washingtonpost.com - BusinessWashington,DC,Virginia,Maryland business headlines,stock portfolio,markets,economy,mutual funds,personal finance,Dow Jones,S&P 500,NASDAQ quotes,company research tools. Federal Reserve,Bernanke,Securities and Exchange Commission.Stocks Sink After Government Bailout of AIG- September 17, 2008 Wall Street took another steep dive when trading opened today, weighed down by a poor report on housing and uncertainty over how to evaluate the federal government's overnight rescue of the American International Group insurance company.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/index_xml/~3/ipPKnBF7GfM/AR200809170070... Oil's Dramatic Price Retreat Ripples Around the World- September 17, 2008 Just two months ago, spiking petroleum prices were emboldening confrontational oil exporters such as Venezuela, Russia and Iran, fueling inflation anxiety at the Federal Reserve, raising expectations at American biofuel producers, and crimping the budgets of airlines and ordinary households alike.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/index_xml/~3/y7yY2oOfOjE/AR200809170118... McCain Able to Skirt Limits of Federal Financing- September 17, 2008 Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama put his fundraising machine on display in Beverly Hills last night, tallying more than $9 million at star-studded events that included a $28,500-per-person dinner and a private concert by Barbra Streisand.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/index_xml/~3/kSAskzSwtDo/AR200809160332... McCain Embraces Regulation After Many Years of Opposition- September 17, 2008 A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial marketplace that proponents said would result in greater economic growth.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/index_xml/~3/nZhTWOuELHY/AR200809160373... What Not to Do in a Financial Crisis: U.S. Learns From Japan- September 17, 2008 How do we avoid becoming another Japan That question has prompted U.S. officials to move aggressively in recent weeks as they seek to save the American financial system while avoiding the kinds of regulatory pitfalls that plunged Japan into economic quicksand almost two decades ago. Although the...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/index_xml/~3/Xu_gT8s18mI/AR200809160319... D.C. Tax Scam Mastermind Expanded Existing Ploy- September 17, 2008 The woman who masterminded the biggest embezzlement in D.C. government history inherited a scam running in the city's tax office and relied on a culture of mismanagement and corruption so entrenched that she escaped notice for almost 20 years.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/index_xml/~3/4e86vr2ccuw/AR200809160181... Rangel Won't Step Down as Panel Chair During Probe- September 17, 2008 Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) will not give up his powerful committee chairmanship while he is being investigated for possible ethics violations, a decision supported by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the congressman's lawyer said yesterday.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/index_xml/~3/vfwzmeSHfVY/AR200809160193... The Last Two Investment Banks Fight for Position- September 17, 2008 NEW YORK, Sept. 16 -- With one competitor in bankruptcy and two others married off to commercial banks, senior executives at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley rushed to defend the prospects for what has fast become an endangered species on Wall Street: the stand-alone investment bank.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/index_xml/~3/9xanPoGaJQo/AR200809160348... Study Links Chemical BPA to Health Problems- September 17, 2008 The first large study in humans of a chemical widely used in everyday plastics has found that people with higher levels of bisphenol A had higher rates of heart disease, diabetes and liver abnormalities, a finding that immediately became the focus of the increasingly heated debate over the safety of...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/index_xml/~3/tWddFa1Ipxg/AR200809160103... House Passes Bill To Expand Drilling, Fund Renewables- September 17, 2008 The House approved a package of energy initiatives yesterday, including measures that would allow oil drilling as close as 50 miles off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and finance the long-term development of alternative energy sources.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/business/index_xml/~3/mDAsB6p1ZJU/AR200809160121... |