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Recent Featured ArticlesFeatured ArticlesOctober 30, 2008 9,000 CEOS urged to sign up to UN Global Compact  Source: Business Green.com Chief executives at 9,000 of the world's largest companies will this week receive letters from a coalition of institutional investors urging them to sign up to the UN Global Compact commitment to adhere to corporate governance,... October 29, 2008 Cuomo Seeks Information About Bonuses From Banks Source: The Wall Street Journal New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday asked nine banks that are receiving federal funds as part of the government's financial rescue plan to provide his office with information about expected bonuses and... October 29, 2008 Executive Pay Comes Under Fire from Activist Shareholders for Contributing to Financial Crisis Source: Social Funds.com Questions abound in the wake of the current meltdown of the financial industries. How could presumably knowledgeable corporate executives ignore the dangers inherent in mortgage-backed securities consisting of loans that were... October 29, 2008 Waxman Seeks Bank Data On Use of Bailout Funds Source: The Washington Post Congressional investigators yesterday demanded that the nation's nine largest banks prove they are not using an emergency infusion of $125 billion in taxpayer funds to lavish their executives with wealthy bonuses. October 29, 2008 Regulators Failed in Assessing BPA Risk, Panel Says Source: Bloomberg.com Health regulators failed to properly assess the potential safety risks posed by the chemical bisphenol A, according to a report by a panel of U.S. independent scientific advisers. The staff of the U.S. Food and Drug... October 28, 2008 KPMG Analysis Shows Number of U.S. Companies Reporting Sustainability Data Has Doubled Since 2005 Source: KPMG Ethics Overtakes Economics as Primary Reason for Disclosure of Environmental, Social and Governance Issues -- Twice as many top U.S. companies publicly released sustainability data on their environmental, social and governance... October 28, 2008 Remember Who We Are Source: Institute for America's Future We are the children and grandchildren of Americans who confronted the Great Depression, and beat it. We are the children and grandchildren of Americans who built a new democracy and a new prosperity from the ground up. October 28, 2008 Accountants in the hotseat Source: CNNMoney Are well-intentioned but misguided accounting rules intensifying the financial crisis? Those who think so will get a chance to make their case Wednesday, when a Securities and Exchange Commission roundtable explores the role of... October 27, 2008 Treasury working on aid for GM, Chrysler merger Source: Reuters The U.S. Treasury Department is considering how to best provide financial assistance to facilitate a possible merger between General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC, a source familiar with the government's thinking told Reuters on... October 27, 2008 New study reveals consumers’ 2020 food vision Source: AFN Today’s consumers want to have a greater say about food ingredients, safety and quality, and by the year 2020, consumers around the globe expect the way they choose and shop for food to be different, according to a recent study... October 27, 2008 Dollar Rally Reasserts Haven Status as Deutsche Bank Says Buy Source: Bloomberg.com The dollar is reasserting its status as the world's reserve currency as investors seek a haven from plunging emerging-market stocks and bonds. The ICE futures exchange's U.S. Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against six... October 27, 2008 Bernanke Battles `Big-Time' Economic Erosion With New Rate Cuts Source: Bloomberg.com Less than three weeks after the Federal Reserve's emergency interest-rate reduction was, in the words of its vice chairman, ``overwhelmed'' by the collapse of financial markets, Ben S. Bernanke is about to try again.
October 25, 2008 Waxman Backs More Regulation of Hedge Funds, Rating Companies Source: Bloomberg.com Henry Waxman, chairman of a House committee investigating the causes of the global credit crisis, called for more regulation of hedge funds and rating companies. ``We do have to have much more government oversight and involvement... October 25, 2008 Can OPEC Force Oil Prices Up? Source: The New York Times OPEC announced today that its member countries — a group of 13 oil-producing nations — will cut oil production in an attempt to raise prices. Will it work? In traditional economic theory, such production-fixing is hard to enforce... October 24, 2008 Investors Call on SEC to Require Better Disclosure on Climate Change and Other Risks Source: CSR Wire Fourteen of the nation's largest institutional investors called on the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday to require improved corporate climate risk disclosure and-for the first time-address a broader range of... October 24, 2008 Treasury Considers Backing Mortgages Source: The Washington Post Treasury Considers Backing Mortgages October 24, 2008 Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation Source: New York Times On Thursday, almost three years after stepping down as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a humbled Mr. Greenspan admitted that he had put too much faith in the self-correcting power of free markets and had failed to anticipate the... October 23, 2008 Credit Rating Agency Heads Grilled by Lawmakers Source: NY Times Conflicts of interest were largely responsible for the disastrous performance of credit rating agencies in assessing the risks of mortgage-backed securities, two former high-ranking officials at Moody’s Investors Service and... October 23, 2008 Big Plans for Geothermal Energy Source: Los Angeles Times Vast stretches of federal land in the West would be open to geothermal energy development under a plan released by U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Wednesday. The plan identifies 190 million acres — nearly twice the... October 23, 2008 EU Presses for Financial Overhaul, Cites Imbalances Source: bloomberg.com The European Union stepped up calls for an overhaul of the global financial system, saying the world economy faces ``major imbalances'' that require a coordinated response with the U.S. and Asia starting at a summit next month.... October 22, 2008 UN Calls on China to Reform Food Safety System Source: VOA NEWS The United Nations is calling on China to create a unified system of ensuring the safety of its food products, in the wake of a tainted-milk scandal that has taken on global implications. The U.N.'s World Health Organization... October 22, 2008 CSR in turbulent times: Why CSR is now more important than ever Source: CSR -ASIA The credit crisis and financial turmoil that we have seen recently is likely to be only the beginning of a global recession that may stay around for quite some time. Such a downturn in economic activity will inevitably hit... October 22, 2008 Wal-Mart acts over Chinese goods Source: BBC News Wal-Mart has told its Chinese suppliers they will have to adhere to new quality standards and have better knowledge of the practices of their sub-contractors October 22, 2008 Federal Reserve announces the creation of the Money Market Investor Funding Facility (MMIFF) Source: Federal Reserve Board The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the creation of the Money Market Investor Funding Facility (MMIFF), which will support a private-sector initiative designed to provide liquidity to U.S. money market investors. Under... October 21, 2008 Fed to Provide Up to $540 Billion to Aid Money Funds Source: Bloomberg The Federal Reserve will provide up to $540 billion in loans to help relieve pressure on money- market mutual funds beset by redemptions. ``Short-term debt markets have been under considerable strain in recent weeks'' as it got... |
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