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Search results for "stocks and bonds" ...
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King of the Club
"The book chronicles the rise and fall of one of Wall Street's most powerful leaders, Richard Grasso, the former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange."
Tags: stock exchange; Wall Street; leader; stocks and bonds; American Dream; chairman; investments; economy
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Back to the Fray: Displaced by Mergers, Some Bankers Launch Their Own Start-Ups
The Wall Street Journal tells the story of Steve Aaron, a former bank executive entering the banking business himself. "As giant bank gobbles up giant bank, they are leaving behind crumbs. All over the country but especially in the South, experienced but displaced bankers such as Mr. Aaron are scrambling to reassemble the pieces -- capital, managers, and even buildings and equipment -- back into new, tiny banks."
Tags: stocks and bonds; business; equity; shareholders
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Seven, Eleven or Trouble
New Times reports that "Maricopa County is playing risky games with insurance funds to make its financial problems seem smaller than they are.... Critics say the county is depleting its insurance reserves by more than a third, just when strength in the face of liability claims is needed."
Tags: underwriting; finances; budgets; risk management; stocks and bonds; credits
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Kmart: Behind the blue light
WXYZ-TV reports on Kmart's secret loans to some of its top executives, and various forms of misuse of corporate assets. The segment shows some of the company executives using the corporate jets for vacations or flying to the bankruptcy court.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Wall Street; investors; stocks and bonds; finance
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Edison Schools: An Education in Financial Deception
A Bloomberg News investigation shows how Edison Schools Inc. -- "the largest private manager of public schools in the U.S. -- artificially inflated its annual revenue by 41 percent in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission." Other findings are that Edison booked revenue from the Sherman, Texas, school district, and that budget problems prevented the company from providing textbooks for schools in Pennsylvania.
Tags: finances; overspending; SEC; accounting standards; privatization of education; stocks and bonds; business
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Corporate Collapse
The Times reports on corporate scandals surrounding energy company Enron, audit firm Arthur Andersen and telecom giant WorldCom. According to the contest entry summary: "In each case, months after publication and following in-depth investigation by authorities, the information in these stories would become the accepted version of the facts. In essence, these stories took the most important -- and most confusing -- events of the past year and quickly ascertained the truth of what had been happening inside the thick walls of a series of corporations."
Tags: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); stocks and bonds; Wall Street conflicts of interest; bankruptcy; special purpose entities; corruption; corporations; accounting; finances
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Year of Truth: after Long Overhaul, Banc One Now Faces Pressure to Perform
The Journal reports on change in direction for Bank One Corp., the nation's seventh-largest bank. The story tells how the company's president John B. McCoy has dropped the old system of autonomous banks, which his father has relied on, and has turned to centralization in order to boost the corporation's profit.
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Off with their perks
Forbes reports that "more and more companies are tightening up on directors' pay and perks -- part of a trend to make people who run companies think like owners, not caretakers."
Tags: CEOs; executives; directors' pensions; investors; stocks and bonds; corporate advisers; Henry Kissinger
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Corporate governance: The best and worst boards
Business Week surveys Wall Street's biggest investors and most prominence government experts to determine the best and worst boards of directors nationwide. The survey finds consistency with results from previous years: GE, IBM, Home Depot, Intel, Cisco Systems, Compaq an Campbell rank among the top ones; Walt Disney, Archer Daniels Midland. Advanced Micro Devices, Rite Aid and Cendant are at the bottom. Accounting scandals are often a major cause for underperformance.
Tags: CEOs; stocks and bonds; insiders; shareholders; equity
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Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald; Deconstructing Lutnick
ABC reports on the grief and anguish of Howard Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, a bond trading company that lost more employees than any other firm in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Lutnick's brother and best friend died in the collapse of the north tower. The interview with the CEO is "an emotional, eyewitness account ... [that] ... personalized the tragedy for millions of Americans." The first segment examines Lutnick's determination to rebuild his firm and to help the families of the 700 deceased employees. The second story takes "a critical look" at whether the CEO has been keeping his promises.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; stocks and bonds; Wall Street; September 11; finance; deaths; benefits; paychecks