For years, companies have used stock options as a form of pay.At first, only top officers in companies got them.The value of a stock option rises or f...
In the United States, almost all companies are private in the sense that they are not government owned.A “public company“ in America is a company that...
The cost to borrow money is the interest rate.For many years, the United States central bank has used its target interest rate as a tool to fight infl...
Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance company, agreed this week to pay a fine of four hundred million dollars.The United States government will get some of...
President Bush has named Henry Paulson Junior to replace John Snow as the secretary of the Treasury.Mister Paulson is the chairman and chief executive...
Many people know that hedge funds are investments for the wealthy.But what exactly are they? A hedge fund is an investment group often organized as a ...
The oldest of America's baby boomers are sixty years old this year.Almost one-fourth of Americans alive today were born in a population explosion ...
Stocks, bonds, land -- people invest in different things and for different reasons.But all investors share the same goal.They want to get more money o...
In the past, investor Warren Buffett was known for making money, not giving it away.On June twenty-sixth, Mister Buffett changed all that when he anno...
Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of Enron, died Wednesday in Aspen, Colorado.A medical examiner said the cause was a heart attack.Ken Lay was sixty-fo...