Big Three automakers beg Congress for $25 billion - Dubuque Telegraph Herald WASHINGTON (AP) -- Detroit's Big Three automakers pleaded with a reluctant Congress Tuesday for a $25 billion lifeline to save the once-proud titans of U.S. industry, pointedly warning of a national economic catastrophe should they collapse. Millions ...
Wall Street: Dow Falls Below 8,000, S&P At 5-Year Low - WJBF.com NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street hit levels not seen since 2003, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling below the 8,000 mark, as the fate of Detroit’s Big Three automakers and the economy disheartened investors. Stocks finished at their lows of ...
US money market fund assets rise to record -iMoneyNet - Reuters NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Reuters) - U.S. money market fund assets rose by $55.6 billion in the latest week to a record high of $3.596 trillion, the Money Fund Report said on Wednesday. Taxable fund assets rose by $59.7 billion to a record $3.103 trillion ...
Ex-judge in Pa. guilty of fraud, money laundering - Contra Costa Times PITTSBURGH—A former Pennsylvania appellate judge has been convicted in Pittsburgh of lying about neck and back injuries to collect money from insurance companies. Former Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce was found guilty Wednesday by a federal ...