Stock Trading - Auto Slump Pulls Down Chrysler's First Quarter
Auto Slump Pulls Down Chrysler's First Quarter
Chrysler fell under the pressures afflicting the rest of the auto industry in the first quarter as its operating profit slid 52 percent from the corresponding period a year ago.
Sholnn Freeman
Costly Gas? Roll With It.
Will gasoline prices continue to go up? You can bet on it.
Don Oldenburg
Profits, Prices Spur Oil Outrage
Exxon Mobil Corp. reported $8.4 billion in first-quarter profit yesterday, as members of Congress outraged over high gasoline prices hastened to propose measures that would boost taxes on oil firms, open new areas to drilling and provide rebates to taxpayers but would not necessarily alter prices…
Steven Mufson and Shailagh Murray
Fairfax Deal To Transfer School Land To County
The Fairfax County School Board voted unanimously last night to turn over a dozen unneeded school-owned properties to the county in return for a $150 million boost in bond funding for construction and building maintenance over the next six years.
Maria Glod
Stock Sales Scrutinized In Enron Trial
HOUSTON, April 27 — A federal prosecutor used evidence that the son of Enron Corp. founder Kenneth L. Lay bet the company's stock price would fall to poke holes in Lay's contention that short-sellers — not fraud — helped push Enron into bankruptcy protection in December 2001.
Carrie Johnson
Ex-Integral CEO Guilty of Sex Charge
Steven R. Chamberlain, a founder of Lanham-based Integral Systems Inc., pleaded guilty to a sex offense involving a minor and could face up to a year in jail, the Howard County State's Attorney's Office said in a statement yesterday.
Dina ElBoghdady
Comcast's Bundled Services Generate 1st-Quarter Profit Surge
Comcast Corp. said its first-quarter net income more than tripled, rising to $466 million, boosted by sales of bundled services to customers interested in the cable company's Internet, phone and on-demand video services.
Sara Kehaulani Goo
U.S. Says It May Have Deal in Lumber Fight
WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Canada announced a tentative agreement Thursday to settle a drawn-out and heated trade battle over softwood lumber, a major home-building component. Americans should not expect a price break from the deal when they pay for their new house.
MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Anxiety and the Ax
Andrew Card, Scott McClellan and Karl Rove. One right after the other. Quickly. Do you think the White House aides, interns and legions of speechwriters last week were biting their lips, wondering what was next? If they were next?
Amy Joyce
A Campaign To Tighten Executive Pay
After years of complaining about sky-high executive pay packages, this year shareholder activists are finally getting some traction in their efforts to do something about the issue.
Brooke A. Masters