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Its fiscal year coming to an end, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is about to post record annual profits less than a year after the peak of the credit crisis. It is as if almost nothing had happened. The...
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There are two ways to look at management’s sales of millions of shares in Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI). One is that the executives saved the company from an almost certain bankruptcy and deserve a pay...
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Andrew Hall, the head of Citigroup’s (NYSE:C) Philbro commodities trading unit, has been a thorn in the side of the bank since it was disclosed that he made as much as $100 million. Congress, the...
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SEC regulations for public companies say that compensation committees for the boards at public companies recommend pay for senior managers and those recommendations are then given to the entire board...
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Some times it seems like Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has a single-sided coin that always comes up heads. Documents recently released show that if CIT (CIT) fails, Goldman get $1 billion of money that it...
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When Ken Lewis finally leaves Bank of America (BAC) he will get a $125 million goodbye from the financial firm, unless the federal government’s pay czar decides to challenge the package. Most of...
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John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch, says that Bank of America (BAC) misled investors about the timing and the amount of compensation given to Merrill’s employees. Thain put his accusation in...
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Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit admitted what most people already believe. Paying an individual banker $100 million in the current climate is not responsible or right. According to Reuters, when...
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We previously noted how First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) had scored on its new CEO. Robert J. Gillette is coming out of Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) to take over for founder Michael...
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There is an interesting take out there on Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and on HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE: HBC) over how these firms should pay a high bonus to staff based upon a new economic...
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The launch of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner has been delayed so often that it would be comical except that the aerospace firm’s shareholders and customers are not laughing. Boeing trades at $50, down...
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Not a great deal has gone right so far with the government’s $787 billion stimulus package. There is no evidence that it has reached it primary goal of saving or creating as many as 3.5 million...
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AIG’s (AIG) new CEO Robert Benmosche is the wrong man for the job at the wrong time. He has been fighting for a $7 million base pay package to run a company that has taken $180 million in...
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Steve Jobs worked at Apple (AAPL) for $1 a year in 2000, just before the launch of the iPod which completely changed the company’s fortunes and made him astonishingly wealthy. Lee Iaccoca worked...
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AIG has already taken in $180 billion of taxpayer money and there is absolutely no reason to believe that most of it will be returned. The insurance company is still losing money and its efforts to...
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