TheStreet.com, "Nightly Business Report" strike deal
TheStreet.com and PBS’ “Nightly Business Report” announced Monday an agreement for the financial news site’s writers to appear on the TV show’s programming. “Word on TheStreet” will feature interviews with TheStreet experts that explore strategies that are easy enough for more novice investors to follow but with insight that even the most sophisticated market watchers […]
Ex-Trader Monthly editor sued for libel
Randall Lane, the former editor in chief of Trader Monthly and a former Forbes journalist, has been sued for libel for writing earlier this week about a stock recommendation scheme involving former baseball player Lenny Dykstra and his involvement with TheStreet.com amd Jim Cramer. Sarah Weinman of DailyFinance.com writes, “The company Lane accuses of supplying […]
How Dykstra used Cramer and TheStreet.com
Randall Lane, the former editor of Trader Monthly, writes about how former baseball player Lenny Dysktra used his friendship with TheStreet.com co-founder Jim Cramer to make it appear he was a stock-picking genius on the market news Web site and elsewhere. Lane writes, “Cramer, I am sure, had no knowledge of Dykstra’s ‘pay to plug’ […]
TheStreet.com insiders, including Cramer, buying shares
Kathy Schwiff of Dow Jones Newswires reports Thursday that insiders at online financial news site TheStreet.com have been purchasing its shares. Some on Wall Street believe that’s a sign the stock price will rise. Schwiff writes, “Cramer supplied his viewers with a test case in the past month, spending $302,000 on 100,000 shares of TheStreet.com, […]
Trading stocks straight from online biz news articles
Joe Mont of TheStreet.com reports that online trading site Zecco has released some software that will allow people reading business news online to trade in the stocks mentioned in the articles directly from the page. Mont writes, “The next time you read a business article on a major news Web site, look for a small, […]
Lowe's headlines miss the mark
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs doesn’t like how Reuters and other media wrote their headlines recently about the earnings from home improvement retailer Lowe’s.
TheStreet.com hires chief market strategist as it prepares new products
Financial news site TheStreet.com announced Monday that it had hired Robert Walberg as the chief market strategist for its premium products and that Walberg will oversee the launch of some new products later this year. The first new service to be rolled out will be called “Options Profits,” to launch later this spring. Walberg will […]
Biz reporters use Cisco sell-off as reason to downplay earnings
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs doesn’t like how the business media reported Cisco’s earnings this week and used the after-market sell-off after the company reported stellar numbers to downplay the news.
Former Fortune, Money president named to TheStreet.com board
Vivek Shah, the former president of Fortune and Money magazines at Time Inc., has been named to the board of directors of TheStreet.com. “As one of the better known, but underappreciated stories in the media world, TheStreet has a unique opportunity to further develop its brand, reaching consumers and investors with a wide array of […]
Ignoring — or overplaying — Apple
TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs riffs on business media coverage of Apple, noting that a recent story was either ignored or overplayed.
