By: Newsday (New York)
Combined news services
While no one was saying the worst is over for the staggering financial system or troubled economy, several factors contributed to yesterday's biggest single-day point gain for the Dow:
By: Investor's Business Daily
JED GRAHAM
The U.S. government on Tuesday will announce plans to inject up to $250 billion into banks as well as other sweeping guarantees.
That follows dramatic steps by European nations to shore up their banking systems. Those moves --...
By: Christian Science Monitor
Peter Grier, Robert Marquand and Mark Rice-Oxley
As governments of the industrialized world struggle with the global credit crisis, they may be relearning an old lesson: there is more strength in standing together than in struggling alone. The international nature of capital...
By: Los Angeles Times
Achrene Sicakyuz and Sebastian Rotella, Times Staff Write
European leaders agreed Sunday on a coordinated rescue plan to guarantee inter-bank lending, inject cash into the banking sector and take other measures to beat back the crisis caused by the global financial meltdown.
At an...
By: Los Angeles Times
Ken Bensinger, Times Staff Writer
General Motors Corp. and Chrysler are discussing possible alliances or a merger, after GM had previously discussed a working alliance with Ford Motor Co., according to two people familiar with the companies.
By: USA TODAY
Ken Dilanian
WASHINGTON -- During last week's presidential debate, John McCain and Barack Obama sparred over what caused the financial crisis. "The match that lit this fire," McCain said, came from the government-sponsored mortgage companies...
By: Grand Rapid Press (Michigan)
Exorbitant executive pay packages and scant regulation of complex investments even those selling them didn't fully understand were major points of contention in the $700 billion Wall Street bailout.
By: PC Magazine.com
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An investor advisory firm has deemed Sprint Nextel Corp executives the most overpaid in corporate America, with top managers awarded pay valued at nearly $74 million last year when the company struggled. The...
By: The Business Times Singapore
AS a governance responsibility, CEO succession is arguably the most important decision that boards will make. Given the volatility in today's financial markets and regional economies, shareholders are demanding the right to...
By: Los Angeles Times
Walter Hamilton, Times Staff Writer
In a fitting end to the worst week on Wall Street since the Great Depression, the stock market underwent a titanic battle between greed and fear Friday as stock prices rallied from two bone-rattling sell-offs only to fade late in...
By: Los Angeles Times
Jim Puzzanghera, Richard Simon, Michael A. Hiltzik, Times
In an extraordinary response to the escalating financial crisis, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson said Friday that the government would buy direct stakes in banks and other financial institutions for the first time since the...
By: PR Newswire
CHICAGO - PRNewswire/ -- Looking toward the year 2020, Lori Colman, CEO of Chicago marketing firm Colman Brohan Davis, today urged international food industry executives attending the Healthy Foods Summit in London to step up...
By: Investor's Business Daily
JED GRAHAM
With financial markets buckling as Plan A takes shape, Plan B -- a government injection of equity capital directly into the banking sector -- has moved to the front burner. White House press secretary Dana Perino said Thursday...
By: Newsday (New York)
COMBINED NEWS SERVICES; Staff writer Laura Rivera contri
Fear-driven selling sent the markets plummeting to five-year lows yesterday, bringing U.S. stock losses to $2.3 trillion this week and $8.3 trillion over the past year, according to the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000, which tracks 5,000...
By: IPS (Latin America)
Rahul Kumar
Shell CEO Jeroen Van der Veer told IPS in an interview at the IUCN World Conservation Congress that if governments wanted to fast-track the creation of sustainable energy, they must come up with long-term global standards to...
By: USA TODAY
David J. Lynch
The U.S. and other nations fought on multiple fronts Wednesday to contain a deepening financial crisis before it triggers a global recession.
Underscoring a dramatic shift in global financial influence toward rising powers,...
By: Los Angeles Times
Tiffany Hsu, Times Staff Writer
The roiling economy appears to be ripping into the ranks of upper management, pushing the chief executive turnover rate in a popular survey to an all-time high. This year, 1,132 CEOs have left their posts, according to employment...
By: Investor's Business Daily
JED GRAHAM
The challenge facing policymakers is that even as they race to unclog a financial system that serves as the lifeblood of the economy, the patient seems to be hemorrhaging.Job losses, nose-diving stock prices and a brutal...
By: Los Angeles Times
Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer
The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it would become a lender of last resort to corporate America and signaled a possible interest rate cut, but the stock market nose-dived again as the financial crisis continued to defy the...
By: Business Wire
Syzygy Consulting Group's 2008 Pre-IPO and Private Company Total Compensation Survey reports that private companies have significantly decreased CEO pay and total employee ownership. "Not surprisingly, the 2008 data...
By: USA TODAY
Ross K. Baker
If the passage of the federal $700 billion rescue succeeds in pulling us back from the financial abyss, we have some people we need to thank. Not the president, who belatedly worked the phones and emerged only intermittently...
By: USA TODAY
Sue Kirchhoff and Barbara Hagenbaugh
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department struggled to ease severe credit pressures Monday that threatened to bring down the global economy, including doubling to $900 billion the amount of cash available to...
By: Los Angeles Times
Jim Puzzanghera, Times Staff Writer
Just days before Lehman Bros. Holding Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection last month, the company sought $23.2 million in "special payments" for three outgoing executives, according to internal documents released by a...
By: Los Angeles Times
Jim Puzzanghera, Times Staff Writer
The Bush administration took its first steps Monday to implement the $700-billion bailout for the financial system, tapping a Treasury Department official to lead efforts to buy securities tied to troubled loans and soliciting...
By: Market Wire
XBRL International and XBRL US will host a conference in Washington, DC, October 15-16, 2008 that will outline how structured data can improve the decision-making process for investors, governments and others. The 18th XBRL...
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