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...to offer assurances to global financial markets, which were sent tumbling on Wednesday with news of a new corporate accounting scandal -- WorldCom Inc.'s announcement that it had disguised $3.8 billion of expenses. Bush labeled the disclosures...
...the country took the president out of the nation's capital as more attention was focused on not just the corporate accounting scandals that have roiled the U.S. stock markets, but on the president's own past as a business executive. Part...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Still struggling with faltering budgets, the nation's governors say corporate accounting scandals that have sent the stock market plunging are further crimping their state economies. "My fear is the economic...
...await the release of second-quarter earnings results. The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 300 points. Corporate accounting scandals have spooked investors, making them mistrustful of earnings reports and outlooks for the remainder of the...
...remains relatively even, although both parties are scrambling for position amid high public concerns about corporate accounting scandals. Some think Bush's approval ratings have remained high because he led the country through a shock a year...
...Berman, head trader for Robert W. Baird & Co. in Milwaukee. Fears about earnings growth and disgust over corporate accounting scandals triggered the initial selling, but the steep declines themselves are now having as much or even greater impact...
...hopes Congress will act quickly on homeland security, new trade promotion authority and legislation to combat corporate accounting scandals. "The president hopes this week will be marked by action," Fleischer said. In the Senate, a version...
...you'll be exposed and punished. The era of low standards and false profits are over," he said. A wave of corporate accounting scandals in an election year helped propel the reforms to approval in Congress with extraordinary speed. The administration...
...been shaken by a steep slide in stock prices, widespread allegations of Wall Street misconduct and massive corporate accounting scandals. But the decision by the former star securities lawyer to depart also creates new complications for the SEC...
...shot up after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, have hovered in the high 60s, despite a sputtering economy, corporate accounting scandals involving some of his biggest campaign donors and public anxiety about his talk of war with Iraq. Daschle...