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...They charged in and bought the door busters, and when the door busters were out, it was over," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail consulting and investment banking firm. "By 1 o'clock, there was no more Black Friday - it was over...
...Money Tree Ulu Masen received a boost last year when U.S. bank Merrill Lynch pledged to invest $9 million over four years. "That gave the project a lot more certainty," says Dorjee Sun, chairman of Sydney-based firm Carbon Conservation, which is helping Aceh's provincial government devise the scheme. "It showed there was appetite from investment banks to buy these credits." Merrill Lynch calls Ulu Masen "the world's first commercially financed avoided deforestation project." Money has been followed by political muscle: a year later, Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, along with the governors of Wisconsin and Illinois, signed...
...successful in securing an agreement to shut down Chernobyl Unit No. 3 - the final part of the plant to be shut down after several accidents - as chairman of the G-7 Nuclear Safety Group...
Eleven months after B. Ramalinga Raju, the former chairman of Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services, confessed to masterminding a $1.2 billion fraud at Indias fourth largest I.T. outsourcing company, the dirt is still tumbling out. On Nov. 24, the country's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) released findings that show the alleged fraudulent accounting and embezzlement was far larger than originally thought. Raju and nine accomplices skimmed some $2.5 billion from the company, according to CBI investigators, funneling the money into a collection of assets and property that could make even a profligate Bollywood star blush...
...weeks ago, Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd unveiled an ambitious, far-reaching plan to reform regulation of America's financial system and quickly found himself facing a brick wall of opposition erected by Republicans, regulators and financial-industry bigwigs. Now he's trying to work with Republicans to get the thing moving again. (Read "Financial Regulation: Way Easier Than Health Care...