|
|
|
Stocks mixed on bailout clash; tech slides
|
|
NEW YORK (AP) -- Financial markets remained on edge Friday after the Bush administration's proposal for a $700 billion banking bailout ran into opposition from Republican lawmakers. Stocks ended mixed, with big financial companies lifting the Dow Jones industrials more than 120 points, but worries about smaller banks and parts of the technology sector taking much of the market lower.
|
|
The Full Text...
|
|
|
|
|
Bailout progress -- Frank sees accord by Sunday
|
|
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration and Congress anxiously revived negotiations Friday on a $700 billion financial bailout, one day after the largest bank collapse in U.S. history provided a brutal reminder of the risks of failure. Democrats talked optimistically of agreement by the end of the weekend.
|
|
The Full Text...
|
|
|
|
|
List of no-short stocks is expanding
|
|
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock exchanges now are maintaining lists of companies that can't be shorted, and perhaps fittingly, the "no-short" lists keep getting longer and longer -- and they are adding some unexpected names.
|
|
The Full Text...
|
|
|
ADM chief executive paid $14.96 million in 2007
|
|
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Archer Daniels Midland Co. Chief Executive Patricia Woertz received compensation valued at $14.96 million in the fiscal year ended June 30, a period in which the agricultural processor's profits fell 17 percent, according to an analysis of a regulatory filing.
|
|
The Full Text...
|
|
|
|