An 11% Rise for the S&P 500 in 2011?

That’s the average prediction for 11 analysts polled by Bloomberg News. Goldman Sachs’s David Kostin, Bloomberg’s most accurate U.S. strategist this year, is even more bullish. He says sales growth will spur a 17% rally in the …

Investors Don’t Credit Obama for What’s Going Right

A new Bloomberg poll shows 68% of investors say Obama’s policies are “detrimental to the U.S. investment climate.” That’s despite soaring corporate earnings and a huge bounceback in stock prices during his administration. Somew…

Can Groupon Find Itself a Good Venture Capital Deal?

After rumors last month that Yahoo had offered to buy coupon service Groupon for between $1.5 billion and $3 billion, the company is seeking an undisclosed amount of venture-capital funding at a valuation of between $2 billion …