Love it or hate it, the $810 billion, pork-laden bailout is now a fact. After all the preaching and political maneuvering, the market reacted to its passage on Friday with a yawn, followed by a sharp drop. But one thing I do know about the bailout is this. The government won’t be spending a trillion dollars without some companies making huge bucks.

For some time now, weekends spell a period of trepidation for investors as the Pandora’s box is opened. Bizarre announcements of historical takeovers, bankruptcies and government interventions left investors grabbing for straws in a cesspool when trading resumed on Mondays.

Goldman Sachs is getting a $5 billion investment from Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway.

For Christmas tax payers will receive a bill for $700 billion.

The Chinese economy is different to ours — and an increase in price could actually BOOST oil consumption.

Morgan Stanley's earnings dropped 57 percent in the second quarter as revenue from asset management and investment banking declined while equities and fixed-income traders generated less profit.

Goldman Sachs just filed for a $350 million blank-check IPO which promises to change the rules of the SPAC game via a company called Liberty Lane Acquisition Corp.

The legal fallout from the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States continued yesterday as Goldman Sachs conceded for the first time that it was the target of legal action and law firms prepared a fresh round of lawsuits, this time focusing on mortgage bond insurers such as MBIA and Ambac.