TOP 100 FINANCIAL SITES
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| Yahoo, Microsoft Ready For Proxy Fight Microsoft Corp. is getting ready to take its bid for Yahoo Inc. right to the Web portal's shareholders, while Yahoo Inc. has adopted new severance packages that protect employees in the event of a Microsoft takeover. feeds.cbsnews.com |
Goldman Sachs CEO gets $100 mln in pay, stock NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Friday its Chairman and Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein was awarded about $53.97 million of compensation in its 2007 fiscal year, when the Wall Street bank largely skirted subprime mortgage losses that plagued many rivals. feeds.reuters.com |
Merrill may take $4.5 bln write-down, Bernstein estimates SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Merrill Lynch & Co. may record $4.5 billion in write-downs from exposure to mortgage-related securities and troubled bond insurers during the first quarter, a Bernstein Research analyst estimated Thursday. feeds.marketwatch.com |
Bear Stearns Posts 79% Profit Drop Bear Stearns posted a 79% drop in net and said it may face SEC charges for anticompetitive practices in its bidding for municipal securities. online.wsj.com |
Men from Mars buy world's biggest chewing gum maker Mars Inc agreed to purchase Wm Wrigley Jr Co for 23 billion U.S. dollars, with financing from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, to combine the world's biggest maker of chewing gum with the producer of M&Ms chocolate. Mars wil ... english.people.com.cn |