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Opening Bell: Moodier and Moodier
July 2, 2008 08:25 AMMoody’s got rid of an executive after finding “inappropriate” and “deeply disappointing” conduct in his staff’s ratings of financial derivatives. It’s yet another black eye for the credit-ratings industry. The Financial Times, which broke the story in May that... Continue reading
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Blackstone vs. the Bean Counters
July 1, 2008 11:55 AMAndrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times scores an interview with Blackstone Group chief Stephen Schwarzman, who’s running around town saying an accounting rule is to blame for much of the severity of the credit crisis. Sorkin thinks... Continue reading
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A Bear Raid?
July 1, 2008 10:02 AMWas Bear Stearns murdered? Vanity Fair asks that provocative question in a riveting but overdone piece on the demise of the investment bank. VF’s Bryan Burrough (author of “Barbarians at the Gate”) never quite gets at why it thinks... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: Swiss Mess
July 1, 2008 08:29 AMThe U.S. is trying to upend the secrecy of the Swiss banks. The Justice Department asked a federal court to force UBS to reveal its American clients who used it to evade their taxes, The Wall Street Journal... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Water Boggle
June 30, 2008 02:12 PMThe Washington Post goes above the fold on page one with about as good a slap-down of the bottled-water industry as you’ll ever read. We realize Bottled Water Is Bad has fast become conventional wisdom,... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Housing Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
June 30, 2008 12:22 PMBusinessWeek takes a look in its good cover story at why the housing crisis is just going to get worse: The interventionist housing bill in Congress would only help out about half a million borrowers, conflicts between lenders... Continue reading
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The Audit
Unloading Bad Securities
June 30, 2008 10:22 AMGretchen Morgenson in the Sunday Times shed some more light on the UBS auction-ratings securities soon-to-be-scandal (That would make at least two at the Swiss bank, which is also in trouble for helping billionaires evade their taxes... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: A Ground Zero Black Hole
June 30, 2008 08:40 AMEditor’s note: Welcome to the new, right-sized Opening Bell. Since February, our young-yet-wizened Ryan Chittum has toiled in the wee hours to bring you a morning roundup of the business news. From now on, Ryan will offer a shorter version... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: Bear Country
June 27, 2008 06:47 AMStock markets plunged on Thursday on worries about the health of the financial system and the economy as a whole. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 358 points or 3 percent to 11,453, the lowest level in nearly two... Continue reading
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Opening Bell
June 26, 2008 08:16 AMThe Supreme Court handed a $2 billion victory to Exxon Mobil, saying the punitive-damages award for the Exxon Valdez disaster was too high. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal both put the news on A1... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: Wrong Track
June 25, 2008 08:24 AMConsumer confidence plummeted, raising fears of a deeper recession if the pessimism translates into lower spending. The Wall Street Journal splashes the news across four columns on page one, while The New York Times stuffs it on... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: GM’s Gas-Guzzler Blues
June 24, 2008 06:40 AMGeneral Motors continued its struggles, going back to its same old bag of tricks for another round of zero percent financing in a bid to spur cash- (and credit-) strapped consumers to take on yet more debt. The carmaker... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: At Least It Wasn’t a Bridge Tournament
June 23, 2008 07:49 AMThe Wall Street Journal takes a withering A1 look at the performance of Securities and Exchange Commission chairman during the credit crisis. The paper makes Chairman Christopher Cox out to look like the Jimmy Cayne of the regulatory... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: Perp Walk
June 20, 2008 06:42 AMThe Bear Stearns Two got their perp walk yesterday after a federal grand jury indicted them on criminal fraud charges, the first of the credit crisis on Wall Street, saying they lied to investors and destroyed evidence. The... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: GAO Smacks Down Air Force
June 19, 2008 08:10 AMThe Government Accountability Office handed Boeing a huge win, finding that the Air Force improperly awarded a $35 billion contract to build new midair refueling planes to its competitors Northrop Grumman and Airbus. The Wall Street Journal,... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: What’s Goldman’s Secret?
June 18, 2008 07:49 AMGoldman Sachs continued to navigate the credit crisis better than any of its peers. It reported just an 11 percent drop in profit in the first quarter to $2.1 billion. The Financial Times says the investment bank... Continue reading
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Fed Says Markets Too Optimistic
June 17, 2008 07:46 AMThe Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times both go page one with apparent leaks from the Federal Reserve that the markets’ expectations of future rate increases are too aggressive and that the central bank thinks the financial system... Continue reading
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Crimes at Bear Stearns
June 16, 2008 07:14 AMFederal prosecutors are preparing to indict two Bear Stearns executives who ran hedge funds there that collapsed last summer in one of the earliest signs of the unraveling of the financial industry, The Wall Street Journal scoops on... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: Ax Falls At Lehman
June 13, 2008 08:00 AMHeads rolled at Lehman Brothers as the Wall Street bank took action to restore its tattered credibility after a brutal couple of weeks raised questions about its viability and that of the rest of the financial sector. <a... Continue reading
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Opening Bell: Are Your Chemicals Safe?
June 12, 2008 07:29 AMThe Washington Post on A1 writes that a tough new European law regulating the chemical industry is affecting the way U.S. products will be made—and its sounds like that’s a good thing. The new regulations will force companies... Continue reading
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