Entries tagged "Clinton"
Regional department store chain Dillard's Inc. keeps bleeding, and activist hedge funds Barington Capital Group LP and Clinton Group Inc. keep trying to stitch the wound. The investors appear to believe it may be self-inflicted by management and the board. ...
The Turnaround Management Association annual convention continued Wednesday with a keynote address by famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. During the 90-minute session, Woodward spoke mostly about leadership in a presidential context, from the criminality and "smallness" of the Nixon White House to the superior communication skills of President Bill Clinton to the mistakes of the current Bush administration. ...
Recently, Dealscape noted that a number of Wall Street chiefs supported Democrats in the primary season through campaign contributions, so a post about possible antitrust changes under the next administration from Deal Journal caught us by surprise....
Last week both Carl Icahn and Warren Buffett announced their picks for the upcoming presidential sweepstakes. Icahn let his selection be known through an unexpected rant against Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during an investor conference, and Buffett offered a seemingly offhand comment -- although is anything really offhand with Buffett? -- praising Obama to a journalist. But where does the rest of Wall Street stand? ...
With the Indiana and North Carolina primaries underway, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has again put Wall Street in her cross hairs in an effort to attract votes. ...
