January 13 - January 19, 2008

Saturday, Jan. 19
The groundbreaking ceremony is being postponed for the third time, which is bound to raise questions on whether the much-ballyhooed...
Friday, Jan. 18
Well, at least when it comes to their own employees. Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici says that the average Zagat employee is...
The December jobless rate in L.A. County was 5.6 percent, up from 5.3 percent the previous month and 5 percent...
Here's another reality check for Writers Guild members: NBC Universal's 10 percent increase in fourth-quarter operating profit and 8 percent...
Will writers buy into directors deal?: Writers Guild President Patric Verrone isn't saying much ("We need to assess how this...
Thursday, Jan. 17
Susan Estrich, the Fox News columnist and USC law professor, has joined the L.A. powerhouse law firm of Quinn Emanuel,...
The tentative contract agreement with the networks and studios was just announced after six days of formal negotiations. the LAT...
When the chairman of the Federal Reserve testifies on Capitol Hill and strongly hints of more interest rate cuts, investors...
Merrill Lynch's medicine: Everybody expected a bad number, so the $9.8 billion fourth-quarter loss wasn't that much of a surprise...
Wednesday, Jan. 16
The February issue of the Conde Nast biz mag reviews Hollywood's financial winners and losers. Here's a sample of a...
The opening night of Fox's megahit beat out the network competition by a healthy margin, but viewership was 10 percent...
A planned 78-unit condo development on the corner of Wilshire and Barrington in West L.A. is on hold until June,...
High anxiety: Today, it's a profit warning from Intel and a 34 percent decline in earnings at JP Morgan. Markets...
Tuesday, Jan. 15
The Pasadena-based mortgage lender is cutting its work force by more than 2,400 people, or 24 percent. Regional wholesale mortgage...
The Bev Hills real estate investor gets the up close and personal treatment in a P1 WSJ profile in which...
Yep, he wore black during this morning’s presentation at Macworld in SF and introduced the stuff that had been expected...
The December median price in L.A. County was a jaw-dropping $470,000, which is down 10.5 percent from a year earlier...
Citi's ugly numbers: The bank's fourth-quarter loss weighed in at close to $10 billion, the result of $17.4 billion in...
Monday, Jan. 14
What really got Wall Street is a tizzy about the economy was last month's sour employment reports, which showed a...
This award show one seemed to be on safe ground, but now it seems that several big-name recording artists who...
The early writeups on last night's ratings point to the abysmally low viewership for NBC's hour-long program announcing the winners,...
Will directors cut quick deal? That's the Hollywood chatter this morning after contract talks over the weekend between the Directors...
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