Clearly, the MPT creators were once Mutual Fund investors, looking for something better after years of disappointing investment returns. True, mutual fund managers rarely beat the markets --- but why? And also true, private, individual, portfolio managers rarely fail to beat the market averages over significant time periods.

There was an article on Reuters over the weekend that former Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang was looking to buy the company, and take it private.

This begs the question: what does the former CEO see in the U.S. operations that no one else does?

Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) shares are spiking up again this morning, up another 2% continuing their run from earlier in the week.

What's behind the sudden move into a company some have called a "headless horseman"?

What some thought was impossible just a few months ago now looks more likely than ever.

There was a report out this morning by noted Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) bear Wedbush that the company could actually be acquired by, gasp, of all companies, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).