Reuters BreakingViews: Protecting Banks in the Boardroom
| Directors at banks can help control risk by routinely posing the question: “What could make this institution fail?” 02/09/2010 07:20 (nytimes business) Continue to read news >> |
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Findings On Lehman Take Even Experts By ... The report on the demise of Lehman Brothers is full of exhaustive detail in its nine volumes, acting as a road map for further inquiry into Lehman executives. |
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Take Your Royalty Checks, Soundexchange ... Money is piling up from digital music streams, and the nonprofit has to track down artists who don't know. Then it has to convince them it's not a scam. When John |
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Facebook Helps Social Start-ups Gain Use... Facebook Connect can help nascent Web services recruit a healthy crowd of users in a hurry, and help the users find their friends on those sites. |
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Food Sector Faces Sweeping Antitrust Inv... Officials are looking into the gaps between what farmers earn and what shoppers pay at the grocery store. Justice Department and USDA pledge an examination of alleged mon |
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Grapevine Moth Forces Quarantine For Par... A 162-square-mile area of Napa Valley has been quarantined in an effort to stop the spread of the European grapevine moth, which also threatens other fruit. |
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Shortcuts: When A Cap Full Of Soap Is No... Go easy on the detergent in dishwashers and washing machines, and never clean your oven the day before Thanksgiving. |
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L.a. Becomes A Test Case In Battle To Un... Its agreement with two banks, which used to pay off for the city, is now costing it money. But whatever happened to honoring the sanctity of a contract? "I can pay |
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Patient Money: Finding The Right Care Fo... Some ailing parents might be able to live at home or with their children, but care for a parent with dementia can be extremely expensive. |
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Violations Are Cited In Generics Ranbaxy Laboratories, a maker of generic drugs, has run afoul of the Federal Drug Administration for violations at its United States factory in upstate New York. |
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Young Veterans Returning Home To Few Job... The unemployment rate last year for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle combat veterans fa |
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Toyota Aims For A Surge In Sales The troubled automaker hopes to draw buyers this weekend with the help of an advertising blitz and big incentives. Toyota dealers are gearing up for something they |
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Disney To Shut Imagemovers Digital Studi... Robert Zemeckis' Bay Area studio has 450 employees and will close by January. It produces the motion-capture animation technology that was used in 2009's 'A Christmas Car |
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Republicans Name 6 To Debt-reduction Pan... Skepticism is high that Republicans would agree to raise revenues, or that Democrats would slash spending on programs like Medicaid, but economists called for both action |
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