
Americans and American businesses earning profits overseas will pay an estimated $210 billion dollars more in taxes over the next decade if Congress approves stricter international tax laws outlined by the Obama Administration Monday. The Administration is proposing severe restrictions on certain international tax deductions, as well as seeking mechanisms to extract more information from [...]
Bank of America (BAC: 10.43, 1.75, 20.16%) on Monday contradicted a report saying it was planning to raise $10 billion in capital. The Financial Times had reported that BofA was found by the government’s stress tests to need at least $10 billion of capital, and that the company was working on plans to raise new [...]
While it may be too soon to call a bottom in the struggling housing market, a industry gauge of home sales showed sales activity is now up from a year ago — and the average price of a home moved higher in March. The National Association of Realtors said Monday that its March pending existing [...]
May 5 2009 | Posted in
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What do the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Halliburton (HAL: 22.33, 1.48, 7.1%) have in common? Both the charity and the oil industrial giant own senior secured positions in the now-bankrupt Chrysler. In a bankruptcy filing made public on Monday, the embattled auto maker listed dozens of mutual funds, city and state pension funds, [...]
May 5 2009 | Posted in
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Chrysler filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday afternoon in New York, a move President Obama said would give the company a “new lease on life.” The president also announced that Chrysler has met his demand to strike a partnership with Italian automaker Fiat and said he thinks the alliance has a “strong chance of success.” You [...]

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday left a key interest rate near zero and said it will continue to use all available tools to improve liquidity in credit markets and increase lending. Because the economy has continued to contract since the Fed’s last meeting in March, the central bank said it will continue to purchase mortgage [...]
Apr 30 2009 | Posted in
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DETROIT–General Motors Corp (GM: 1.83, -0.22, -10.73%) on Monday offered its final plan to reorganize outside bankruptcy by slashing bond debt, cutting over 21,000 more U.S. jobs and emerging as a nationalized automaker under majority control by the U.S. government. GM Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said the automaker would file for bankruptcy protection if an [...]
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* On high alert, but most take wait-and-see approach * Google closes Mexico office * Ernst & Young unsure if New York staffer has swine flu * Xerox investigating possible case in Mexico * DuPont, Nokia, Honda limit travel Companies began restricting employee travel in response to a potential flu pandemic that has claimed at [...]
The Obama Administration said Tuesday it will throw an additional lifeline to struggling homeowners by giving lenders incentives to reduce borrowers’ monthly payments on second mortgages. “With these latest program details, we’re offering even more opportunities for borrowers to make their homes affordable under the administration’s housing plan,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in a [...]
BANGALORE–U.S. regulators have told Bank of America Corp (BAC: 8.331, -0.579, -6.5%) and Citigroup Inc (C: 2.92, -0.17, -5.5%) they may need to raise more capital following stress testing of the two banks, the Wall Street Journal reported. The shortfall amounts to billions of dollars at BofA, the paper said on Tuesday, citing people familiar [...]