Senate Democrats in Conn. want to tax TARP bonuses (AP)
Some state lawmakers are eyeing bonuses paid to employees of investment banks and insurers that received funds from the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program as a way to raise revenue to help small businesses. us.rd.yahoo.com |
CORRECTING and REPLACING Talbots and BPW Agree to Technical Amendment to Merger Agreement to Provide Greater Assurance to BPW Shareholders regarding Value of Merger Consideration (Business Wire)
HINGHAM, Mass. & NEW YORK----Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. us.rd.yahoo.com |
CEOs More Optimistic than Last Year about Global Economic Recovery, NYSE Euronext "Back to Business" CEO Survey Reveals (Business Wire)
NEW YORK----Chief executives are more optimistic about the state of the global economy than they were last year, according to the latest NYSE Euronext Annual CEO Report. While few CEOs rate global economic conditions as “excellent or good,” the study finds fewer executives saying conditions are “poor” than last year, with more than four in 10 CEOs expecting the global economy to fully recover by the second half of 2011 or sooner. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Warsaw and Vienna vie for listings (at Financial Times)
Fallout from the sovereign debt crisis may still be buffeting the bourses of central and eastern Europe, but their operators are busy positioning themselves to profit from the rebuilding after the storm. us.rd.yahoo.com |
SEC probes BP potential insider trading: sources (Reuters)
U.S. securities regulators are investigating whether people may have illegally profited from trading on nonpublic information at BP Plc in the weeks and months following the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, two sources familiar with the investigation said on Monday. us.rd.yahoo.com |