Categorie > Business News
Goldman Profits in Stressed Economy
Categorie : Business NewsGoldman Sachs yesterday reported that it earned $2.09 billion last quarter despite the financial crisis buffeting other Wall Street firms, but the figure was down from the corresponding period a year earlier, showing that even the world's largest investment bank is not immune to the upheaval in... ...
read more 
Sun Jun 2008
Why We're Gloomier Than The Economy
Categorie : Business NewsAsk Americans how the economy is doing, and their answer is stark: It is not just bad, it is run-for-the-hills terrible. Consumer confidence is at its lowest level in almost 30 years. Only 12 percent of Americans think the economy is in good shape. On the Internet, comparisons to the Great... ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
FDA Warns About Fraudulent Cancer Treatments
Categorie : Business NewsTumorex, Immune Ace, Ellagic Insurance Formula, PC Hope, Pacific Ocean Shark Cartilage, Breast Cancer Tea Formula. They are all products sold to desperate cancer patients or people worried they might become one. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
Senators Deny Knowing Of Home Loan Favoritism
Categorie : Business NewsSenate banking committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd said yesterday that he knew he was part of a "VIP" mortgage program offered by Countrywide Financial, but he said he was not aware that the privilege included waiving fees that regular customers must pay to obtain lower interest rates. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
Audit Faults KBR's Repairs of Hurricane Damage
Categorie : Business NewsEfforts by defense contractor KBR to repair hurricane-damaged Navy facilities were deemed shoddy and substandard, and one technical adviser alleged that the federal government "certainly paid twice" for many KBR projects because of "design and workmanship deficiencies," the Pentagon's inspector... ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
MySpace De-Clutters, Clearing Room for Big Ads
Categorie : Business NewsMySpace is getting a renovation this week as it seeks to build advertising revenue and provide a simplified experience to consumers. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
Brought to You by . . . Anyone?
Categorie : Business NewsOne of the nation's leading sponsors of online media, Rob Wrubel lays out as much as $20 million a month for Internet ads. Over time, his firm's ad buys have supported a wide spectrum of Web content, from video clips of rock bands to coverage of the Iraq war, and an array of online names: Facebook,. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
Intelligence Agency Joins U-Md. Research Center
Categorie : Business NewsThe University of Maryland's newest tenant is not in the business of advertising its existence or its work. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
Fear Not, Fireworks Fans: The Shows Will Go On
Categorie : Business NewsThings were looking grim for the traditional bang, snap and crackle of Fourth of July fireworks this year. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
Corporate Espionage Detailed in Documents
Categorie : Business NewsThey scavenged through trash and tailed people for hours. They used undercover operatives to infiltrate private meetings. The targets were not agents of foreign powers but advocacy groups that had been critical of corporations. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
Bills by Prince George's Lawmaker Arouse Tempers in China
Categorie : Business NewsDel. James W. Hubbard seems to have started a trade dispute with China -- and he's loving every minute of it. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
Housing rescue is final chance for bargaining
Categorie : Business NewsWASHINGTON -- President Bush and Congress have settled their differences on terrorist surveillance and Iraq war money. Now attention turns to a potential housing rescue, probably the last major initiative with any chance of passing before lawmakers scatter to campaign for re-election. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
Into the Deep End of the Pool
Categorie : Business NewsAndrian Gherbovet, a 20-year-old native of the Republic of Moldova, has found many things difficult since he arrived in May to spend the summer as a lifeguard at an Alexandria condominium complex. Getting a ticket to the consumer economy wasn't one of them. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
Friendship House Could Lose Home
Categorie : Business NewsThis isn't your run-of-the-mill foreclosure sale. The 1797 Capitol Hill house known as the Maples, in which George Washington purportedly slept and where Francis Scott Key later lived, is scheduled to be auctioned to the highest bidder Thursday. ...
read more Sun Jun 2008
