CIT names ex-Merrill CEO Thain as chairman, CEO The Boston Globe | NEW YORK-Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain, who brokered the investment bank's controversial sale to , is taking over as chairman and CEO of as the commercial lender continues to restructure its business following a brief stay in bankruptcy protection last year. | CIT Group Inc., one of the nati...
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Toyota's powerful DC friends The Boston Globe | WASHINGTON-Toyota has friends in high places in Washington, including some of the very people now investigating the Japanese automaker. | The company has sought to sow good will and win allies with lobbying, charitable giving, racing in the American-as-apple pie NASCAR series and, perhaps most imp...
Paralyzed CNN scribe wins $55m from UK medic Hong Kong Standard Former Hong Kong-based CNN correspondent Andrew Brown has won almost HK$55 million in damages after being paralyzed at a British hospital. | //--> Tuesday, February 09, 2010 | Former Hong Kong-based CNN correspondent Andrew Brown has won almost HK$55...
Guard accused of stealing gold bars from HSBC Hong Kong Standard A security guard appeared in court yesterday accused of stealing four gold tael bars worth about HK$1 million belonging to HSBC. | //--> Scarlett Chiang | Tuesday, February 09, 2010 | A security guard appeared in court yesterday accused of stealing f...
Debates aren’t important The Daily Tribune | EDITORIAL | 02/09/2010 | Public debates being held among presidential candidates in this country are useless and even more so if a debate is being sponsored by a newspaper that moreover has, as its panelists, its columnists. The same goes for telev...
Judge puts SEC on defensive at NYC hearing on deal Fresno Bee | The Associated Press thefresnobee_994:/559/story/1813689.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | NEW YORK -- A judge has put a Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer on the defensive over a settlement resolving civ...
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NC examining cig stamps again to deter smuggling The News & Observer | RALEIGH, N.C. -- For years, buying low-tax North Carolina cigarettes and selling them on the black market in a high-tax state up north has been an easy way to make big money for ...
Obama adviser: Stop criticizing anti-terror effort The News & Observer | WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that lawmakers and others are using national security to score political points and defended the h...
Include aging parents in your plans The News & Observer | Staying on track to a comfortable retirement isn't only about taking care of your finances and your health. It might involve taking care of your parents, too. | Baby boomers and ...
Edelman Financial opens 2 new offices Business Journal Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | Get new image | Audio verification | reCAPTCHA™ Texans blitz, ...
UPS: Pilots must agree to more cost savings The News & Observer | ATLANTA -- Shipping giant UPS is again telling its pilots they need to agree to more cost savings or the company will have to furlough at least 300 of them. | UPS made the same ultimatum to its roughly 2,800 pilots last year, but agreed to delay fu...
FairPoint reorg plan would cut debt sharply The News & Observer | PORTLAND, Maine -- The telecommunications company FairPoint Communications Inc.'s debt would be cut by nearly two-thirds under its bankruptcy reorganization plan filed Monday. | The plan outlined in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, wh...
Kevin Cullen: Parents need to crack down on cyber-bullying The Providence Journal | BOSTON | The recent apparent suicide of a South Hadley freshman named Phoebe Prince, after persistent bullying in and out of school, has led some to believe that help rests somewhere under that Golden Dome on Beacon Hill. | It's pretty clear that whatever comes out of the legislature will give schools and the police more tools to address bullying...
After Buying Spree, China Owns Stakes in Top U.S. Firms The New York Times | SHANGHAI - Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China's sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of shares last year in some of the biggest American corporations, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup. | Although most of the stakes were small, China Investment Corp., the government's $...
