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...financial sector, rumors that Bank of America (BAC) might be nationalized nearly turned shares in the firm into a penny stock...
Those numbers came at the tail end of a brutal month of layoffs. This January's tally of announced cutbacks more than tripled that from the same month last year, according to worker-placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. More than 240,000 positions were slated for elimination, a figure approaching the high-water mark of the last recession, 248,000 in January 2002. (See pictures of the recession...
...answer may partly depend on Suleman. She has yet to divulge who helped her get pregnant with the octuplets. But she has hired a p.r. firm and is rumored to be weighing seven-figure offers for her first televised interview. Her publicist, Joann Killeen, told reporters, "As soon as she's able, she will tell her story, and it's an amazing story." Doctors, moms and ethicists are all ears...
...oversupply of chips, while the global economic slowdown is drastically weakening demand for the slivers of silicon that go into computers, mobile phones, portable music players and a host of other consumer electronics products. The result has been plummeting prices. According to a price index compiled by research firm iSuppli, DRAM prices have plunged 48% in the past six months. That is good news for consumers - cheaper DRAMs mean electronics makers can pack more memory into their gadgets - but it is a disaster for manufacturers. At current price levels, chipmakers have a hard time making money. Kim Nam Hyung, chief...
...senior partners of Satyam's auditors, Price Waterhouse, S. Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Taluri, have also been arrested and charged with conspiracy, among other allegations. "SEBI will mainly look into any falsifications that may have had a [stock] price impact," says Anand Prasad, a partner at Delhi-based corporate law firm Trilegal. "They will look into how shareholders and the markets may have been impacted." Depending on the findings, SEBI can impose financial penalties or seek criminal convictions in court. It's unclear how long the investigation will take...