Wall Street and Christian conscience: why I'm a shareholder activist.
My father-in-law, a Swedish Baptist missionary, did not invest in stocks on principle. As he was also the most joyous person I've known, I responded to his abstention like the woman in the dell scene of When Hatred Met Sally: "I'll have what he's having!" Maybe I; too, should...

Placement Service Agreements cheat insurance buyers: insurance buyers get short-changed at the expense of the very people supposedly representing them.
In the interests of consumers and the values of fair and open competition, the Washington Legal Foundation has called on the attorneys general and insurance departments of New York and California to investigate--and consider taking action against--two potentially damaging practices engaged in by some in the insurance brokerage industry....

Despite a tough economy, financial services offer jobs.
Like much of corporate America, the financial services industry is facing challenges. The collapse of energy trader Enron Corp. and the bankruptcy of telecommunications giant WorldCom, Inc., weakened an already declining stock market. Investors, frustrated by more than a year of stock market declines, began selling shares because of...

11 June--PeopleSoft reins in Oracle legal threat, SAP makes move. (CRM News Review).
PeopleSoft Inc has decided not to sue Oracle Corp, for now, over its attempted hostile takeover, Oracle said. The database giant said that PeopleSoft withdrew an attempt to have a restraining order entered against it. Oracle and PeopleSoft both do not want to reveal on what basis...

Switching to the dark side? -- Moving from clinical care to finance. (Careers: Special Report).
IN THIS ARTICLE Take a peek inside the world of a former hospital administrator who left for a job as a health care stock analyst working with Wall Street. Imagine a world where every new therapy that gets FDA approval is a blockbuster, a world...

Where did all the money go?
Seemed like that 1990s' bull market was just never going to stop. But it did. And it wasn't pretty for lots of folks. They lost their jobs or were suckered into putting their retirement nest egg into a 'sure thing'. Some of that wealth just seemed to vanish into...

Tilting at windmills.
Ashcroft's Approval Rating * The Five-Star Loophole * Osama's Miniskirted Niece You Say Slovakia, I Say Slovenia * Useful Idiots and Stupid White Men * Jesus as a Lefty OSAMA BIN LADEN'S NIECE, Waffa, is launching a pop singing career in London. According to London's Sunday Telegraph,...

The stock analysts; the Wall Streeters who tell you when and what to buy and sell.
The Stock Analysts Have you ever thought of calling your analyst? I mean the stock market kind, not the other kind. The one who writes the reports that your broker sends you, along with the little note that reads: "Our firm highly recommends this purchase, as noted in...

Company Watch - Rolls-Royce.
Jan 14, 2008 Rolls-Royce To Cut 2,300 Jobs. British aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce plans to cut 2,300 jobs from among its managerial, professional and clerical staff to help offset rising costs and the effect of the weak dollar. Rolls-Royce said the restructuring would have no impact on its...

Aircraft Supplier & MRO News.
Jan 14, 2008 UAE, India compete for aircraft maintenance contracts. The United Arab Emirates and India are competing to win aircraft maintenance work, demonstrating how growth in aviation is stimulating the global economy. Jan 7, 2008 Mitsubishi Regional Jets, Pratt & Whitney Mitsubishi...