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MTA Sells Naming Rights To Brooklyn Subway Stations

nytimes.com | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York


Over the last five years, the MTA has been trying eagerly to sell the rights to the names of subway stations. On Monday, they finally succeeded. After...

Bandaged Futures?

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business


Norb Vonnegut

Supposedly "managed futures" herald the dawn of an enlightened age for investments but what the heck are they and why are corn and interest rates being uttered in the same breath?

BlackRock Faces Off Against BNY Mellon For Biggest Money Manager

Bloomberg | Christopher Condon and Sree Vidya Bhaktavatsalam | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business


May 18 (Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. are competing to become the world's biggest money manager as stock markets show...

Explaining the Lehman Culture Clash

Vicky Ward | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business


Vicky Ward

"It just made us feel that in the end the Americans just looked after themselves and shafted us," one British executive at Lehman London told me. "All this talk of 'we are one bank' had amounted to nothing."

Judge says Lehman can sell units to Barclays

AP | VINNEE TONG | Posted 10.21.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — A bankruptcy judge decided early Saturday that Lehman Brothers can sell its investment banking and trading businesses to Barclays, th...

Banks seen offering plan to restore confidence

AP | JOE BEL BRUNO and MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 10.15.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — As the outlook for Lehman Brothers dimmed Sunday, U.S. and foreign banks were pressed to create a plan aimed at inoculating the globa...

Bear Stearns Sued Over Hedge Fund Collapse

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Barclays Bank Plc (BARC.L) on Wednesday accused Bear Stearns Co Inc (BSC.N) of using two hedge funds that collapsed last summer as places to unload tr...