Word: bonding
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...foreigners: Italy's banking sector is highly fragmented and not very competitive, according to Credit Suisse First Boston, meaning that greater efficiencies - and profits - can be wrung out of them. Lucky Break? Frankfurt prosecutors called off a probe into six Citigroup traders accused of manipulating the European government bond market last August, although a change to Germany's law made since could now make such trades illegal. Financial watchdogs elsewhere in Europe are still investigating...
...JERSEY Acting Governor Richard Codey wants a bond measure on November's ballot to raise $230 million for research. Two-thirds of Garden Staters support the idea, according to a poll released last week...
Ebbers' conviction reflects a new calculus for corner-office occupants: that corporate crime may finally equate to lengthy prison terms. Many of the most notorious white collar villains of a generation ago received light sentences compared with what Ebbers faces. Junk-bond king Michael Milken, for instance, served only 22 months for securities fraud. Now CEOs must recognize the risks of an "I didn't know" defense and face the prospect of monumental consequences to go along with their monumental pay packages. That Ebbers lost hundreds of millions himself in the WorldCom collapse--buying more stock even as the company...
...company stock saw their investments wiped out. Bryant's stake dwindled from $39,000 to $4,000. (It's scant solace that WorldCom emerged from bankruptcy under the less tainted name of MCI, now a takeover target likely to fetch upwards of $8 billion from Qwest or Verizon.) WorldCom bond investors had a second reason to cheer when J.P. Morgan Chase agreed last week to pay $2 billion to settle investor claims, joining Citigroup and other Wall Street firms that had underwritten a WorldCom bond issue only about a year before the telecom went bust. With some $6 billion...
...From the start, I’ve been confident that Beekeeper understands my album,” Marx says. “All three of us have jobs writing about music for magazines or websites, so we share that common bond as well. When I got the offer from Beekeeper, I went online and read a lot of Nick and Matt’s record reviews and realized that we have very similar taste...