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MARKET Open

Nov 11, 2008 8:57 AM CST

Bears Reign in Early Trading

Dow down triple digits again

(Newser) - Stocks were trudging downward again this morning, as investors turned a pessimistic eye towards upcoming earnings reports. The Dow was off 217 points a half-hour into the session, while the Nasdaq and S&P traced 33- and 20-point declines of their own. Those declines mirrored moves overseas, with European benchmarks...

Wall Street's Bonus Season 'Not Going
to Be Pretty'

Nov 6, 2008 7:49 AM CST

Wall Street's Bonus Season 'Not Going to Be Pretty'

Experts are predicting cuts of 20%-50%

(Newser) - For the second consecutive year, Wall Streeters are likely to see their wallets lightened by bonuses projected to be down 20% to 50% from a year ago, reports the Wall Street Journal. And while everyone is likely to be a little blue, the biggest loss of green may be among...

Banks Owe Execs Billions—
in Previous Years' Pay

Oct 31, 2008 8:00 AM CDT

Banks Owe Execs Billions— in Previous Years' Pay

Under bailout rules, banks can honor past obligations to execs with federal cash

(Newser) - The financial titans receiving huge portions of federal bailout cash are sitting on some massive IOUs, but they aren’t to taxpayers or shareholders—the banks owe billions to their own executives for previous years' pay and pensions. Under the rules of the bailout, they can be paid with taxpayer...

Goldman Sachs to Cut Staff 10%

Oct 23, 2008 7:39 AM CDT

Goldman Sachs to Cut Staff 10%

Restructuring bank will trim 3,000 employees

(Newser) - Goldman Sachs will cut almost 3,300 jobs, or about 10% of the bank's total staff, an insider told Reuters today. Although Goldman has weathered the credit crisis better than its competitors, its transition from an investment bank to a traditional enterprise means that it will have to obey stricter...

Wall St. Bonuses Are Down, but Hardly Out

Oct 22, 2008 9:29 AM CDT

Wall St. Bonuses Are Down, but Hardly Out

Even giants taking a federal handout set aside millions for execs

(Newser) - Wall Street bonuses could top $23 billion this year despite the woes of the global economy, Forbes reports. Indeed, that figure is down some 30% from last year’s $33.2 billion, but a smaller pool of employees, competition among companies to keep top performers, and the effects of mergers...

Times Tough for I-Bankers, in 'Marie Antoinette' Kind of Way

GLOSSIES

Oct 20, 2008 3:26 PM CDT

Times Tough for I-Bankers, in 'Marie Antoinette' Kind of Way

Tough times prompt some soul searching, but titans confident they'll regain Wall St. primacy

(Newser) - With Wall Street in free fall, many of its elite I-bankers are seeing the status quo turned upside-down, Vanessa Grigoriadis writes in New York. Once at the top of the heap, working for companies that praised them as smartest people out there, some are fighting to survive on the Street,...

In Crisis, Buffett Is
Modern JP Morgan

Oct 6, 2008 1:27 PM CDT

In Crisis, Buffett Is Modern JP Morgan

'Oracle of Omaha' offers financial, psychological help to stressed America

(Newser) - Amid the financial panic of 1907, financier JP Morgan stepped in to play the role of central bank, crafting an economic rescue plan and using his personality to offer worried Americans a psychological boost. Today, Warren Buffett’s financial aid to Wall Street and calming influence on Main Street are...

Paulson Picks Goldman Alum to Oversee Bailout Fund

Oct 6, 2008 9:59 AM CDT

Paulson Picks Goldman Alum to Oversee Bailout Fund

35-year-old to keep seat warm until Jan.

(Newser) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will name former Goldman Sachs banker Neel Kashkari to oversee the $700 billion bailout fund approved last week, reports the Wall Street Journal. The appointment is an interim one for Kashkari, 35, currently an assistant Treasury secretary; a new administration would almost certainly appoint its own...

Crisis Leaves Goldman Nearly Unruffled

OPINION

Oct 2, 2008 4:08 PM CDT

Crisis Leaves Goldman Nearly Unruffled

Being ahead of curve, having friends in high places pays dividends

(Newser) - With the US financial inferno taking down most of the big investment banks, Goldman Sachs is set to emerge “essentially the same institution,” David Weidner writes in MarketWatch, stronger than it was before and with the same powerful array of friends in high places who, intentionally or otherwise,...

Buffett Grabs
$3B Chunk of GE

Oct 2, 2008 3:59 AM CDT

Buffett Grabs $3B Chunk of GE

Shrewd market player aiming for windfall after chaos clears

(Newser) - Mega-pockets investor Warren Buffett is sinking $3 billion into General Electric, whose share prices have slumped a third amid the financial chaos on Wall Street, Reuters reports. Buffet, 78, negotiated a 10% dividend, which could generate $300 million income a year. The move comes a week after he invested $5...

Execs Were Paid $3B to Lay Credit Crisis Foundation

ANALYSIS

Sep 26, 2008 5:45 PM CDT

Execs Were Paid $3B to Lay Credit Crisis Foundation

Wall Street chieftains were well rewarded for risks they took in 2003-07

(Newser) - More than $3 billion was paid to the chief executives of the five biggest financial firms on Wall Street in the run-up to the credit crisis, Bloomberg reports. While supervising bad mortgage-related credit bets that eventually brought the financial system to its knees, Merrill Lynch’s Stanley O’Neal took...

Goldman Sachs
Is DC's Top
Sugar Daddy

ANALYSIS

Sep 26, 2008 2:20 PM CDT

Goldman Sachs Is DC's Top Sugar Daddy

$43M since '89 on lobbying, donations greases bailout wheels

(Newser) - Goldman Sachs has given Washington plenty of reasons to help it out—43 million reasons, to be precise. Goldman bankers have been the nation’s biggest campaign contributors this year, and have poured more than $43 million into lobbying and campaign war chests since 1989, ABC News reports. “They...

For Buffett, Goldman Deal Was a Snap

Sep 25, 2008 10:29 AM CDT

For Buffett, Goldman Deal Was a Snap

But if Congress doesn't pass Treasury's bailout, he'll 'get killed'

(Newser) - Billionaire Warren Buffett has been getting a lot of calls lately from struggling Wall Street firms looking for a savior, from Bear Stearns to Lehman Brothers to AIG. He’s turned them all down, the Wall Street Journal reports, but when Goldman Sachs called Tuesday, the Oracle of Omaha ponied...

Stocks Flat Amid Bailout Wait

MARKETS

Sep 24, 2008 3:25 PM CDT

Stocks Flat Amid Bailout Wait

Housing sales decline; Buffet boosts Goldman

(Newser) - Stocks swung between gains and losses today as the proposed financial bailout continued to dominate conversation but remained unsettled. The technology-rich Nasdaq was more insulated from the swings, and closed up 2.35 at 2,155.68. The Dow lost 29.00 to close at 10,825.17, while the...

Goldman Raises $10B After Buffett's Buy-in

Sep 24, 2008 11:01 AM CDT

Goldman Raises $10B After Buffett's Buy-in

New stock offering nets twice as much as bank expected

(Newser) - Where Warren Buffett goes, investors follow. Goldman’s new stock offering pulled in $5 billion this morning, twice the $2.5 billion the firm expected, as investors followed Buffett’s lead, Bloomberg reports. That extra money, combined with Buffett’s $5 billion investment, “should quickly end credit-market debate about...

Buffett's Goldman Buy
Stabilizes Stocks

MARKETS

Sep 24, 2008 9:16 AM CDT

Buffett's Goldman Buy Stabilizes Stocks

Sage of Omaha backs Paulson

(Newser) - Stocks rose slightly at the open, reports the Wall Street Journal, buoyed by Warren Buffett’s $5 billion vote of confidence in Goldman Sachs. The Dow Jones rose 21 points, while the S&P rose 0.3%, and the Nasdaq 0.9%. Capitol Hill will again command Wall Street's attention...

Buffett Invests $5B in Goldman

Sep 23, 2008 5:31 PM CDT

Buffett Invests $5B in Goldman

(Newser) - Warren Buffett is betting $5 billion on the future of Goldman Sachs, the Financial Times reports. The move by one of the world's savviest investors is one of the biggest signs of confidence in the financial system since the current turmoil began, the Wall Street Journal notes. Goldman, which this...

New Wall Street: Less Risk, Less Innovation, Lower Pay

OPINION

Sep 23, 2008 1:49 PM CDT

New Wall Street: Less Risk, Less Innovation, Lower Pay

Era of investment banks ends

(Newser) - When Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley ditched the investment banking model, it didn’t just mark the end of an era, it marked the end of Wall Street as we know it, the Wall Street Journal declares in an editorial today. And with investment banks gone, the US financial system...

Hedge Funds Poised to Profit as Banks Shun Risk

Sep 23, 2008 1:05 PM CDT

Hedge Funds Poised to Profit as Banks Shun Risk

Private equity eyes trading territory ceded by changes at Goldman, Morgan Stanley

(Newser) - With the last two large US investment banks going commercial in an effort to stay afloat, private-equity and hedge funds are stepping into the void, the Wall Street Journal reports. Taking on roles previously filled by the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, hedge funds like Citadel and private-equity...

As US Firms Stumble, Japanese Banks Step Up

Sep 23, 2008 11:27 AM CDT

As US Firms Stumble, Japanese Banks Step Up

Failing only a few years ago, Japanese institutions rescuing US system

(Newser) - Japan's big banks, themselves near collapse a few years ago, are reemerging as global powerhouses, Reuters reports, just in time to snap up stakes in foundering US banks.They've largely escaped Wall Street's credit meltdown by shying away from riskier investments since their own "near death," when they...