Sun, May 20, 2012
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN (Reuters) - A record-breaking pay deal will give millions of German workers their biggest rise in wages in two decades, boost ...
Fri, May 18, 2012
By Anna Driver
(Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp
Fri, May 18, 2012
(Reuters) - The Japanese government and private sector bank officials are considering asking the Bank of Japan (BOJ) for help in settling Iranian oil transactions ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless plans to make its data-hungry customers pay a lot more, either in service fees or smartphone ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - British oil explorer Cairn Energy
Mon, May 14, 2012
(Reuters) - Life and mortgage insurer Genworth Financial Inc
Sun, May 13, 2012
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Sun, May 13, 2012
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Thu, May 10, 2012
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Thu, May 10, 2012
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Thu, May 10, 2012
By Emily Flitter
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge said during a court hearing in New York on Thursday he is prepared to order ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
By Patricia Reaney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tables have turned in U.S. divorce courts with more women paying their former husbands alimony and child ...
Tue, May 08, 2012
By Ilaina Jonas
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The controller of the Empire State Building has offered investors the opportunity to sell some of their shares ...
Tue, May 08, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - Insurer Aviva
Mon, May 07, 2012
By Tom Bergin and Sinead Cruise
LONDON (Reuters) - Company directors will remain under pressure from shareholders over executive pay long after the market downturn ...
Sun, May 06, 2012
By Robin Paxton and Mariya Gordeyeva
ALMATY (Reuters) - About 300 Kazakh miners called off an underground strike on Sunday, accepting a promise of higher ...
Fri, May 04, 2012
(Reuters) - Sprint Nextel chief Daniel Hesse said he would take a cut in pay this year, after coming under fire from some shareholders disappointed ...
Fri, May 04, 2012
By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) - Spain's plan to rid banks of toxic real estate assets is reviving the politically heated ...
Thu, May 03, 2012
(Reuters) - The Wall Street Journal said Bank of America Corp could end up paying hundreds of millions of dollars in a settlement following talks ...
Thu, May 03, 2012
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Thu, May 03, 2012
By Katharina Bart
ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS
Tue, May 01, 2012
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc
Fri, April 27, 2012
By Matt Scuffham and Katharina Bart
LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - More than a quarter of shareholders at Credit Suisse
Fri, April 27, 2012
BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. oil firm ConocoPhillips
Fri, April 27, 2012
By Matt Scuffham and Katharina Bart
LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - Almost a third of Credit Suisse
Fri, April 27, 2012
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fast-food chain KFC has been ordered to pay A$8 million ($8.3 million) in damages to the family of an Australian ...
Thu, April 26, 2012
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel demanded on Thursday that European allies foot more of the bill for a multibillion-dollar ...
Thu, April 26, 2012
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health insurers will pay $1.3 billion in rebates to consumers and employers this year under a provision of ...
Tue, April 24, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's controller improperly suspended the pay of lawmakers last year after deciding a budget they approved was not balanced, a ...
Tue, April 24, 2012
By Martyn Herman
LONDON (Reuters) - Wimbledon's early victims will be comforted by a larger slice of the total prize money this year after ...
Fri, April 20, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sanjay Jha, the chief executive to Motorola Mobility, was awarded a total compensation package of about $47 million in 2011, almost ...
Fri, April 20, 2012
By Dena Aubin and Ross Kerber
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Institutional investors are increasingly pressing boards to rein in outsized executive pay, and after Citigroup ...
Fri, April 20, 2012
(Reuters) - Days after being rebuked by shareholders, Citigroup Inc
Thu, April 19, 2012
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Thu, April 19, 2012
(Reuters) - A Boston federal judge on Thursday sentenced Merck & Co to pay a $321 million criminal fine for improperly marketing its Vioxx painkiller a decade ago.
The U.S. drugmaker pleaded guilty in recent months to having illegally promoted Vioxx for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis before it was approved for that use in 2002. The pill, approved in 1999 as a painkiller, was withdrawn from the market in 2004 after it was linked to risk of heart attack and stroke.
Federal prosecutors in Boston said Merck illegally promoted Vioxx for rheumatoid arthritis for three years, continuing to do so after being reprimanded in September 2001 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
In a related settlement reached in November, Merck agreed to pay more than $600 million to the federal government, 43 states and the District of Columbia for a wider range of alleged improprieties. But it did not acknowledge any wrongdoing in the civil settlement.
The Department of Justice on Thursday said the settlement involved allegations that Merck made misleading statements about Vioxx's heart safety to boost sales of the medicine, and that it prematurely promoted the drug for rheumatoid arthritis.
(Reporting By Ransdell Pierson; Editing by Steve Orlosky)
Wed, April 18, 2012
By Dena Aubin and Ross Kerber
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Institutional investors are increasingly pressing boards to rein in outsized executive pay, and after Citigroup ...
Mon, April 16, 2012
There's really no excuse to not subscribe to HBO. Even if only to re-watch all the seasons of The Sopranos over and over ...
Mon, April 16, 2012
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday on whether pharmaceutical companies must pay sales representatives overtime, a dispute that ...
Sun, April 15, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - Some six percent of Britain's wealthiest people used tax reliefs to reduce their tax bills to less than 10 percent, according ...
Sun, April 15, 2012
There's really no excuse to not subscribe to HBO. Even if only to re-watch all the seasons of The Sopranos over and over ...
Sat, April 14, 2012
There's really no excuse to not subscribe to HBO. Even if only to re-watch all the seasons of The Sopranos over and over ...
Fri, April 13, 2012
There's really no excuse to not subscribe to HBO. Even if only to re-watch all the seasons of The Sopranos over and over ...
Fri, April 13, 2012
By Lauren Tara LaCapra
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein's compensation increased 14.5 percent to $16.2 million in ...
Fri, April 13, 2012
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer has agreed to pay at least $110 million to settle the first 500 lawsuits over claims that its Yasmin group of ...
Thu, April 12, 2012
(Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp's chief executive earned 20 percent more in 2011 than the year before, and the company said it saw no ...
Thu, April 12, 2012
By Sarah N. Lynch and Aruna Viswanatha
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs
Wed, April 11, 2012
By Melinda Dickinson
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Politically unpopular rate hikes could cover the debt service on the $3.14 billion of sewer-system debt that ...
Wed, April 11, 2012
By Suzanne Barlyn
(Reuters) - Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp must pay $2 million to a broker who alleged the company fired and then defamed him ...
Wed, April 11, 2012
By Suzanne Barlyn
(Reuters) - Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp must pay $2 million to a broker who alleged the company fired and then defamed him ...
Tue, April 10, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tenet Healthcare Corp has agreed to pay almost $43 million to settle allegations that it overbilled the federal Medicare healthcare program for ...
Fri, April 06, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of General Motors , AIG, and Ally Financial had their 2012 compensation packages frozen for a second year in a ...
Thu, April 05, 2012
(Reuters) - CIT Group Inc
Wed, April 04, 2012
Bel Geddes, who played Ewing family matriarch Miss Ellie, died in 2005, and in the first Dallas broadcast since her passing, her screen son ...
Wed, April 04, 2012
By Philip Shishkin and David Henry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Wednesday that JPMorgan Chase & Co
The action comes as the CFTC and other regulators continue to probe what happened to segregated customer funds in the October 2011 collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd
In the Lehman case, the CFTC said that for about 22 months, ending with Lehman's bankruptcy in September 2008, JPMorgan had improperly extended intra-day credit to Lehman Brothers based in part on customers' segregated funds Lehman had deposited at the bank.
JPMorgan also violated rules by refusing to release customers' segregated funds for nearly two weeks after the bankruptcy, the CFTC said.
In a statement, JPMorgan said it "mistakenly factored the balance in the account into a daily calculation of (Lehman) assets to determine the amount of credit the firm was willing to extend to (Lehman)."
JPMorgan went on to say that "no customer funds were ever used to satisfy any (Lehman) debt to JPMorgan, nor were any funds in these accounts lost."
Lehman spokeswoman Kimberly Macleod declined to comment.
The issue of how JPMorgan handled customer funds of another brokerage also emerged in the ongoing investigation into MF Global. JP Morgan played an important role in MF Global's final hours, as the firm struggled to meet its trading commitments amid a growing customer unease over the brokerage's big bets on European sovereign debt.
When MF Global filed for bankruptcy in October, regulators said its customer accounts were short nearly $1.6 billion. Customer funds are legally required to be held separate from the firm's own cash.
The CFTC is under pressure to add safeguards to customer accounts as thousands of MF Global customers, including many farmers who use futures to hedge risks, try to recover their lost money.
An array of federal regulators are investigating the disappearance, and JPMorgan recently came under scrutiny from congressional investigators over a $175 million transfer that MF Global made to cover an overdraft at JPMorgan just days before the firm's collapse.
That money, congressional investigators said, appeared to come from an MF Global customer-segregated account.
JPMorgan asked MF Global to sign a letter certifying that the transfer was proper, but MF Global never signed it. JPMorgan hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing in this case.
MF Global and its employees have also not been formally accused of wrongdoing.
Some of MF Global's former clients who lost money in the firm's collapse have been angry at JPMorgan over its role in the firm's final days.
Speaking about the fine in the Lehman case, James Koutoulas, who represents many those former MF Global customers, said in an e-mail, "it's yet another data point in JPMorgan's systematic disregard for the law and for the safety of client assets." Koutoulas heads the Commodity Customer Coalition, a group of former MF Global customers who lost money in the collapse of MF Global.
Koutoulas also complained about the size of the fine. "$20 million will not deter JPMorgan from continuing the conduct in the slightest," he said. "U.S. regulators need to drastically increase their fines."
JPMorgan said that it cooperated with the regulators and that the latest settlement doesn't say it "intentionally violated the Commodity Exchange Act or CFTC regulations." JPMorgan has consistently denied acting inappropriately in the MF Global case.
The CFTC's order requires JPMorgan to implement reforms to ensure the proper handling of customer segregated funds in the future and to release customer funds upon notice and instruction from the CFTC.
JPMorgan had 2011 net income of $19 billion and recorded $4.9 billion in litigation expenses.
(Reporting by Philip Shishkin and Karey Wutkowski in Washington and David Henry in New York.; Editing by Maureen Bavdek and ...
Tue, April 03, 2012
Bel Geddes, who played Ewing family matriarch Miss Ellie, died in 2005, and in the first Dallas broadcast since her passing, her screen son ...
Mon, April 02, 2012
By Nanette Byrnes
(Reuters) - The take-home pay of U.S. chief executives grew at least 10 percent in 2011, propelled largely by a stock ...
Mon, April 02, 2012
By Ben Deighton
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A one-click online payment system using Facebook and Twitter that could boost Internet sales for newspapers, music vendors and ...
Sun, April 01, 2012
By Saeed Azhar and Neil Chatterjee
SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Singapore's DBS Group
Sun, April 01, 2012
By Lee Chyen Yee and Jeanny Kao
BOAO, China (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group will keep on increasing worker salaries in China and cutting the ...
Fri, March 30, 2012
By Deepa Seetharaman and Bernie Woodall
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co
Fri, March 30, 2012
By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - Medtronic Inc said it agreed to pay $85 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit accusing it of making misleading statements ...
Fri, March 30, 2012
By Deepa Seetharaman and Bernie Woodall
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co
Wed, March 28, 2012
By Lewis Krauskopf
(Reuters) - A program to pay hospitals bonuses for hitting key performance measures, or dock them if they miss, failed to improve ...
Sun, March 25, 2012
By Richard Mably and Peg Mackey
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is struggling to pay off $1 billion that it owes Iran for crude ...
Sat, March 24, 2012
By Marianna Parraga
GUIRIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela will pay Williams Cos Inc
Thu, March 22, 2012
By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - Twelve directors of Morgan Stanley
Thu, March 22, 2012
(Reuters) - FedEx Corp
Thu, March 22, 2012
By Peter Henderson and Jed Horowitz
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan left for ...
Wed, March 21, 2012
By Steve Keating
(Reuters) - The New Orleans Saints were handed the bill for their pay-for-pain bounty scheme on Wednesday and it was a hefty ...
Wed, March 21, 2012
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece unveiled details of payments to its two main debt restructuring advisers late on Wednesday to knock down a local website report ...
Wed, March 21, 2012
By Simon Evans
(Reuters) - New Orleans Saints' Super Bowl winning head coach Sean Payton has been suspended for a year without pay by the ...
Wed, March 21, 2012
(Reuters) - Broadcom Corp said it would pay about $195 million to buy BroadLight, a maker of chips used in fiber optic networks carrying services ...
Tue, March 20, 2012
By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co
The settlement with investors including the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) Retirement Fund was disclosed in filings late Friday with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
It related to the collapse of Sigma Finance Corp, a $27 billion investment fund created by London-based Gordian Knot Ltd. Sigma failed in October 2008 at the height of the global financial crisis.
According to the complaint and a regulatory filing, JPMorgan invested cash collateral posted by participants in a securities lending program in about $500 million of medium-term notes issued by Sigma Finance Inc, a structured investment vehicle.
While Sigma once carried "triple-A" ratings, JPMorgan "buried its head in the sand and refused to heed the warning signs" as analysts began predicting by late 2007 that Sigma would be unable to repay the notes, the complaint said.
Sigma's failure left about $1.9 billion as security for roughly $6.2 billion of medium-term notes and other secured debt, the complaint said.
JPMorgan spokeswoman Kristen Chambers said the New York-based bank did not admit wrongdoing in settling. "We are confident that we acted prudently and appropriately," she added.
The settlement requires court approval. A hearing to consider preliminary approval has been set for June 4.
A securities lending program typically lets an investor lend securities to a broker-dealer, in exchange for cash that a bank invests on behalf of the investor.
SIVs typically used short-term borrowings to make higher-yielding long-term investments. Many buckled as short-term credit markets tightened or froze in 2007 and 2008.
AFTRA is a labor union representing more than 70,000 performers, journalists and other artists.
Other plaintiffs in the JPMorgan case are the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority Pension Fund in New York City, and the Imperial County Employees' Retirement System in El Centro, California.
Bank of New York Mellon Co
The case is Board of Trustees of the AFTRA Retirement Fund et al v. JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 09-00686.
(Reporting By Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
Mon, March 19, 2012
(Reuters) - Apple Inc said it plans to pay a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share and authorized a $10 billion stock buyback program ...
Thu, March 15, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An influential U.S. consumer watchdog is investigating online reports that Apple Inc's new iPad throws off an unusually large ...
Wed, March 14, 2012
By Joan Gralla and Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Computer contractor SAIC will pay New York City more than $500 million under a deal ...
Wed, March 14, 2012
By Basil Katz and Karen Freifeld
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five major U.S. banks have agreed to pay $25 million to New York State ...
Tue, March 13, 2012
By Basil Katz
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CIT Group Inc (CIT.N) on Tuesday asked a federal judge to approve a $75 million settlement proposal ...
Tue, March 13, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing will pay $7 million to settle allegations it failed to diligently supervise accounts that it carried from about May 2007 to December 2009, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Tuesday.
The CFTC said the Goldman unit, which provided back-office and other services to some clients who themselves are broker-dealers, did not properly supervise the handling of subaccounts.
(Reporting By Karey Wutkowski; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)
Mon, March 12, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit finally got his payday. The third biggest U.S. bank company paid Pandit $14.86 million ...
Mon, March 12, 2012
(Reuters) - Utility company PG&E Corp
On September 9, 2010, a blast at the utility's natural gas pipeline killed four people, and an ensuing firestorm destroyed 37 homes and injured more than 50 people in San Bruno.
The company will make the payment within 30 days.
The $70 million payment is in addition to PG&E's commitment to fund replacement and repair of the city's infrastructure and other costs related to the accident, the company said in a statement.
PG&E has a network that includes about 43,000 miles of natural gas distribution pipeline and 6,438 miles of transmission pipeline.
Shares of the San Francisco, California-based company were trading up marginally at $43.14 on the New York stock exchange.
(Reporting by Sunayan Bhattacharjee in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
Fri, March 09, 2012
By Paritosh Bansal and Greg Roumeliotis
(Reuters) - Apollo Global Management LLC
Fri, March 09, 2012
By Margaret Chadbourn
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The regulator for Fannie Mae
Thu, March 08, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit finally got his payday. The third biggest U.S. bank company paid Pandit $14.86 million ...
Mon, March 05, 2012
By Leigh Jones
(Reuters) - The "pay-for-pain" scandal roiling the National Football League could give a big boost to lawsuits already filed against the NFL ...
Sun, March 04, 2012
By Leigh Jones
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A scandal in which U.S. football players got rewarded for injuring opponents could have legal consequences, with ...
Thu, March 01, 2012
By Ross Kerber
(Reuters) - Janus Capital Group
Thu, March 01, 2012
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co defended its executive structure and pay on Thursday after the company said a shareholder governance group objected to ...
Thu, March 01, 2012
By Mike Collett-White
LONDON (Reuters) - Two British galleries have raised 45 million pounds ($72 million) for an important painting by Renaissance master Titian, dipping ...
Tue, February 28, 2012
(Reuters) - David Sokol, who left Berkshire Hathaway
Tue, February 28, 2012
By Paritosh Bansal and Greg Roumeliotis
(Reuters) - Blackstone Group LP
Fri, February 17, 2012
By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitsui & Co Ltd's MOEX Offshore agreed with the U.S. Justice Department to pay at least $90 million to settle some of its liability in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the first government settlement involving the BP Plc Macondo well.
MOEX will pay $70 million in civil penalties for violations of the Clean Water Act and spend at least $20 million on conservation projects in the Gulf states, the Justice Department said on Friday.
The settlement comes just 10 days before the civil trial starts in New Orleans to assign blame for the disaster, the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The accident, which led to almost 5 million barrels of oil spilling, killed 11 people aboard the drilling rig.
BP itself has set aside more than $40 billion to cover spill-related costs. The company has been trying to reach its own settlement with the Obama administration, but whether it can succeed by the February 27 trial is still uncertain.
"We believe that all parties would like to settle before the trial date. However, we believe it is still not a given that all of the parties can meet and resolve the various issues," said Angie Sedita, a managing director of equity research at UBS.
Separately, BP and Schlumberger-owned drilling fluids specialist M-I Swaco agreed to dismiss Deepwater Horizon-related claims against each other, pending court approval.
In the MOEX settlement, $45 million of the civil penalties will go to the federal government and the remaining $25 million will go to the states affected by the oil that polluted their Gulf waters and washed up onshore: Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
The Justice Department said it was the largest civil penalty under the Clean Water Act and emphasized the MOEX settlement did not affect others involved in the Deepwater Horizon spill.
"This landmark settlement is an important step - but only a first step - toward achieving accountability and protecting the future of the Gulf ecosystem by funding critical habitat preservation projects," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
The company, which previously owned a 10 percent stake in the Macondo well, settled with BP last year and agreed to pay $1.1 billion toward the cleanup costs.
"MOEX held only a small share of the Macondo well and had no role in the Deepwater Horizon tragedy," said David Uhlmann, a professor at Michigan University Law School and former chief of the Justice Department's environmental crimes section.
"It makes sense that MOEX is not paying billions in penalties, but the settlement amount is extremely small given the enormous economic losses and natural resource damages caused by the Gulf oil spill," he said.
The proposed settlement was filed in federal court in Louisiana and is subject to approval by a judge.
The case is In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, No. 10-md-02179.
(Additional reporting by Braden Reddall in San Francisco and Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Phil Berlowitz, Andre Grenon and Richard Chang)
Fri, February 17, 2012
By Tim Hepher
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - How do you stump up the money for a $22 billion aircraft deal?
The answer in the case of ...
Wed, February 15, 2012
By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc has agreed to pay $158.3 million to settle U.S. civil claims that it defrauded the government ...
Mon, February 13, 2012
By Donna Smith and Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives on Monday dropped their demand for spending reductions to ...
Wed, February 08, 2012
By Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has agreed to pay a total of $15 million in compensation to some 22,000 ...
Mon, February 06, 2012
(Reuters) - Cyberplex Inc said its debt-laden unit Tsavo Media is required to pay Yahoo Inc $4.8 million for what the U.S. search ...
Mon, February 06, 2012
By Martin de Sa'Pinto and Katharina Bart
ZURICH (Reuters) - Julius Baer
Thu, February 02, 2012
By Katharina Bart
ZURICH (Reuters) - Shareholder group Ethos called for Novartis
Wed, February 01, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives, seeking to cut the U.S. deficit and burnish its own tarnished image, passed a bill on Wednesday ...
Tue, January 31, 2012
By Suzanne Barlyn
(Reuters) - A unit of Citigroup
Tue, January 24, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pressure from financial institutions and Treasury officials undermined an effort to limit executive pay at seven companies rescued with taxpayer money, a ...
Mon, January 23, 2012
By Matt Falloon
LONDON (Reuters) - Shareholders should be given a binding vote over how large British companies manage executive pay and more companies should ...
Mon, January 23, 2012
By John O'Donnell and Julien Toyer
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Commission is considering limiting top bankers' pay to a multiple of junior staff ...
Mon, January 23, 2012
By Michael Erman
(Reuters) - Oil and gas producer Apache Corp
Mon, January 23, 2012
By Jonathan Weber
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - For the San Francisco 49ers, a dream season came up just a couple of botched punt returns short ...
Sun, January 22, 2012
By Dave Warner
STATE COLLEGE, Pa (Reuters) - The son of late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno told 10,000 mourners on Thursday his ...
Fri, January 20, 2012
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co
Fri, January 20, 2012
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co
Thu, January 19, 2012
By Laura Zuckerman
(Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp. would pay more than $2 million in penalties and cleanup costs to Montana for a pipeline rupture ...
Thu, January 19, 2012
(Reuters) - Ford Motor Co
Thu, January 19, 2012
By Corrie MacLaggan
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it will pay $158 million to settle a Texas lawsuit accusing the drugmaker of improperly marketing its Risperdal anti-psychotic drug to state residents on the Medicaid health program for the poor.
The settlement fully resolves all Risperdal-related claims in Texas, the company said. The agreement is specific to the state of Texas and does not involve other ongoing state or federal Risperdal litigation.
The deal settles claims brought by Texas in 2004 and involves alleged Medicaid overpayments during the years 1994 to 2008 "and will circumvent potentially lengthy and costly appellate activities," according to a statement from J&J's Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit.
The settlement will be paid to the original plaintiff, his attorneys, the state of Texas and the federal government, which provides Medicaid reimbursements, the company said.
The complaint against J&J and several of its units filed in U.S. district court in Texas had alleged company representatives "targeted every level of the Texas Medicaid Program with misrepresentations about the safety, superiority, efficacy, appropriate uses and cost effectiveness of Risperdal."
"Janssen ran amok," Allen Jones, the Pennsylvania-based whistleblower on J&J's marketing practices who was a plaintiff along with state of Texas, told reporters in the Austin courthouse.
"They trashed the Johnson & Johnson credo and they misused Texas and, I believe, well-meaning officials, to further their marketing aims," Jones said. "They subverted science and they induced others to betray the people they were supposed to be taking care of. To me that is reprehensible."
The deal marks the first Risperdal settlement with any U.S. state, Janssen spokeswoman Teresa Mueller said.
J&J's once sterling reputation has been battered in the past two years over quality control problems at several of its plants and manufacturing errors that led to massive recalls of a wide variety of its products, including hip replacements, contact lenses, insulin cartridges and heart devices.
Its biggest black eye came from its McNeil consumer healthcare unit, which in a series recalls was forced to pull hundreds of millions of bottles and packages of popular medicines, such as Children's Tylenol, Motrin, Rolaids and Benadryl.
J&J shares were down 28 cents, or 0.4 percent, at $65 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting by Corrie MacLaggan; additional reporting and writing by Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson in New York; editing by Michele Gershberg ...
Wed, January 18, 2012
By Lauren Tara LaCapra
(Reuters) - As Wall Street banks sharply cut costs, many of the industry's star bankers and traders are leaving their ...
Tue, January 17, 2012
(Reuters) - AirTran Airways must reinstate a pilot it fired after he reported numerous mechanical concerns and pay him more than $1 million in back ...
Sun, January 15, 2012
By Samuel Shen and Nishant Kumar
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's $350 billion mutual funds industry may be stumbling due to a sliding ...
Fri, January 13, 2012
By Poornima Gupta
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple revealed its closely guarded list of global suppliers for the first time and vowed to deal with ...
Wed, January 11, 2012
By Ross Kerber
(Reuters) - Federated Investors Inc
Wed, January 11, 2012
ZURICH (Reuters) - Former Swiss National Bank Chairman Philipp Hildebrand will receive his salary for the next 12 months after he stepped down due to ...
Wed, January 11, 2012
WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Warren Buffett is willing to put his money where his mouth is, if only congressional Republicans would join him.
The American ...
Sun, January 08, 2012
(Reuters) - Many partners at Goldman Sachs Group
Fri, January 06, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will propose lifting a federal pay freeze in his upcoming budget plan to give government employees a 0.5 ...
Fri, January 06, 2012
By Stephen Brown and Noah Barkin
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and France warned Greece on Monday it will get no more bailout funds until it ...
Thu, January 05, 2012
(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson is set to pay more than $1 billion to resolve a U.S. civil investigation into the marketing of its Risperdal antipsychotic drug, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing anonymous sources.
The company reached a deal last week with the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia. The deal does not resolve negotiations over a possible criminal plea, the report said.
Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman Teresa Mueller said the company does not comment on rumors or speculation.
In August, J&J said it reached an agreement related to a misdemeanor charge stemming from the Risperdal investigation, although some issues remained unresolved.
(Reporting By Lewis Krauskopf; editing by Andre Grenon)
Thu, January 05, 2012
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Elan Microelectronics Corp, a Taiwanese touch design company, said on Thursday that Apple Inc will pay $5 million as part of a ...
Thu, January 05, 2012
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Elan Microelectronics Corp, a Taiwanese touch design company, said on Thursday that Apple Inc will pay $5 million as part of a ...
Wed, January 04, 2012
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will pay for the removal of breast implants made by a bankrupt French company that were linked to a global health ...
Tue, January 03, 2012
By Sinead Carew and Liana B. Baker
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc has agreed to pay TiVo Inc a minimum of $215 million and additional monthly licensing fees to settle a patent infringement dispute related to recording live TV.
TiVo's shares rose 14 percent in after-hours trade.
TiVo, whose brand is synonymous with a digital video recorders, has turned to litigation to generate revenue from licensing fees as the industry pioneer has struggled to fight competition from low-cost rivals in recent years.
The settlement is the second large victory in recent months for TiVo, which expects fees from AT&T to "significantly exceed" the guaranteed minimum payment.
TiVo also prevailed in a similar longstanding case against Dish Network and Echostar Corp in May. The companies, controlled by Charlie Ergen, agreed to pay TiVo $500 million to settle the dispute.
TiVo CEO Tom Rogers said in an interview that as part of the settlement, he could not reveal how much more revenue TiVo could generate from the deal but added "it's a number that has us holding our head very high."
TiVo will receive additional payments from AT&T that depend upon AT&T's subscriber base of DVR users meeting certain growth targets until 2018.
"No matter which projections you take, they all involve AT&T paying us significantly higher revenue than $215 million," Rogers said.
Todd Mitchell, an analyst for the firm Brean Murray, said he estimates AT&T could end up paying potentially 10 or 20 percent more per year if its TV business keeps growing.
An AT&T spokesman declined to comment.
The same patents involved in the case are a part of a lawsuit TiVo is embroiled in with AT&T's competitor, Verizon. Rogers said now that the AT&T case is settled, the parties will hold a conference and decide on a timetable for the Verizon case.
He added the AT&T settlement bodes well for the Verizon case since Verizon's TV service FiOS, like AT&T'S U-verse service, "has substantially built their business on operating DVRs."
A Verizon spokeswoman did not immediately respond for comment on Tuesday.
AT&T's first payment of $51 million, which was due Tuesday is slightly higher than TiVo's forecast for its fiscal fourth quarter revenue of $48 million to $50 million, announced in November.
The first payment will be followed by quarterly payments through June 2018, according to TiVo. In return the companies have agreed to dismiss all pending litigation and enter a cross licensing agreement.
TiVo shares rose 14 percent to $10.18 in after-hours trading.
(Reporting by Sinead Carew and Liana B. Baker; editing by Carol Bishopric)
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The Justice Department alleged that Merck promoted the drug for treating rheumatoid arthritis before it had been approved for that condition by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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The Justice Department said Merck also agreed to a corporate integrity agreement to strengthen oversight over its marketing. Merck said the settlement does not mean it admits liability or wrongdoing.
"We believe that Merck acted responsibly and in good faith in connection with the conduct at issue in these civil settlement agreements, including activities concerning the safety profile of Vioxx," said Bruce Kuhlik, executive vice president and general counsel of Merck, in a statement.
The large American drugmaker had already told investors in October 2010 it was taking a $950 million charge related to the U.S. government probe.
The civil settlement agreement is signed with the United States and individually with 43 states and the District of Columbia, but previously disclosed litigation with seven states is still unresolved, Merck said.
States have said the company misled regulators about the dangers associated with Vioxx, which has been linked in lawsuits to increasing users' risk of heart attacks and other serious cardiovascular side effects.
In 2007, Merck also agreed to pay $4.85 billion to settle lawsuits filed by thousands of former Vioxx users, who alleged the pill caused heart attacks.
(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch and Anna Yukhananov; Editing by Tim Dobbyn and Carol Bishopric)
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Fri, April 08, 2011
Cathy Konrad filed a $3 million (£1.9 million) lawsuit last May (10), claiming she developed the horror franchise and was entitled to produce ...
Thu, April 07, 2011
By Clare Baldwin and Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - After piloting the No. 2 U.S. bank through the financial crisis relatively unscathed, JPMorgan ...
Tue, April 05, 2011
By Ann Saphir
CHICAGO (Reuters) - CBOE Holdings Inc <CBOE.O> Chief Executive Officer William Brodsky, who steered the operator of the biggest U.S ...
Mon, April 04, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WIBQ) - House Democrats who shirked their responsibilities and fled the Indiana Statehouse for a five-week walkout will soon be payingtheir imposed fines ...
Mon, April 04, 2011
House Democrats who shirked their responsibilities and fled the Indiana Statehouse for a five-week walkout will soon be payingtheir imposed fines.
State Auditor Tim ...
Fri, April 01, 2011
By Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has agreed to pay a fine of $42,000 for accepting free tickets ...
Fri, April 01, 2011
By Bernie Woodall
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co <F.N> Chief Executive Alan Mulally's total compensation rose 48 percent to $26.5 million ...
Fri, April 01, 2011
By Cyntia Barrera Diaz
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Though he is struggling to break into the television market on his home turf, Mexico's Carlos ...
Fri, April 01, 2011
The fifth season of the hit programme, which stars Jon Hamm and January Jones, was due to start shooting this spring (11) ahead of ...
Fri, April 01, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WIBQ) - Now that the Democrats are back at the statehouse, the Republicans want their money.
You remember...the fines leveed against Democrats ...
Fri, April 01, 2011
(Reuters) - The heads of bailed-out mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae <FNMA.OB> and Freddie Mac <FMCC.OB> were paid fat salaries without proper written ...
Fri, April 01, 2011
(Reuters) - Morgan Stanley <MS.N>, Goldman Sachs <GS.N> and JPMorgan Chase & Co <JPM.N> will soon join Citigroup <C.N> and Bank of ...
Thu, March 31, 2011
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Kraft Foods Inc <KFT.N> Chief Executive Officer Irene Rosenfeld took a sharp pay cut in 2010 after the largest North American ...
Wed, March 30, 2011
By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators proposed new rules on Wednesday designed to restore lending discipline, and to bolster the ...
Tue, March 29, 2011
(Reuters) - Levi Strauss & Co <LEVST.UL> agreed to pay more than $1 million in back wages for overtime to about 600 employees after the ...
Tue, March 29, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toys R Us <TOY.UL> has agreed to pay a $1.3 million penalty for violating a 1998 order that barred it ...
Mon, March 28, 2011
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The owners of a California Web site that sold Beatles songs for 25 cents each before they went on sale legally ...
Thu, March 24, 2011
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Robert Rizzo, the former city administrator for Bell, California, at the center of a pay scandal over his $1.5 million ...
Thu, March 24, 2011
By Michael Peltier
TALLAHASSEE, Fla (Reuters) - Following weeks of debate and national attention, Florida Governor Rick Scott on Thursday signed into law a measure ...
Wed, March 23, 2011
By Joan Gralla
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City should require its retired public employees to pay for Medicare Part B premiums -- the way ...
Tue, March 22, 2011
LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC <HSBA.L> is sounding out its shareholders over a proposed shake-up of its pay plans that would see top executives assessed ...
Fri, March 18, 2011
By Ritsuko Ando and Liana B. Baker
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc <CSCO.O> plans to pay a dividend ...
Thu, March 17, 2011
By Jennifer Saba
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times will start charging for full access to its articles on phones, tablet computers and ...
Wed, March 16, 2011
By Michael Peltier
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida lawmakers gave final legislative approval on Wednesday to a bill aimed at replacing teacher tenure with a ...
Wed, March 16, 2011
By Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a year in which Johnson & Johnson's product quality control was deemed such a ...
Wed, March 16, 2011
By Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a year in which Johnson & Johnson's product quality control was deemed such a ...
Fri, March 11, 2011
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - The compensation of Bank of New York Mellon Corp's chief executive rose by 38 percent last year on stock ...
Mon, March 07, 2011
By Steve Slater
LONDON (Reuters) - New Barclays boss Bob Diamond and his two replacements as head of the investment banking arm were paid 28 ...
Fri, March 04, 2011
The second installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is due to open in London in July (11), but the film's star ...
Thu, March 03, 2011
By Matthew Belloni
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rocker Courtney Love has settled the lawsuit brought against her by a fashion designer who claims she ...
Thu, March 03, 2011
Warner Bros. and CBS network executives were left unimpressed after Sheen branded Lorre a ""stupid, stupid little man and a p**sy punk"" for ...
Wed, March 02, 2011
By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators issued a proposal on Wednesday to curb bonuses at brokerage and investment advisory firms ...
Wed, March 02, 2011
BANGALORE (Reuters) - The New York Times Co forecast higher first-quarter expenses and said February print advertising revenue fell, though print ad trends are improving ...
Wed, March 02, 2011
By Denny Thomas, Rachel Armstrong and Dave Clarke
HONG KONG/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International regulators have touted success at reining in bank bonuses, but creeping ...
Thu, February 24, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials are considering including tests for sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and hepatitis B for the elderly and disabled ...
Wed, February 23, 2011
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A court hearing for a former official of a small California city at the center of a scandal over his annual ...
Fri, February 18, 2011
The star's He's Just Not That Into You castmate knew his pal Joey Kern was perfect for her - and spent weeks trying ...
Thu, February 17, 2011
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's capital wants the United States to apologize and pay $1 billion for the damage done to the city not by ...
Tue, February 15, 2011
By Corbett B. Daly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key congressional panel charged with overseeing financial matters plans to question Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives ...
Mon, February 14, 2011
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co <GM.N> will pay its 45,000 hourly workers in the United States a bonus of at least $4 ...
Mon, February 14, 2011
By Victor Gomez
LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador (Reuters) - A court in Ecuador's Amazon told Chevron Corp on Monday to pay $8.6 billion in ...
Mon, February 14, 2011
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Frustrated with slow mobile Internet speeds and stalling videos, consumers are willing to dole out extra cash for better telecommunicaitons services, allowing ...
Mon, February 14, 2011
DUBAI (Reuters) - Like a toddler taking his first stumbling steps, Tiger Woods's new swing sometimes falters but the former world number one remains ...
Fri, February 11, 2011
By Liana B. Baker
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top executive at Activision Blizzard, the largest video game publisher in the United States, defended the ...
Thu, February 10, 2011
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co <GM.N> and Chrysler Group LLC could award some managers bonuses of up to 50 percent of their salary ...
Thu, February 10, 2011
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. meat producer Tyson Foods Inc said it will pay $4 million to the U.S. Justice Department and $1.2 ...
Thu, February 10, 2011
By Dave Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's tough, but short-lived, crackdown on pay at the biggest U.S. banks will have little ...
Sun, February 06, 2011
By Dave Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regulators began their most forceful attempt yet to clamp down on bank bonuses since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, and ...
Sat, February 05, 2011
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp <BAC.N> has agreed to pay $410 million to settle lawsuits accusing it of ...
Fri, February 04, 2011
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - The independent studio behind the hit "Twilight" films wants a judge to force bankrupt movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc to pay ...
Fri, February 04, 2011
John, best known in the U.K. for her recent role in hit comedy Gavin & Stacey, passed away at a hospital in Swansea, Wales ...
Thu, February 03, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shoppers in Tennessee, California, Arizona, Louisiana and Washington state pay the highest retail sales tax rates, according to a report released on ...
Thu, February 03, 2011
By Moira Herbst
NEW YORK, Nov 22 (Reuters Legal) - There has never been anything quite like Kenneth Feinberg's $20 billion Gulf Coast Claims ...
Thu, February 03, 2011
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Newly trained female doctors in the United States make nearly $17,000 less than their male counterparts, even though ...
Tue, February 01, 2011
(Ann Arbor, MI) -- In a sign of worsening times for the major bookseller, Borders Group, Inc. was unable to pay its bills for a ...
Mon, January 31, 2011
By Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -- Hospitals that spend more money treating patients with acute illnesses may be better at keeping those patients ...
Fri, January 28, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Express Co said it changed the annual compensation plan for Chief Executive Kenneth Chenault and will now pay him largely ...
Fri, January 28, 2011
Prince Frederic von Anhalt put the property up for sale last week (ends23Jan11) after Gabor, 93, had part of her right leg amputated to ...
Fri, January 28, 2011
(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp may give some investment bankers a greater share of their bonus payments in cash for 2010 compared to the ...
Tue, January 25, 2011
By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shareholders of publicly listed companies will get to weigh in on executive compensation through advisory votes, under a ...
Mon, January 24, 2011
ASHWAUBENON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Fans looking to see the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl better be ready to pay up.
The cheapest tickets ...
Mon, January 24, 2011
DENVER (Reuters) - Carmelo Anthony got off to a sluggish start but caught fire in the third quarter as the Denver Nuggets crushed the Indiana ...
Fri, January 21, 2011
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (Reuters) - The Catholic church on Friday said it would pay nearly a million dollars to a man allegedly sexually abused at ...
Wed, January 19, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More U.S. technology and engineering workers got bonuses and pay raises last year than in 2009, but the pay hikes ...
Mon, January 17, 2011
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - The NFL's oldest rivalry renewed will cost you a pretty penny to see it in person.
Right now, the ...
Thu, January 13, 2011
The movie star admits it became a chore to face the paparazzi as he tried to battle his health crisis in private, and he ...
Fri, January 07, 2011
(Reuters) - American International Group Inc <AIG.N> has agreed in principle to pay $450 million to settle a lawsuit with rival insurance companies over ...
Thu, January 06, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Long Island broker has agreed to pay $350,000 in a settlement to an order of mostly elderly nuns in ...
Mon, January 03, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state employees should be asked to accept a wage freeze, and when their contracts expire, pay cuts could be ...
Tue, December 28, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - SAP AG must pay Oracle Corp prejudgment interest on a recent $1.3 billion copyright infringement verdict, but not at the ...
Mon, December 27, 2010
ZURICH (Reuters) - Global banking supervisors tackling issues like bonuses, which drew ire during the economic crisis, said banks should disclose how an individual's ...
Wed, December 22, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bailed-out insurer American International Group will pay $100 million in fines in a settlement with all 50 states over reporting errors ...
Tue, December 21, 2010
By Grant McCool and Ben Berkowitz
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank <DBKGn.DE> admitted criminal wrongdoing for taking part in fraudulent tax shelters that ...
Tue, December 21, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Internet video service Hulu is ditching plans to go public for now, choosing to focus on other financing options and new ...
Tue, December 21, 2010
By John Crawley and Chang-Ran Kim
WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor <7203.T> has agreed to pay the maximum fine of $32.4 million ...
Wed, December 15, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - The political pot continues to stir over the now-defunct plan to build a high-speed train from Milwaukee to Madison.
Assembly Democrat ...
Mon, December 13, 2010
By Anna Driver
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The administrator of BP Plc's <BP.L> $20 billion fund to compensate U.S. Gulf Coast residents affected ...
Fri, December 10, 2010
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co will seek some relaxation of executive pay restrictions imposed by the U.S. government as a ...
Thu, December 09, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation to avert a 25 percent pay cut for doctors treating patients covered by the federal Medicare health insurance program for the ...
Wed, December 08, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday agreed to avert a 25 percent pay cut for doctors treating patients covered by the Medicare health program ...
Tue, December 07, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories <ABT.N> and two other drugmakers will pay $421 million to settle allegations that they falsely inflated product prices ...
Tue, December 07, 2010
By Alan Baldwin
LONDON (Reuters) - The Renault Formula One team apologized unreservedly to triple world champion Nelson Piquet and his son on Tuesday and ...
Tue, December 07, 2010
Darryl McCauley, who worked as the funnyman's business manager for almost five years, was arrested in Massachusetts in December 2008, accused of stealing ...
Fri, December 03, 2010
By David Fogarty
SEMPIT, Indonesia (Reuters) - Deep in the flooded jungles of southern Borneo, muddy peat oozes underfoot like jello, threatening to consume anyone ...
Fri, December 03, 2010
In the film, inspired by true events, Carrey stars as jailed con artist Steven Jay Russell who falls in love with his cellmate, Phillip ...
Thu, December 02, 2010
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dennis Kozlowski, the imprisoned former chief executive of Tyco International Ltd, was ordered by a judge to forfeit ...
Wed, December 01, 2010
The Naked Gun star passed away in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 12 days after he was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia.
Nielsen's death ...
Mon, November 29, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation to postpone for one month a hefty cut in payments to doctors who participate in the U.S. Medicare health insurance ...
Mon, November 29, 2010
By Caren Bohan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed a two-year freeze on Monday on the pay of federal workers and vowed to work ...
Mon, November 29, 2010
By David Dolan
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Wal-Mart <WMT.N> made a $2.3 billion formal bid for control of Massmart <MSMJ.J>, giving the world ...
Mon, November 29, 2010
By Katie Reid
ZURICH (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson <JNJ.N> must pay former Swiss partner Basilea <BSLN.S> about $130 million for breaching a license ...
Thu, November 25, 2010
By Sudip Kar-Gupta
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top banks are still talking to the government about pay packages, a banking lobby group said on ...
Tue, November 23, 2010
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, the fugitive former chief executive of Comverse Technology Inc, agreed to pay nearly $54 million ...
Tue, November 23, 2010
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WIBQ) - An arbitrator's decision on a pay dispute will cost the city of Terre Haute more than half a million ...
Fri, November 19, 2010
By Maria Aspan and Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co <WFC.N> will pay Citigroup Inc <C.N> $100 million to settle ...
Fri, November 19, 2010
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission has ordered Italy to repay 720,000 euros ($1 million) used by local authorities to pay for a concert ...
Fri, November 19, 2010
By James Pomfret
FOSHAN, China (Reuters) - Chinese electronics maker Foxconn, a key manufacturer of iPhones and iPads for Apple, has been hit by a ...
Thu, November 18, 2010
Aussie director Baz Luhrmann also joined family members and friends for the send-off at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Downtown ...
Fri, November 12, 2010
By Joseph A. Giannone
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley <MS.N> was ordered by arbitrators this week to pay Merrill Lynch nearly $1 million ...
Tue, November 09, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc will give its staff a 10 percent pay increase at the start of next year, according to website Silicon ...
Tue, November 09, 2010
By Dave Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Large banks would be required to pay more into the government fund used to cover the cost of seizing ...
Tue, November 09, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Large banks would be required to pay more into the government fund used to cover the cost of seizing failed banks, according ...
Mon, November 08, 2010
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The American Medical Association unleashed its latest salvo on Monday in its campaign against cuts in Medicare payments to ...
Mon, November 08, 2010
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday it is not the government's role to set levels of executive pay at ...
Wed, November 03, 2010
By Jim Finkle and Dan Levine
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Germany's SAP AG has agreed to pay $120 million to Oracle Corp in return ...
Mon, November 01, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bailed-out insurer AIG <AIG.N> raised $27.71 billion cash in 10 days with the initial public offering of its Asian ...
Sat, October 30, 2010
The former Playmate and Baywatch star posed nude for the January, 2011 issue, and had the check sent directly to Waves 4 Water, a ...
Fri, October 29, 2010
At least 150 people have died after a massive tremor hit off the coast of western Sumatra on Monday and triggered a terrifying tsunami ...
Thu, October 28, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The top U.S. mobile service, Verizon Wireless, has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $25 million on top of ...
Wed, October 27, 2010
By Steve Ginsburg
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russ Grimm's tireless work ethic during an 11-year NFL career was befitting of a man who grew up ...
Tue, October 26, 2010
By Georg Szalai
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Katie Couric's future, once her CBS News contract ends, will be whereever she can have a ...
Tue, October 26, 2010
By Toni Clarke
BOSTON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc has agreed to pay $750 million and plead guilty to manufacturing and distributing adulterated drugs from a ...
Tue, October 26, 2010
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WIBQ) - It will cost Vigo County teachers more money for their insurance. The School Board has voted to increase employee health ...
Mon, October 25, 2010
TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) - BP agreed to sell four fields in the deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico to Japan's Marubeni Corp for $650 ...
Fri, October 22, 2010
The beloved American actor, best-known as Happy Days patriarch Howard Cunningham on the hit 1970s and 80s TV sitcom, passed away at a hospital ...
Thu, October 21, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 22 (Reuters Legal) - California's attorney general asked a state court on Thursday to appoint a monitor to oversee the finances ...
Thu, October 21, 2010
OLNEY, Ill. (WIBQ) - A Wabash Valley trucking company will have to pay it's former workers $300,000. The Labor Department claims HHMT Inc ...
Wed, October 20, 2010
PARIS (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov will no longer have to pay a $1.7 million fine to cycling's governing body after the ...
Tue, October 19, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will spend up to $760 million to compensate American Indian farmers who were unfairly denied loans by the ...
Tue, October 19, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 17,000 doctors and other healthcare providers have taken money from seven major drug companies to talk to other doctors ...
Tue, October 19, 2010
By Tom Bergin
LONDON (Reuters) - BP <BP.L> Chief Executive Bob Dudley has stepped up his battle to rebuild the troubled oil giant's ...
Thu, October 14, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - CVS Caremark Corp has agreed to pay $77.6 million to settle an investigation that its drugstores allowed widespread sales of ...
Thu, October 14, 2010
By Tom Hals
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - A maker of Chinese drywall, builders and State Farm Insurance will pay for hundreds of U.S. homes ...
Wed, October 13, 2010
By Shravya Jain
BANGALORE (Reuters) - The United States is spending up to $2.8 billion to shore up its defenses against biological warfare, according ...
Wed, October 13, 2010
By Zoran Milosavljevic
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian hooligans were widely condemned on Wednesday as UEFA began an investigation that could lead to the Balkan country ...
Wed, October 13, 2010
By Hamid Shalizi
KABUL (Reuters) - Cash from the U.S. military and international donors destined for construction and welfare projects in restive parts of ...
Tue, October 12, 2010
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's DeNA Co will buy ngmoco Inc, a U.S. developer of games for Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad for ...
Tue, October 12, 2010
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Employee compensation and benefits at U.S. financial institutions is set to grow 4 percent in 2010 and is on its way ...
Sun, October 10, 2010
New figures for Footwork Productions show that turnover has fallen from $23.2 million (£15.5 million) in 2005 to $17.1 million (£11 ...
Thu, October 07, 2010
By Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Education needs to get tougher on enforcing a ban on incentives for college and vocational school ...
Thu, October 07, 2010
By Joseph A. Giannone
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Larry Hagman, the actor who played the villainous J.R. Ewing in 1980s TV show "Dallas," became ...
Mon, October 04, 2010
By Ray Bennett
TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Combining a backstage theatrical romance and a drama about a bank robbery into one spoof might have seemed ...
Sun, October 03, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless in a statement Sunday said it will pay millions of dollars in refunds to 15 million cell phone customers ...
Sat, October 02, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A nationwide survey shows Wisconsin is not alone as it struggles to find ways to pay for rising Medicaid enrollment.
The ...
Fri, October 01, 2010
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WIBQ) - Terre Haute firefighters will not be getting a pay raise. The City Council denied a request to bring firefighter salaries ...
Fri, October 01, 2010
The caring star didn't want to waste time waiting tables while she went for talent auditions and so she spent a year working ...
Thu, September 30, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A unit of BP Plc has agreed to pay $15 million to settle Clean Air Act violations related to fires and a ...
Wed, September 29, 2010
By Georg Szalai
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Oliver Stone said Wednesday that his "Wall Street" sequel benefited "enormously" from product placement, which helped expand ...
Wed, September 29, 2010
By Paritosh Bansal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc and the U.S. government laid out a plan for the insurer to repay ...
Fri, September 24, 2010
By Maria Aspan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc <C.N> said on Friday its board of directors would raise Chief Executive Vikram Pandit's ...
Fri, September 24, 2010
By Dave Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Friday said they doubted financial companies would try to skirt new rules designed to crack ...
Tue, September 21, 2010
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The mayor, former city manager and most of the city council in a Los Angeles suburb were arrested ...
Thu, September 16, 2010
By Grant McCool
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a case stemming from the public outcry over multimillion dollar executive pay even as the U.S ...
Wed, September 15, 2010
By James Hibberd
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The stars of "The Big Bang Theory" are getting a big salary increase as CBS moves the ...
Wed, September 15, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's attorney general on Wednesday brought a lawsuit against eight local officials at the center of a public pay scandal ...
Mon, September 13, 2010
By Gabriel Madway and Liana Baker
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to buy security software company ArcSight Inc for $1.5 ...
Sun, September 12, 2010
By Adrian Croft
LONDON (Reuters) - Rich countries should pay for African governments to get advice on negotiating the best deals for exploiting their natural ...
Sat, September 11, 2010
By Muhanad Mohammed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has signed a deal with the United States to settle claims from Americans who say they were mistreated ...
Fri, September 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury Department has selected Patricia Geoghegan to replace Kenneth Feinberg as the "pay czar" overseeing compensation at companies bailed out by ...
Tue, September 07, 2010
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Many Wisconsin companies are slowly restoring the employee pay and benefit cuts they imposed during the recession.
The employers’ group of ...
Tue, September 07, 2010
Bosses at Worldwide Entertainment Group sued Hilton and her company, Paris Hilton Entertainment, for breach of contract in 2008, claiming the socialite/actress failed ...
Tue, September 07, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oracle Corp offered its new co-president, Mark Hurd, former head of Hewlett-Packard Co, a salary of $950,000 and a bonus ...
Fri, September 03, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Miami police union sued the city this week for abandoning their collective bargaining agreement and pushing through emergency pay and ...
Wed, September 01, 2010
By Debra Sherman and Jeremy Pelofsky
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Allergan Inc <AGN.N>has agreed to plead guilty and pay $600 million to resolve ...
Wed, September 01, 2010
BOSTON (Reuters) - As U.S. companies shed millions of workers during the recession, the CEOs who laid off the most people brought home pay ...
Tue, August 31, 2010
By Zorianna Kit
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the second straight year, "Transformers" star Shia LaBeouf topped a Forbes.com list of Hollywood's Best ...
Mon, August 30, 2010
By Nick Zieminski
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Diversified U.S. manufacturer 3M Co said it would buy Cogent Inc for $943 million, paying a nearly ...
Thu, August 26, 2010
Niki Cloyd pleaded no contest to one misdemeanour count of vandalism after she was reportedly caught on camera causing significant damage to Osbourne's ...
Wed, August 25, 2010
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Members of American Airlines' mechanics union rejected a contract proposal and authorized union leaders to call a strike, the Transport Workers Union ...
Wed, August 18, 2010
By Joe Rauch
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Bank of America <BAC.N> Merrill Lynch will pay $2.5 million in restitution and fines after ...
Mon, August 16, 2010
Sheen, who has been sentenced to 30 days in rehab for his Christmas Day (25Dec09) altercation with wife Brooke Mueller, nets a whopping $1 ...
Fri, August 13, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Workers at Wolf Appliance reject a company offer of a 20 percent cut in pay and benefits.
Union members say Thursday ...
Thu, August 12, 2010
By Erwin Seba
HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc will pay a record $50.6 million fine for lingering safety problems from a deadly 2005 explosion ...
Fri, August 06, 2010
TERRE HAUTE (WIBQ) - If a new ordinance is passed, people could find their cars towed for unpaid tickets. Under the proposed ordinance, the city ...
Thu, August 05, 2010
By Carl DiOrio
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - These kids are all right.
There's a spreading sense of optimism in Hollywood about young consumers ...
Wed, August 04, 2010
By Jim Christie
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has state employees on the ropes.
Growing public outrage over their pay, benefits and ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
By Braden Reddall
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Funds that own 1 percent of Occidental Petroleum Corp <OXY.N> are targeting board seats at the fourth-largest ...
Thu, July 29, 2010
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Executive compensation at large and mid-sized U.S. companies is expected to rebound modestly this year after two consecutive years of declines ...
Thu, July 29, 2010
By Maria Aspan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc <C.N> will pay $75 million to settle charges that it failed to disclose subprime exposure ...
Thu, July 29, 2010
TOKYO (Reuters) - A local court ordered the Japanese government on Thursday to compensate residents living near a U.S. airbase on the southern Okinawa ...
Tue, July 27, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The family of an unarmed black man killed in a hail of 50 bullets fired by New York City police officers ...
Tue, July 27, 2010
(Lansing, MI) -- Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has announced a settlement with drugmaker Ortho-McNeil-Jannsen, which will give the state 584-thousand dollars. The settlement came ...
Fri, July 23, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said a report on Friday that 17 banks paid lavish bonuses while getting big bailouts from taxpayers showed the ...
Fri, July 23, 2010
By Glenn Somerville and Pedro da Costa
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seventeen financial firms made "ill-advised" payments to executives totaling $1.6 billion while taxpayers were ...
Thu, July 22, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc are among those Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg will cite ...
Thu, July 22, 2010
By Gabriel Madway
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc <DELL.O> on Thursday agreed to pay $100 million to settle charges by market regulators that ...
Tue, July 20, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways cabin crew have voted against a revised pay offer to settle a long-running dispute, their union said Tuesday, but the ...
Tue, July 20, 2010
By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama pushed the Senate on Tuesday to pass long-stalled legislation that would make it easier for women ...
Tue, July 20, 2010
By Tom Bergin
LONDON (Reuters) - BP <BP.L> said it is to sell gas fields and an associated pipeline and terminal in Vietnam, worth ...
Tue, July 20, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways' <BAY.L> main cabin crew union, Unite, said on Tuesday its members had rejected a revised airline pay offer, in ...
Fri, July 16, 2010
By Larry Fine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flowers were placed on home plate, a moment of silence was observed and Taps was played by a ...
Fri, July 16, 2010
By Paritosh Bansal and Steve Eder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc <AIG.N> agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running ...
Fri, July 16, 2010
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - A California judge on Friday denied Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempt to force State Controller John Chiang to process pay cuts ...
Wed, July 14, 2010
By Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge hearing a dispute between the Federal Trade Commission and a generic drug company slammed the U.S ...
Tue, July 13, 2010
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Mark Neumann’s campaign for governor admits that he failed to pay over $25,000 in state government transfer fees for ...
Mon, July 12, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Health insurers that have jacked up rates for individuals and small employers in Wisconsin might have to give some of that ...
Sun, July 04, 2010
By Mark Gleeson
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa must persuade its top rugby teams to use the new World Cup stadiums if the impressive infrastructure ...
Sun, July 04, 2010
TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States has asked Japan to shoulder additional costs for shifting part of the U.S. Marines based in southern Japan ...
Thu, July 01, 2010
By Greg Stutchbury
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - United States rugby coach Eddie O'Sullivan pulls no punches when he approaches former American football players to give ...
Sat, June 26, 2010
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will pay Helmerich and Payne for a fleet of oil rigs it seized from the U.S. company, the oil minister ...
Fri, June 25, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A jury on Friday awarded $8 million in compensatory damages to a Florida woman who sued Merck & Co, alleging the company ...
Wed, June 23, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kenneth Feinberg will step down from his role as Treasury's "pay czar" later this summer to focus on administering the BP ...
Tue, June 22, 2010
By Chang-Ran Kim, Asia autos correspondent
YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said his total compensation last business year was $9 ...
Mon, June 21, 2010
By Joan Gralla
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eleven East Coast U.S. states have told BP they will hold it responsible for any losses caused ...
Fri, June 18, 2010
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate agreed on Friday to rescind a 21 percent pay cut that went into effect earlier this month ...
Fri, June 18, 2010
JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - A $20 billion fund set up by energy giant BP Plc to compensate financial losses due to a big oil spill ...
Fri, June 18, 2010
By Isabel Reynolds
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp CEO Howard Stringer took home $4.5 million plus stock options in the past financial year -- when ...
Thu, June 17, 2010
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp CEO Howard Stringer was paid 410 million yen ($4.5 million) for the financial year ended March 2010, the company ...
Thu, June 17, 2010
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - A Republican candidate for governor said Thursday he would save $180 million a year, by making state employees put their ...
Wed, June 16, 2010
By Tom Bergin
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil giant BP said it would not pay three quarters of dividends, significantly reduce its investment program and sell ...
Wed, June 16, 2010
By Jon Herskovitz
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - One of the greatest fears for the hundreds of thousands of tourists visiting South Africa for the World Cup ...
Mon, June 14, 2010
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - 8th District Congressman Steve Kagen plans to introduce a bill asking British Petroleum to make an immediate payment to the ...
Sat, June 12, 2010
By Martin Petty
PORT ELIZABETH (Reuters) - South Korea chalked up the first win of this year's World Cup finals with a fluent 2-0 ...
Fri, June 11, 2010
By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cellphone rivals Motorola Inc and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd have reached a technology licensing agreement, ending ...
Fri, June 11, 2010
By James Pomfret
ZHONGSHAN, China (Reuters) - Workers at a lock factory in southern China that supplies Honda Motor Co <7267.T> challenged managers on ...
Wed, June 09, 2010
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hyatt Hotels Corp <H.N> is trying to lock its workers into recession-era wages despite an economic uptick that has helped bolster ...
Tue, June 08, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - British telecoms group BT <BT.L> said it had made a new two-year pay offer to its workers in a bid to ...
Mon, June 07, 2010
By Martinne Geller and Nivedita Bhattacharjee
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co <KO.N> will pay Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc <DPS.N> $715 million ...
Tue, June 01, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More U.S. employers expect to pay higher salaries to new hires as demand for professional staff improves with a stronger ...
Fri, May 28, 2010
By Steve Slater
LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC's <HSBA.L> executive pay policy got a grudging green light on Friday, along with a stinging rebuke ...
Wed, May 26, 2010
By Myles Neligan and Cecilia Valente
LONDON (Reuters) - Prudential <PRU.L> has entered talks to cut its $35.5 billion offer for AIG's ...
Wed, May 26, 2010
By Helen Chernikoff
LOUISVILLE, Kent. (Reuters) - In the depths of what United Parcel Service calls its "Primary Matrix," not a soul stands alongside the ...
Fri, May 21, 2010
By Sumeet Chatterjee and Bharghavi Nagaraju
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc <ABT.N> will pay $3.72 billion to acquire the branded generics business ...
Tue, May 18, 2010
By Joan Gralla
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The slot machine supplier that will be chosen to expand gambling at Aqueduct Racetrack must give New York ...
Mon, May 17, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will pay $200 million to VirnetX Holding Corp and obtain a patent license to settle litigation accusing it of ...
Fri, May 07, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Baxter Healthcare Services on Friday were ordered to pay a combined $500 million in punitive damages to ...
Fri, May 07, 2010
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt was ordered on Friday to pay his estranged wife, who is seeking ...
Fri, May 07, 2010
By Joe Rauch
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - A British tax on bank executives' bonuses will cost two of the biggest U.S. banks a ...
Wed, May 05, 2010
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers in the House of Representatives unveiled a bill on Wednesday similar to an effort in the ...
Wed, May 05, 2010
By David Brunnstrom
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The head of NATO Wednesday put the cost of linking up the alliance's missile defense systems at less ...
Mon, May 03, 2010
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, will pay $27.6 million to settle a lawsuit alleging ...
Fri, April 30, 2010
By Tom Bergin
LONDON (Reuters) - BP Plc will compensate all those affected by an oil spill from one of its wells in the Gulf ...
Thu, April 29, 2010
By Steve Eder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Obama administration's pay czar said on Thursday that the lure of fat paychecks influenced Goldman Sachs ...
Thu, April 29, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Johnson and Johnson <JNJ.N> subsidiaries agreed to pay more than $81 million to resolve allegations of illegal promotion of the ...
Mon, April 26, 2010
By Paritosh Bansal and Megan Davies
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (Reuters) - Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg sees early signs some Wall Street firms are voluntarily toughening ...
Mon, April 26, 2010
By Paritosh Bansal and Megan Davies
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (Reuters) - U.S. pay czar Kenneth Feinberg sees early signs some Wall Street firms are ...
Sun, April 25, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund pledged on Sunday to keep working on plans to make bankers bear the burden of their own bad ...
Sun, April 25, 2010
By Yinka Adegoke
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street expects Comcast Corp <CMCSA.O> to post another solid quarter of customer additions and financials, but ...
Fri, April 23, 2010
By Raji Menon
LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds <LLOY.L> and Royal Bank of Scotland <RBS.L> could face stormy investor meetings in the next two ...
Thu, April 22, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHBL) - U.S. Senator Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) efforts to block congressional pay raises passed the Senate Thursday.
The legislation, part ...
Thu, April 22, 2010
By Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About four 4 million people in the United States could be fined for failing to buy health insurance when ...
Wed, April 21, 2010
(Lansing, MI) -- Merrill Lynch has reached a settlement with the state of Michigan over unregistered securities transactions. The state Office of Financial and Insurance ...
Mon, April 19, 2010
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc <WMT.N> CEO Michael Duke received a compensation package worth a bit more than $19 million in the fiscal ...
Sun, April 18, 2010
By Soyoung Kim and Bernie Woodall
DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to pay a record $16.4 million fine to U.S ...
Fri, April 16, 2010
By Joe Rauch
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp's new chief financial officer could earn as much as $8.5 million ...
Fri, April 16, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's pay czar issued rulings on Friday for a second tier of top earners at bailed-out companies and said ...
Thu, April 15, 2010
By Michael Peltier
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida Governor Charlie Crist, fighting for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, stirred more speculation he ...
Thu, April 15, 2010
(In para 20, corrects to baker sold bread to Afghan soldiers, not U.S. Marines)
By Mark Chisholm
MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - With heavy fighting ...
Tue, April 13, 2010
By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators proposed large banks pay higher fees if they engage in risky activities, introducing a new "scorecard ...
Tue, April 13, 2010
TERRE HAUTE (WIBQ)-Vigo County school officials are turning down their pay raises.
Thousands of dollars will be saved thanks to an effort superintendent ...
Mon, April 12, 2010
By Jeffrey Jones
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - China's state-owned Sinopec plans to buy ConocoPhillips' stake in the huge Syncrude project in Canada's oil ...
Mon, April 12, 2010
By Paritosh Bansal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc <AIG.N> "strongly objected" last year when U.S. pay czar Kenneth Feinberg imposed ...
Mon, April 12, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lowe's Companies Inc <LOW.N> said on Monday that it will sell $1 billion of debt in two parts and ...
Fri, April 09, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp <MCD.N> Chief Executive Jim Skinner received 2009 compensation of $17.6 million, more than double his 2007 ...
Fri, April 09, 2010
By Pratish Narayanan and Michael Erman
MUMBAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Indian energy giant Reliance Industries will pay $1.7 billion to form a joint ...
Wed, April 07, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home Depot Inc <HD.N> Chief Executive Frank Blake was awarded $9.9 million of total compensation in 2009, about 6 ...
Wed, April 07, 2010
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc will pay $9 million to settle an Ohio antitrust lawsuit accusing it of conspiring ...
Sun, April 04, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The average compensation for chief executives at the largest publicly traded U.S. companies fell 15 percent last year to $9 ...
Fri, April 02, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bailed-out insurer American International Group on Friday outlined the 2010 compensation for two executives, after last month's clampdown on pay ...
Fri, April 02, 2010
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Increasingly confident about the job market, U.S. workers expect higher pay in a economic recovery or many ...
Thu, April 01, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's Governor on Thursday asked public sector unions to forgo pay raises to help the state close a ...
Thu, April 01, 2010
(Reuters) - The median compensation for chief executives of 200 major U.S. companies fell marginally to $6.95 million in 2009, the Wall Street ...
Wed, March 31, 2010
By Ernest Scheyder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dow Chemical Co <DOW.N> Chief Executive Andrew Liveris' total compensation jumped 16 percent for 2009, when the ...
Sun, March 28, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The departure of the head of American International Group Inc's <AIG.N> aircraft leasing unit was driven partly by U ...
Sat, March 27, 2010
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Senior executives at Lufthansa <LHAG.DE> are calling for a mediator in an ongoing pay dispute with pilots, German magazine Der Spiegel ...
Tue, March 23, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Medicare program will pay for the use of facial filling treatments in certain HIV patients with sunken cheeks and ...
Tue, March 23, 2010
By Karey Wutkowski and David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's pay czar on Tuesday clamped down on 2010 pay at five U ...
Mon, March 22, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City must pay $33 million in damages to thousands of victims of illegal strip searches conducted in city jails ...
Mon, March 22, 2010
By Karey Wutkowski and Steve Eder
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg plans to review past compensation at 419 companies ...
Sun, March 21, 2010
By Gary Graff
AUSTIN, Texas (Billboard) - Alex Chilton, who died of a heart attack Wednesday, three days before the scheduled performance of his band ...
Sat, March 20, 2010
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has taken the necessary steps to tackle its fiscal crisis and will not default on its debt obligations, the country's ...
Fri, March 19, 2010
By David Bailey
PHOENIX (Reuters) - The U.S. pay czar will slash the number of top General Motors Co executives who will receive base ...
Thu, March 18, 2010
By Steve Eder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fresh off repaying U.S. taxpayers, PNC Financial Services Group <PNC.N> said on Thursday it gave Chief ...
Thu, March 11, 2010
By Tom Bergin and Michael Erman
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - BP <BP.L> will pay $7 billion to Devon Energy <DVN.N> for assets ...
Wed, March 10, 2010
By Steve Eder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dark corner of corporate America is being thrust into the harsh glare of disclosure.
New rules are ...
Wed, March 10, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will on Wednesday propose to force banks to reveal how many of their staff earn top wages, in steps that go ...
Tue, March 09, 2010
(Lansing, MI - WHTC News)If a Detroit area state lawmaker has his way, the pay of two local school administrators could be affected.
Republican ...
Fri, March 05, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors <GM.UL> will pay Stephen Girsky, recently appointed vice chairman in charge of corporate strategy and business development, around ...
Fri, March 05, 2010
By Nick Zieminski and Scott Malone
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co <GE.N> Chairman and Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt declined a bonus ...
Fri, March 05, 2010
By Martinne Geller
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co <KO.N>, the world's largest soft drink maker, said it awarded Chairman and Chief Executive ...
Fri, March 05, 2010
By Tom Bergin
LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executive of Europe's largest oil company by production, BP Plc, enjoyed a 41 percent rise in ...
Thu, March 04, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg believes the compensation paid to Wells Fargo & Co's <WFC.N> chief executive for 2009 "raises serious ...
Tue, March 02, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - United Parcel Service <UPS.N> on Tuesday said that Chief Executive Scott Davis' total compensation was roughly flat in 2009 at ...
Tue, March 02, 2010
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will pay more than $11.7 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by ...
Mon, March 01, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc's <GS.N> board has rejected demands from shareholders that the firm investigate recent compensation awards, recoup ...
Fri, February 26, 2010
By Dan Wilchins
NEW YORK (Reuters) - For executives at Bank of America Corp <BAC.N> and Citigroup Inc, <C.N> it pays to be ...
Thu, February 25, 2010
By Karey Wutkowski and David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve expects the largest U.S. banks to make progress this year in overhauling ...
Mon, February 22, 2010
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - KeySpan Corp will pay $12 million to resolve charges it violated U.S. antitrust law through a 2006 ...
Thu, February 18, 2010
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former top UBS AG <UBSN.VX> <UBS.N.> fixed-income executive has agreed to pay $2.75 million ...
Sat, February 13, 2010
By Alan Baldwin
WHISTLER (Reuters) - Olympic luge athletes, their helmets marked by black strips of tape, paid their respects to dead Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili ...
Fri, February 12, 2010
By Deborah Charles
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Olympic athletes wore black armbands at the Opening Ceremony on Friday to pay tribute to a Georgian luge competitor ...
Thu, February 11, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc <C.N> is at no disadvantage when it comes to paying employees, the bank's chief financial officer said ...
Wed, February 10, 2010
By Paritosh Bansal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc <AIG.N> has launched a new system to determine how employees get incentive pay ...
Wed, February 10, 2010
By Steve Eder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc <GS.N>, which held down executive pay last year, has no "magic formula" for ...
Wed, February 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he doesn't begrudge the chief executives of JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs their bonuses but called their ...
Tue, February 09, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley's <MS.N> move to cut the firm's pay ratio followed prodding by large investors who questioned the ...
Tue, February 09, 2010
By Paritosh Bansal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MetLife Inc <MET.N> plans to pay American International Group Inc <AIG.N> in stock and cash for ...
Sun, February 07, 2010
By Steve Keating
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's goal is to "Own the Podium" at the Vancouver Winter Games, but $180,000 is not expected ...
Sat, February 06, 2010
By Louise Egan and Gernot Heller
IQALUIT, Canada (Reuters) - The idea of a global tax on banks to recapture bailout costs gained ground on ...
Sat, February 06, 2010
By Gernot Heller
IQALUIT, Canada (Reuters) - Group of Seven officials agree banks must contribute toward the cost of dealing with the financial crisis but ...
Wed, February 03, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pay czar on Wednesday predicted the issue of hefty bonuses for AIG <AIG.N> employees would end in ...
Tue, February 02, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp <BAC.N> has approved more than $4 billion in 2009 pay for its investment bankers and traders ...
Tue, February 02, 2010
By Glenn Somerville
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is prepared to impose fees on financial firms for as long as necessary to ensure that ...
Mon, February 01, 2010
By Susan Kelly
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Boston Scientific Corp <BSX.N> will pay $1.73 billion to Johnson and Johnson <JNJ.N> to settle three ...
Fri, January 29, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - HCA Inc said on Friday it will pay its private equity owners a $1.75 billion dividend as the hospital operator ...
Fri, January 29, 2010
By Steve Eder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Express Co <AXP.N> raised Chief Executive Kenneth Chenault's base pay by 60 percent to $2 ...
Fri, January 29, 2010
By Steve Eder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Express Co <AXP.N> raised Chief Executive Kenneth Chenault's base pay by 60 percent to $2 ...
Fri, January 29, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Express Co <AXP.N> increased the base pay of Chief Executive Kenneth Chenault to $2 million from $1.25 million ...
Thu, January 28, 2010
By Joe Rauch
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp's <BAC.N> new chief executive, Brian Moynihan, will receive a base salary ...
Mon, January 25, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc <GS.N>, in the crosshairs of the pay debate, is capping compensation at $1.6 million for ...
Mon, January 25, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc <GS.N> is capping pay for partners in the UK at $1.6 million, according to a ...
Fri, January 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several U.S. lawmakers backed the idea of giving shareholders even more say on executive compensation amid the furor over Wall Street ...
Thu, January 21, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's pay czar said on Thursday that he has about 45 days to decide whether he will exercise his ...
Thu, January 21, 2010
By Steve Eder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc <GS.N>, under fire for gold-plated pay packages, cut average pay per employee by ...
Wed, January 20, 2010
(Reuters) - The Treasury Department persuaded some big banks to pay more than market estimates to repurchase warrants issued to the government in the financial ...
Tue, January 19, 2010
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A state senator is still promising to pay $38,000 of his own money for a mistake his Senate office made ...
Tue, January 19, 2010
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss banking heavyweight Credit Suisse <CSGN.VX> says it will reduce its global bonus pool by 5 percent to pay for a ...
Fri, January 15, 2010
WAUWATOSA, Wis. (Midwest Communications) - One of Metro Milwaukee’s largest firms says it will reimburse salaried employees for most of the pay cuts they ...
Fri, January 15, 2010
By Marilyn Gerlach
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Siemens and ThyssenKrupp are set to be the first big German companies to give shareholders a vote on executive ...
Wed, January 13, 2010
By Terri Cullen
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The public flogging Wall Street's elite are taking over their fat bonuses at Wednesday's Senate banking ...
Tue, January 12, 2010
By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banks whose compensation plans encourage excessive risk-taking would have to pay more for deposit insurance under a ...
Tue, January 12, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Wall Street executives in line for fat bonuses are akin to "mad scientists" whose brilliance justifies the size of their pay ...
Tue, January 12, 2010
By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banks whose compensation plans encourage risk-taking would have to pay more for deposit insurance under a proposal ...
Fri, January 08, 2010
OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose replacing furloughs of state workers with permanent pay cuts and increased retirement contributions from workers ...
Thu, January 07, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp <BAC.N> will pay its investment bankers bonuses close to the levels of 2007, as it tries ...
Thu, January 07, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge has ordered billionaire financier Ron Perelman to pay more than $4 million to a film development company ...
Thu, January 07, 2010
(Reuters) - A former senior executive at Citigroup Inc <C.N> has decided to take legal action against the company to force it to resume ...
Wed, January 06, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp will meet on January 12 to consider proposing rules on compensation for bank employees ...
Wed, December 30, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. chicken producer Pilgrim's Pride Corp said on Wednesday it will pay $4.5 million over three years to ...
Wed, December 30, 2009
By Steve Eder and Paritosh Bansal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top executive at American International Group Inc has resigned because of pay curbs imposed ...
Tue, December 29, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Broadcom Corp <BRCM.O> said on Tuesday it will pay $160.5 million in cash to resolve an investor lawsuit accusing ...
Tue, December 29, 2009
By Brett Young
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia's latest patent strike against Apple underscores the changing dynamics of the cell phone market, with the sector ...
Mon, December 28, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley <MS.N> plans to overhaul pay plans for its top executives, deferring more of their compensation over time and ...
Mon, December 28, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc <AIG.N> is preparing to pay its departing general counsel several million dollars in severance after she ...
Wed, December 23, 2009
(Reuters) - The U.S. housing regulator has approved pay packages for the chief executives of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae <FNM.N> and Freddie ...
Wed, December 23, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc <AIG.N> investigated five executives who threatened to resign over federal pay limits, the Wall Street Journal ...
Wed, December 23, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. pay czar Kenneth Feinberg on Wednesday approved compensation plans for several executives and top-paid employees at three firms that have ...
Mon, December 21, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. pay czar Kenneth Feinberg yielded on Monday to pleas from American International Group <AIG.N> to modify terms for a ...
Thu, December 17, 2009
GREEN BAY (WTAQ) - The Brown County Board of Supervisors spent last night debating just how much control the County Executive should have in the ...
Wed, December 16, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc workers are suing the telephone operator for an estimated $1 billion in overtime payments in two class action ...
Wed, December 16, 2009
By Nick Zieminski
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of job-seekers in the finance sector would consider taking a pay cut since their job searches ...
Tue, December 15, 2009
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank Credit Suisse <CSGN.VX> said it was likely to pay a hefty $536 million to settle a U.S. probe ...
Tue, December 15, 2009
By Ernest Scheyder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Weyerhaeuser Co <WY.N> said it would convert into a real estate investment trust and pay a special ...
Mon, December 14, 2009
By Dan Wilchins
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo & Co said they were paying back funds to the U.S. government, in ...
Mon, December 14, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cuts in 2009 pay and bonuses for Citigroup's top 100 executives ordered by the Obama administration's pay czar will remain ...
Sun, December 13, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of New York Mellon Corp <BK.N> Chief Executive Robert Kelly is the front-runner to succeed retiring Bank of America ...
Fri, December 11, 2009
By Karey Wutkowski and Steve Eder
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. pay czar on Friday expanded a crackdown on pay packages at ...
Fri, December 11, 2009
By Andy Sullivan and Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats hope to pack a must-pass U.S. defense spending bill with measures to help victims ...
Thu, December 10, 2009
By Steve Eder and Karey Wutkowski
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's pay czar plans to announce on Friday his next wave ...
Tue, December 08, 2009
By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Tuesday it will pay $3.4 billion to settle a long-running lawsuit against ...
Mon, December 07, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five senior executives at American International Group <AIG.N> told the insurer last week they may quit if their compensation was ...
Fri, December 04, 2009
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic senators sought to further squeeze the health insurance industry on Friday by reducing the tax deduction ...
Fri, December 04, 2009
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs <GS.N> Chief Lloyd Blankfein is weighing plans to increase the share of compensation paid out in equity to executives in ...
Wed, December 02, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc <GS.N> is meeting with major investors in an effort to head off a possible investor backlash ...
Mon, November 30, 2009
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has ordered a retired Croatian seamstress to pay more than $5.7 million for her ...
Mon, November 30, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British Airways Plc will compensate consumers for cancellation penalties and other expenses stemming from an erroneous $40 fare offer between the United ...
Fri, November 27, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp <BAC.N>, the largest U.S. bank, amended on Friday the compensation agreements of two senior executives ...
Tue, November 24, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc <AIG.N>, the insurer that received billions of dollars in a U.S. bailout, has been authorized ...
Tue, November 24, 2009
WAUSAU (WRN) - First, he criticized the Obama White House over reporting errors in the economic stimulus package. Now, Congressman Dave Obey says if the ...
Tue, November 24, 2009
MADISON (WRN) - State officials have dropped 2 plans to cut pay for independent nurses who care for the disabled in their homes. Almost 2 ...
Mon, November 23, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc unveiled on Monday an offering that lets customers using its network for Web-surfing on laptop computers or netbooks ...
Thu, November 19, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Florida jury on Thursday ordered cigarette maker Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million in damages to a 61-year-old ex-smoker ...
Thu, November 19, 2009
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to boost Medicare payments to physicians in a move that ...
Thu, November 19, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York Times editorial slammed Goldman Sachs <GS.N> for its role in the financial crisis and said that instead ...
Wed, November 18, 2009
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors <GM.UL> should focus on making money and repaying U.S. Treasury loans before turning to public ...
Wed, November 18, 2009
MADISON (WRN) - Wisconsin companies and their workers pay 22 percent more for private health insurance than Americans as a whole. That’s according to ...
Sat, November 14, 2009
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp's <BAC.N> search for a new chief executive has been hurt by federal pay limits that played ...
Thu, November 12, 2009
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. law that awards thousands of federal employees higher pay than others because of where they ...
Thu, November 12, 2009
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's pay czar said on Thursday he is concerned that pay cuts he ordered at bailed ...
Thu, November 12, 2009
By David Lawsky
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp will pay rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc $1.25 billion to settle all outstanding legal ...
Wed, November 11, 2009
By Jim Forsyth
SEGUIN, Texas (Reuters) - General Motors Co <GM.UL> Chairman Ed Whitacre on Tuesday urged the Obama administration to give the automaker ...
Wed, November 11, 2009
By Jack Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said the South will pay "an expensive price" for firing at Pyongyang's retreating patrol boat on ...
Tue, November 10, 2009
By Ross Colvin
FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to make sure the gunman who killed 13 people in a ...
Tue, November 03, 2009
By Jon Hurdle
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Bus, subway and trolley service in Philadelphia halted on Tuesday as transit workers went on strike over wages, pensions ...
Fri, October 30, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve officials are scheduled to meet with bank executives on Monday to discuss executive pay at large financial firms, a Fed ...
Wed, October 28, 2009
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Renegotiating bonuses to American International Group employees is a "top priority," the Obama administration's pay czar said on ...
Wed, October 28, 2009
(Reuters) - Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury bailout program's special master for compensation, who cut total compensation for top earners at seven bailed-out firms last ...
Tue, October 27, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's executive pay czar said his authority should not be expanded beyond setting compensation guidelines for seven banks and ...
Tue, October 27, 2009
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The defense bill President Barack Obama will sign into law on Wednesday contains a new provision that would pay ...
Mon, October 26, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Female chief executives earned just 58 percent of what their male counterparts did in 2008, and their compensation packages were slashed ...
Mon, October 26, 2009
By Karey Wutkowski
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A top U.S. bank regulator said on Monday that there is "very real concern" that some large financial ...
Fri, October 23, 2009
By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg emphasized on Friday his ability to claw back pay at any company receiving a taxpayer ...
Thu, October 22, 2009
By Karey Wutkowski and David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. pay czar on Thursday slashed compensation for top earners at seven bailed-out companies ...
Thu, October 22, 2009
By Mark Felsenthal and Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve issued bank pay guidelines on Thursday to curb the type of ...
Wed, October 21, 2009
By Karey Wutkowski and Steve Eder
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top earners at financial and auto companies bailed out by the U.S. government ...
Tue, October 20, 2009
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposal to boost Medicare payments to doctors ran into trouble in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as ...
Tue, October 20, 2009
By Juan Lagorio and Lisa Jucca
NEW YORK/ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse <CSGN.VX> said on Tuesday it would make executives wait three-to-four years ...
Mon, October 19, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal jury in New York City ruled Exxon Mobil Corp had polluted the city's ground water and ordered the ...
Sat, October 17, 2009
CHICAGO (Reuters) - General Motors Co's bid to find an outsider to replace its chief financial officer is being complicated by pay restrictions imposed ...
Thu, October 15, 2009
By Joe Rauch and Karey Wutkowski
CHARLOTTE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp's <BAC.N> departing chief executive, Kenneth Lewis, will receive no ...
Thu, October 15, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel voted on Thursday to bar drug companies from paying generic drugmakers to delay bringing their cheaper medicines to market ...
Wed, October 14, 2009
(Reuters) - Major U.S. banks and securities firms are on track to pay employees about $140 billion in total compensation and benefits this year ...
Fri, October 09, 2009
By Steve Eder and Karey Wutkowski
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's "pay czar" played a critical role in Citigroup's ...
Thu, October 08, 2009
By Karey Wutkowski and Joe Rauch
WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top U.S. labor group on Thursday asked the Obama administration's "pay ...
Wed, October 07, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top aide to former New York Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer was hit with a $10,000 civil fine for smearing ...
Tue, October 06, 2009
(Reuters) - The Obama administration's pay czar plans to cut the cash salaries of the top employees at seven firms that have received large ...
Mon, October 05, 2009
By Tom Doggett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumers are expected to pay lower natural gas bills this winter compared with last year due to ...
Sat, October 03, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Film director Roman Polanski agreed to pay the victim in his sex crime case at least $500,000 as part of ...
Wed, September 30, 2009
By Neil Hartnell
NASSAU (Reuters) - Actor John Travolta testified in a Bahamian extortion trial on Wednesday that he was told that unless he paid ...
Wed, September 30, 2009
By Karen Pierog and Steve Eder
CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Obama administration's pay czar joked Wednesday that he might have to move ...
Tue, September 29, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boston Scientific Corp <BSX.N> will pay Johnson & Johnson <JNJ.N> $716 million to settle more than a dozen patent dispute ...
Tue, September 29, 2009
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp paid its chief executive Steve Ballmer 5.5 percent less for the last fiscal year as the world's biggest ...
Tue, September 29, 2009
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sears Holdings Corp agreed to pay a record $6.2 million to settle a lawsuit by the U ...
Tue, September 29, 2009
By Marcel Michelson
PARIS (Reuters) - BNP Paribas <BNPP.PA>, France's biggest bank by market capitalization, on Tuesday joined the rush to pay back ...
Fri, September 25, 2009
By Ilaria Polleschi
MILAN (Reuters) - The Internet is the future for experimental film-making, but the time has come to make online video art profitable ...
Fri, September 25, 2009
By Ilaria Polleschi
MILAN (Reuters Life!) - The Internet is the future for experimental film-making, but the time has come to make online video art ...
Fri, September 25, 2009
By Steve Eder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's "pay czar" said on Friday he was using formulas and data analysis to determine ...
Thu, September 24, 2009
By Kevin Drawbaugh and David Ljunggren
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - World leaders at the G20 meeting on Thursday closed in on a statement urging new restraints ...
Fri, September 18, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O> has approved a proposal to allow shareholders to vote on its executives' compensation, as U.S. corporations ...
Fri, September 18, 2009
By Alister Bull
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve plans new rules on bank pay to curb the type of excessive risk-taking that sparked the ...
Fri, September 18, 2009
(Reuters) - Pay policies for bank employees across the United States would require approval from the U.S. Federal Reserve as part of a proposal ...
Thu, September 17, 2009
By Dan Wilchins
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup <C.N> Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said on Thursday that $100 million is too much for an ...
Thu, September 17, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, England (Reuters) - Publishers of general news would find it hard to charge for their content online because too much free content is available ...
Thu, September 17, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in California is resigning to go into private practice, saying his salary is too low to let him ...
Wed, September 16, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc <C.N> plans to pay back $20 billion it owes the government when the bank sees more concrete signs ...
Wed, September 16, 2009
By Bob Tourtellotte
TORONTO (Reuters) - They say on Wall Street that big risks pay big dividends, and the same can be said of the ...
Tue, September 15, 2009
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish boxing figures paid tribute on Tuesday to Olympic medalist Darren Sutherland who was found dead at his London home.
The 27-year ...
Thu, September 10, 2009
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans enrolled in the Medicare health insurance program would be able to get screened for HIV under a draft ...
Wed, September 09, 2009
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans enrolled in the Medicare health insurance program would be able to get screened for HIV under a draft ...
Wed, September 09, 2009
By Edward Taylor
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The head of U.S. bank Goldman Sachs said on Wednesday that anger over bankers' pay was "understandable and ...
Tue, September 08, 2009
By Martin de Sa'Pinto
ZURICH (Reuters) - Global banking giant HSBC <HSBA.L> and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway <BRKa.N> should be paying ...
Wed, September 02, 2009
By Christine Kearney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S.-trained Pakistani neuroscientist who faces trial for the attempted murder of U.S. interrogators in ...
Wed, September 02, 2009
By Ransdell Pierson and Jeremy Pelofsky
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc agreed on Wednesday to plead guilty to a U.S. criminal charge ...
Wed, September 02, 2009
By Ransdell Pierson and Jeremy Pelofsky
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc agreed on Wednesday to plead guilty to a U.S. criminal charge ...
Tue, September 01, 2009
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers returning next week to work on major healthcare legislation need to focus on insurance market reforms ...
Tue, September 01, 2009
By Jon Hurdle
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia will take out a $275 million short-term loan from JPMorgan Chase to pay vendors that have gone without ...
Mon, August 31, 2009
By Karey Wutkowski
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. pay czar has begun reviewing the appropriateness of the richest pay packages proposed by firms that ...
Mon, August 31, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators warned broker-dealer firms about creating incentives that may lead their brokers to engage in questionable conduct such as recommending ...
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