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Top salesmen for $700 billion financial bailout set for congressional grilling

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The two top salesmen for a $700 billion financial bailout are in for a grilling by Capitol Hill lawmakers just one week after the administration officially ditched the original strategy behind the rescue.

Morgan Stanley appoints Naresh Naik as Executive Director

India Head of Asset Management named for Morgan Stanley Real Estate. Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today announced the appointment of Naresh Naik as an Executive Director and Head of Asset Management for Morgan Stanley Real Estate...

Reminder - Media Alert: Cisco Announces Upcoming Schedule of Events With the Financial Community...

Tuesday November 18, 8:00 am ET SAN JOSE CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Nov 18, 2008 -- Cisco (NasdaqGS:CSCO - News) today announced that it will participate in the following upcoming events with the financial community during the month of...

China's Baidu apologizes over medicine search results - UPDATE

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - The broadcaster drew attention to the China Anti-Cancer Net, which appeared first in Baidu's search results for the word 'cancer'. Unlike its competitors, Baidu mixes sponsored and 'natural' search results...

Ahead of the Bell: Lorillard at Morgan Stanley

Executives of cigarette maker Lorillard Inc. are scheduled to speak to investors Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference. Chief Executive Martin L. Orlowsky and Chief Financial Officer David H. Taylor...

How Well Is Fidelity Steering Through the Crisis?

Christopher Davis is a fund analyst with Morningstar and editor of Morningstar's Fidelity Fund Family Report, a monthly newsletter that offers independent guidance on the fund family and helps investors find the best Fidelity...

Crisis batters UW investments

Later this week, University of Washington regents will find out just how hard the nation's ailing economy has hit the UW -- and if a preliminary report is any indication, it appears to have hit like a $400 million sledgehammer.

ABC Learning creditors to know fate soon

Creditors including Austock Group Ltd and Australia's big banks should know within a week if they will recover any losses from their total $987 million exposures to failed childcare provider ABC Learning Centres Ltd. Receiver...

After lag, job losses hit banks across Asia

Bankers in Asia, until now largely immune to the fallout from the global financial crisis, are feeling increasingly vulnerable. On Tuesday, HSBC announced it would cut 500 jobs in Asia. And Citigroup's roughly 50,000 employees...

Smart risks for cautious investors

Emerging markets can be even more valuable than they are volatile -- and they are plenty volatile. The bear market that ruled U.S. stocks from then until October 2002 took the index down to a low of 778 on Oct. 9, 2002. The...