Corp. and JetBlue Airways Corp. ended. American Express failed to show that its so-called non-discrimination provisions, imposed on merchants who agree to accept its card, don’t harm competition, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn said in his ruling.

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