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Byline: Brett Arends How to do you top a 59 percent annual return? That's what the On State Street portfolio did last year. I can't believe we'll come anywhere close […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS If you're a conservative and you live in New England, Texas Governor Rick Perry wants YOU. The enterprising red state honcho is taking out advertisements on right-wing […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Whatever Steve Jobs unveils at next week's Macworld powwow in San Francisco, it had better be spectacular. For Jobs, the CEO of Apple and high priest of […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS There are three words that Ben Hatfield, chief executive of mining company International Coal, is going to hear a lot more about in the next few days […]

Byline: Brett Arends Keep your eye on emerging markets in 2006. They've just completed their third spectacular year, and the question on a growing number of lips is: How long […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS If you managed to get hold of an Xbox 360 in time for Christmas, you may be thanking eBay. Stores sold out almost as soon as Microsoft's […]

Byline: Brett Arends If you've been within 30 feet of a working TV this holiday season, you may have asked yourself two questions. Who the heck is "Tony Sinclair"? And […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS When it comes to the 2008 presidential election, Mitt Romney's current standing in the opinion polls fits the old joke about the campaign adviser determined to cheer […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Waltham hedge fund manager Michael Tom was charged yesterday with five counts of insider trading over a deal involving Citizens Bank. Tom, who managed and partly owned […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Jim Tobin yesterday became the Tammy Wynette of Wall Street. The Boston Scientific CEO is standing by his plan to take over medical devices rival Guidant, Inc. […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS If you think politics arouses strong passions, try writing about Apple. Earlier this week I made the mild suggestion that the company take advantage of its soaring […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Boston private equity giant Thomas H. Lee Partners hit out yesterday at suggestions that its founder, chairman and the man with his name on the door was […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Did you hear the one about Mitt Romney and the Bush dynasty going into the doughnut business together? Don't laugh. Dunkin' Donuts was bought last week by […]

Byline: Brett Arends If you paid a financial adviser thousands of dollars to manage your investments this year, you're probably up around 6 percent. If you paid tens of thousands […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Santa's got a new look. He's swapped the old red suit for black jeans and a roll-neck. He's lost weight and trimmed his beard. Oh yes, and […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS At last someone is standing up to the boardroom greed of ExxonMobil. Step forward Hub fund manager Julie Goodridge, who has pluckily demanded the oil giant review […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS If William Gardner, New Hampshire's secretary of state, really wants to shake things up, maybe he should threaten to bring his state's presidential primary forward by two […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS If Mitt Romney fails in a quest for the White House, it won't be for lack of money. The governor's personal fortune, built up over two decades […]

Byline: Brett Arends Mitt Romney yesterday demonstrated a key attribute for a president: the ability to put a good spin on weak economic news. The governor, as he announced he […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Geez, when I wrote last week that the Globe had become "the worst performing division of the stock-market's worst performing newspaper company," I never imagined that a […]

Byline: Brett Arends Fidelity's huge and growing $8 billion Google stake has grabbed plenty of attention. Less well known is that the Fidelity money managers taking the biggest gamble on […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS The Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square is fighting for its life. With just three weeks to go, the emergency fund-raising campaign for the historic independent cinema has […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Red Sox Nation begins its annual stampede tomorrow morning. The first batch of 2006 tickets goes on sale at 9 a.m.. For many, the quest will be […]

Byline: Brett Arends Wall Street usually cheers when a company announces deep cost cuts. But that hasn't been the case for our crosstown rivals, the Boston Globe. Publisher Richard Gilman […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS It's bad news for the national economy if you have an easy ride in to work this morning. It would be much better if you got stuck […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Can corporate America survive without its BlackBerries? That's a question Hub executives were asking yesterday, after a court ruling raised again the possibility that the e-mail devices […]

Byline: JAY FITZGERALD and BRETT ARENDS Procter & Gamble Co. is preparing hundreds of job offers for Gillette Co. workers who agree to move to Cincinnati. Raymond Buse III, a […]

Byline: Brett Arends So they're moving you to Cincinnati. I know you may be disappointed that you're among the Gillette Co. staff who has to relocate to Procter & Gamble's […]

Byline: Brett Arends Deutsche Bank may dump Scudder name. At the end of the First World War, the Germans scuttled their navy rather than hand it over. Now they seem […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS How do you sell a Massachusetts governor to today's Republican party? Mitt Romney is pondering a run for the White House - and the Herald has obtained […]

Byline: Brett Arends Will the last person out please turn off the Christmas - er, "Holiday" - tree lights? The airlines have added plenty of extra seats out of Logan […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Jim Kilts is moving up in the world. Two months ago, the Gillette CEO called himself "Boston's Pinata." Now he's getting whacked on Wall Street, too. Procter […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Gov. Mitt Romney's former top economic adviser has joined the chorus attacking the retroactive 2002 tax hike - after it slapped one of his trust funds with […]

Byline: Brett Arends It will be about four hours direct from Logan to Havana. But when flights resume, good luck trying to find a seat in business class. It will […]

Byline: Brett Arends It wouldn't be fair to say that everyone who can walk is doing so. But a lot of Advest financial advisers around the region are picking up […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Students around the world dream of getting into Harvard. If the university gets the vote it wants today, that will soon be the case for janitors as […]

Byline: Brett Arends A 71-year-old man turns up at a "Senior Citizen Town Hall" meeting in Worcester, and ends up locking $700,000 away in an invesment for at least five […]

Byline: Brett Arends For decades, if you were a college student, you wanted to get a part-time job in a record store. You could work irregular hours. You could hang […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS A Cape Cod software company that named a program after the local cranberries is being sued for alleged trademark infringement by Canada's maker of the BlackBerry e-mail […]

Byline: Brett Arends Bob Stanksy has barely cleared his desk at Fidelity, and already he's getting his revenge. Two weeks ago, when Stanksy was ousted as manager of the jumbo […]

Byline: Brett Arends An open letter to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank: Dear Congressman, You're right to force runaway executive pay into the open, and your new bill is a good […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS and JAY FITZGERALD U.S. Rep. Barney Frank yesterday took direct aim at soaring executive pay, citing the massive windfalls for "Pinata" Jim Kilts and former FleetBoston honcho […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS I can't wait to see Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Meg Whitman publicly horsewhipped on the steps of Capitol Hill for price "gouging." And how entertaining it […]

Byline: Brett Arends If you think the new commercials attacking Mitt Romney over car insurance sound desperate, you should hear the defense of the people behind them. You've probably heard […]

Byline: Brett Arends Waltham hedge fund Groundswell Partners had its assets frozen yesterday after the Securities & Exchange Commission accused it of losing millions of dollars of client money on […]

Byline: Brett Arends As if Red Sox owner John Henry didn't have enough problems, new figures suggest he is heading for his worst year in the markets in recent memory. […]

Byline: Brett Arends Red Sox fans need to remember one thing about John Henry. Throughout his career, it's always been about the numbers. He made his fortune as a financial […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Hub "car sharing" company Zipcar has seen new signups jump by around 30 percent since fuel prices went through the roof in the middle of August. It's […]

Byline: Brett Arends Theo's gone. Larry's nowhere to be seen. And John Henry seems to be losing his grip. That seemed to be the message from Red Sox management yesterday […]

Byline: Brett Arends How could John Henry allow the Theo Epstein fiasco to happen? The answer may not lie in Fenway Park, but a thousand miles away in Boca Raton, […]