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Clients sue Ameriprise, fired Orlando adviser
Bloomberg NewsWorking out of an Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. branch in Orlando, Christopher Coulther offered his clients a deal hard to resist: Promising a 100 percent return on Costa Rican real estate, he enticed 98 people to invest almost $12 million, a lawsuit...Tags: Sales, Colorado, SEC, American Express Company, Bank of America Corp.
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Time Warner expects $25 billion impairment charge in 4th quarter, leading to a loss for year
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Media company Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that it expects a fourth-quarter charge of $25 billion to write down the value of its cable, publishing and AOL assets, leading to a loss for the year. New York-based Time Warner said...Tags: Bankruptcy, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Lehman Brothers Holdings Incorporated, Google Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc.
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Wall Street follies
2008 marked the end of Wall Street's "Masters of the Universe" phase -- roughly three decades of head-spinning financial engineering, astronomic compensation and an intricate global web of deal-making. By year's end, New York's five largest investment...Tags: American International Group, Sales, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, Corporations, Credit Ratings
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Anniversaries
60th CHARLOTTE AND JAY CUTLER of Valley Stream celebrated their anniversary and Charlotte's 80th birthday Sept. 28 with a dinner party with family and friends at New Hunan Taste in Valley Stream. Their actual anniversary was Nov. 28. Charlotte is a...Tags: New York Stock Exchange, Trips and Vacations, World War II, Defense, Melville
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The top 10 national business stories of 2008
Tribune reporter1. Recession: The U.S. economy slid into a recession that many economists believe will be at least as bad as the early 1980s downturn and possibly the worst since the Great Depression. The U.S. unemployment rate is at heights not seen since the mid-1980s,...Tags: Corporate Crime, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, Market and Exchange, Bernard Madoff, George Bush
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Economists offer some hope for '09
No one was more eager to say good riddance to 2008 than investors. There was just about no place to hide from the financial crash that wiped out about $7 trillion of shareholders' wealth -- the gains of the previous six years -- in the Dow's worst year...Tags: New York Stock Exchange, T. Rowe Price, Business, New York Times, Consumers
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The Year In Business
The Associated PressFirst, investment bank Bear Stearns teetered near collapse, then was sold in a shotgun deal to JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a deal that valued each of Bear's shares at $10 -- roughly the same price as a New York movie ticket. The shares had traded at $154...Tags: American International Group, Corporate Crime, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, Bernard Madoff, Wells Fargo & Co.
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Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal adds 100 lawyers in New York office
Tribune reporterElliott Portnoy is betting that New York's banking institutions will make a speedy recovery from a financial crisis that has resulted in a wave of failures and scandals. The chairman of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, in his most daring move since he took...Tags: Business Institutions, Financial Markets, Investment Service, Bank of America Corp., Legal Service
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Bankruptcy boosts 'creative lawyering'
Corporate lawyers who handle the paperwork in mergers and acquisitions have been griping forever about the outsize paychecks that go to investment bankers who put the deals together. Bottom rail on top now, at least in some cases. Even as the ragged...Tags: Bankruptcy, United Air Lines, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, Morningstar Incorporated, Lehman Brothers Holdings Incorporated
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Earnings
Hollywood-based Heico, which makes certified aircraft parts, Wednesday reported record profits and sales for the quarter and year ended Oct. 31. Profits for the quarter soared 27 percent to $13.6 million, and profits for the year rose 24 percent to $48....Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Sales, Heico Corporation, Oregon, Nike Incorporated
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Encore performance
Of The Associated PressWynn Resorts Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Steve Wynn says his swanky $2.3 billion Encore casino -- which opened Monday in an economy that's battering casino, travel and other consumer companies -- is about perfecting the basics. ''Better service, nicer...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Casino and Gambling, Film Festivals, Harrah's Entertainment Incorporated, Employees
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South Florida economic oulook just as bleak for 2009
South Florida Sun-SentinelThere was one major direction that the business news took in 2008. Down. The economy fell into recession. Stocks plummeted. Investment banks failed. Commercial banks went bust. Housing had been falling in value for two years, but it managed to fall...Tags: American Airlines, Inc., Credit and Debt, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, Market and Exchange, Credit Ratings
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