August 4th, 2010
Bob Rubin and Hank Paulson. Vernon Jordan practically lives in the intersection of finance and politics. Heck, even John Edwards took a sabbatical at private equity/hedge fund firm Fortress Investment Group (FIG) between campaigns. Although Edwards’ explanation — that he wanted to understand more about how Wall Street worked so as to be better […]
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June 28th, 2010
A four-year, $90 million redesign and construction project recently was completed at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in south St. Louis County with the opening of the hospital’s new heart and vascular institute.
This final part of the project groups three radiology suites, three cardiac catheterization labs, two electrophysiological labs and an endovascular lab together […]
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June 20th, 2010
A key index of consumer prices fell in May, but it was up 2% over the past 12 months, the government said Thursday.
The Consumer Price Index, the Labor Department’s key measure of inflation, fell by 0.2% in May on a monthly basis. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com expected a 0.1% drop.
The government report attributed most […]
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June 3rd, 2010
US Airways Group will begin service June 1 connecting Charlotte, N.C., with Ottawa, Ontario.
Ottawa joins the list of five other destinations added from the Tempe-based airline’s Charlotte hub in the past 18 months. Service to Rome began May 13 and flights to Rio de Janeiro started in December.
The daily service to Ottawa will be operated […]
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May 18th, 2010
ESPN won the TV rights to ACC football and basketball in a bidding competition with Fox Sports that was surprisingly close, industry sources say, and as a result made the conference several million more dollars.
The back-and-forth bidding, which reached its final stages last week at the league’s spring meetings in Amelia Island, Fla., drove up […]
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May 16th, 2010
Shares of Morgan Stanley fell Wednesday following reports that U.S. federal prosecutors are looking into whether Morgan Stanley misled investors about complex mortgage derivatives it designed.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal said that investigators are scrutinizing Morgan’s so-called collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs.
Morgan Stanley (MS, Fortune 500) opened at $27.34 […]
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May 5th, 2010
Chrysler Group LLC says cost cuts, manufacturing efficiency and disciplined pricing helped the Italian-run automaker slash its net loss to $197 million in the first quarter.
The red ink was far less than the staggering $3.8 billion it lost from the time it left bankruptcy protection June 10 through the end of last […]
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April 13th, 2010
Fortune editor at large Peter Elkind spent almost two years working on his new book, Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, due out from Portfolio April 20. An exclusive excerpt of the book will appear in the next issue of Fortune and on Fortune.com. Elkind recently interviewed Spitzer again about his […]
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March 30th, 2010
What the heck happened to the FHA’s loans in Florida?
The state dominates the list of troubled metro areas for Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgages. In fact, 16 of the top 25 locales with the highest default rates are in Florida, as of December, with tiny Punta Gorda on the Gulf Coast leading at 22.7%.
The poor […]
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March 13th, 2010
After selling off its second "crown jewel" insurance business in a week, AIG has made a sizeable dent in its plan to repay its debt to taxpayers.
But the troubled insurer is still just halfway home and it’s not clear exactly how AIG will pay off the remainder.
On Monday, the insurer announced that it […]
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