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Regulatory

The chairman has spoken

Chris Dodd has put forward a tough financial services reform bill. Now he can get started on one that might pass.


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Editor's Note

Editor's letter: Nov. 16, 2009

Beneath the veneer of Wall Streeters beats the same heart, stirred by the same determinants of behavior.


Regulatory

Of politics and pay

How to fix executive compensation rules without breaking the companies.


Industry Insight

Before the honeymoon ends

Thinking differently about conflict resolution.


Judgment Call

The price of R&D

FAS 141(R): A new source of shareholder litigation against innovation-driven companies?



More insights

Hard Times

Back to plain vanilla?

CIT's high-growth units built up under Jeffrey Peek contributed to its collapse.


Postmortem

Side effects can include lost customers

CVS Caremark CEO Tom Ryan blind-sided analysts during the company's third-quarter conference call. The bad news: Caremark lost nearly $5 billion in contracts for 2010.


Dealmakers

Dip, dunk, deal

Recalling Photomaton, the most colorful investment made by Henry Morgenthau Sr., one of the great dealmakers of the early 20th century.


Deals

A set top in every home

Four years after entering the set-top box market with its purchase of Scientific Atlanta, Cisco plants a flag in China with its purchase of DVN.


Analysis

Stuck on the sidelines

Conservative retail lenders dominate the European banking sector. When will they be ready to deal?


View from the City

Confidence game

After months of uncertainty, private equity buyers are more confident of their valuations. But they're using little leverage.


Dealmakers

When Stanley met B&D

Analysts like the deal, which they think could ultimately lead to a spinoff of the security business down the road.


Venture Well

Turnaround twist

ConJoin Group marries outsourcing with venture investing to fix struggling portfolio companies. But will the model work?


Follow the Money

A chill from the FDIC

The regulator seems to suggest that if private equity wants to get involved in banking, it better find some healthy banks in which to invest.


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