At the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting, investors rejected a proposal by the Central Laborers’ Pension Fund, which called for Apple’s board of directors to establish guidelines for adopting and disclosing a written CEO s…
Stocks fell again on Wednesday, and oil prices briefly crossed the $100-a-barrel mark after violence escalated in Libya. Oil traders are spooked about the possible spread of turmoil. Tech bellwether HP’s disappointing outlook …
Having committed itself to ultralow interest rates and quantitative easing, the Fed is now caught in a double bind: Continue those policies and keep pumping money into speculative, inflation-hiking commodity bets — or end them…
Americans could see gasoline spiking 10% to 18% higher in coming weeks as a result of the unrest in the Middle East, but they’re unlikely to rocket as high as some are predicting — unless the uprisings spread to Saudi Arabia. …
It’s been more than two years since Bernie Madoff’s gigantic Ponzi scheme collapsed, but the blame game is just beginning. And many of the victims are jockeying for position, hoping to recover some money from other parties who …