Business
An environmental ethic is growing on business
March 4, 2007
Securities: Utility firm drops as much as 39% and automaker loses 9% on shaken confidence in their financial health.
Oct. 9, 2002
The dot-com shakeout has MBAs looking at long-established companies for training, instead of their own businesses and start-ups.
Feb. 4, 2001
Investors’ renewed interest in dividends -- fueled by the Bush administration’s proposal to stop taxing those cash payments -- could have dangerous implications.
Jan. 21, 2003
Credit: Investors are starting to show strong interest in bonds as confidence grows and summer vacation ends.
Aug. 28, 2002
Credit card transaction processor First Data Corp. said Monday that it was being acquired by an affiliate of private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for about $27 billion in what would be among the richest private takeovers in the U.S.
April 3, 2007
Wall Street: Solid earnings from PepsiCo and prospect of end to the shipping impasse drive the day’s gains.
Federal regulators charged Friday that unknown investors pocketed more than $5.3 million in illegal profits from insider trading before TXU Corp. announced that it had agreed to be sold for $32 billion.
March 3, 2007
Sources say a deal for the utilities giant is expected to be the largest leveraged buyout ever.
Feb. 24, 2007
TXU Corp. made another attempt to restore its financial footing, slashing its quarterly dividend by 80% and saying it would sell all or part of its European operations.
Oct. 15, 2002