Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chieftain Capital Management, an investment firm with about $3 billion in assets, is breaking up following a rift among its managers, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Sunday.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Early signs suggest the number of suicides in the U.S. crept up during the worst recession in decades, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of states that account for about 40% of the U.S. population.
More on Financial Crisis
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John Gapper's Business Blog:
Rupert Murdoch’s talks with Microsoft about removing his newspapers’ stories from Google, and giving the rights to index them to Microsoft’s Bing, could be a pivotal moment in internet economics.Mr Murdoch appears to be willing to sacrifice a lot of traffic to the websites of papers such as the Wall Street Journal and The T (Read More)
Reuters: Mergers News:
Nov 23 (Reuters) - Health insurer Humana Inc is
looking for acquisitions in complementary areas to adapt to
changing healthcare need, its Chief Executive Mike McCallister
told the Wall Street Journal in an interview.
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WSJ.com: Money:
Wall Street has rallied a long way since the dark days last winter. But there are still plenty of blue chips offering big dividend yields. (Read More)
New York Times:
A government report on the bailout of A.I.G. is must reading for taxpayers looking to know why the $182 billion “rescue” is the most troubling episode of the financial disaster.
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Huffington Post:
Earlier this week, Mary Anastasia O'Grady shamelessly pulled the God card to defend the Honduran coup. Specifically, she handed her Wall Street Journal column over to the coup-supporting Cardinal Rodriguez to curry favor for the June 28 ousting of President Manuel Zelaya from power. Her article ignores the Church's troublin (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - U.S. Economy:
Anxiety reappeared on Wall Street this week, leaving markets largely lower and sending investors into short-term government bonds and the U.S. dollar, which recorded its first weekly gain in a month.
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Washington Post:
Once there was a simpler time, when pretty much everything that happened in the financial world had a straightforward explanation.
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CNN:
Pope Benedict XVI is expected to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday, the first meeting between the religious leaders since a Catholic overture to disaffected Anglicans that some commentators compared to a hostile takeover on Wall Street.
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CNN:
Pope Benedict XVI is expected to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday, the first meeting between the religious leaders since a Catholic overture to disaffected Anglicans that some commentators compared to a hostile takeover on Wall Street.
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washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns:
Tonight, 32 young Americans will win Rhodes Scholarships. Their tenures at Oxford are funded by the legacy of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, a man whose life would not be honored today were it not for his vision that young people of outstanding intellect, leadership and ambition could make the world a better place. (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis has said he would consider postponing his retirement if directors need more time to find a successor or smooth the transition to the next CEO, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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