Welcome to the latest offshoot of the subprime-mortgage debacle: A burgeoning U.S. pension-fund crisis. Since the global financial crisis struck last fall, the largest 1,500 U.S. public companies have lost a combined $280 billion from their pension funds.

Warren Buffett ranks number one on Directorship magazine's new list of the most admired board directors. Its Annual Survey of Exceptional Directors is compiled using "data from proxy firms, reader polls and governance experts."

IBMs announcement of a stock buyback plan really lifted wall street today.

The best stocks of the next decade are not huge companies today. Why not? This chart should explain. Look how large each of these solid businesses would become if they increased just 10 times in value over the next decade:

A comparison of IBM's enterprise marketing efficiency and market share from 1991 through 2000 with Compaq, Dell and Hewlett-Packard. It's performance is likened to the enterprise marketing efficiency and market share of Microsoft in 2006 just prior to Google's purchase of Double-Click.

IBM reported bottom line earnings last night of $1.21 per share, exactly the consensus earnings estimate on Wall Street. Jeff Matthews discusses how even after all the reforms of Sarbox this is just like in the good old days. It makes you wonder if no matter how much things change, whether some things will always remain the same.