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Friday, October 20, 2006

WALL STREET JOURNAL - Latest News - Study reveals link in options scandal



OregonLive.com - The scandal was first reported in March by The Wall Street Journal, which calculated the tiny odds of companies randomly making grants on the days they chose, when the stocks were at their lowest prices for the year or for the quarter. For instance

Business briefs
Herald Tribune - Investigators dug through a Wall Street Journal reporter's trash as part of a now-discredited boardroom leak probe that cost the chairwoman of computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. her job and led to criminal charges. In a first-person story on the

Disney stops endorsing junk
Pitt News - "Fat babies," Lyle Lovett once famously sang, "have no pride." And now, if Disney has anything to say about it, fat babies won't have Mickey either. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the Walt Disney Company has called a fatwa on using

Wal-Mart to Buy China Retail Chain
Associated Press - Wal-Mart plans to buy the hypermarkets from Trust-Mart, a Taiwanese company, The Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the transaction. The Financial Times, citing people close to the negotiations, said Wal-Mart had emerged as the

Kim says he regrets N. Korea nuke test
Detroit News - Officials with four commercial banks said they have stopped moving funds in and out of North Korea, The Wall Street Journal Asia reported Thursday. Rice is on a crisis mission to Asia to reinforce the sanctions. She said Thursday she would not try to

HP tells reporter security firm searched her trash
San Jose Business Journal - A Wall Street Journal reporter was told by Hewlett-Packard Co. that during its probe of boardroom leaks investigators rummaged through her garbage, checked her phone records, videotaped her, according to reports Thursday. In a first-person story in

Earnings Recaps: NYT TRB BLC DJ
MSN MoneyCentral - Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Dow Jones Newswires and other media, said Wednesday its third-quarter earnings rose due to a tax gain. Excluding that gain and a severance charge, earnings slipped to $9.4 million, or 11

Monday, October 16, 2006

WALL STREET JOURNAL - Latest News - UnitedHealth Chairman, CEO is retiring 



UnitedHealth Group Inc. said on Sunday that Chairman and chief executive William McGuire will step down, after months of questions about the timing behind his stock option grants.

Danny Pearl TV Doc May Hit the Stage 
The Journalist and the Jihadi, the new HBO documentary about the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, may be headed for the boards.

Suspect in custody not Daniel Pearl's killer 
Washington, Oct 14: Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was killed in 2002 by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and not by Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death for the killing a year later and now awaits the outcome of his appeal to the Sindh High Court.

UnitedHealth CEO Departure: Pain or Relief For Investors? 
Evelyn Rubin submits: Excerpt from our Wall Street Breakfast, a one-page summary of this morning's key market-moving and stock-moving stories: Embattled CEO To Step Down At UnitedHealth and UnitedHealth's Next Challenge Is Uncertainty [Wall Street Journal ] Summary: At the end of last year, UnitedHealth Chairman and CEO Dr.

Wall Street Journal Looks at Demon Wife Diaries 
Like Train Man Before It, blog based property now a TV series, book and manga. The Wall Street Journal has published an article about "Demon Wife Diaries" and other "Blooks" (Books based on Blogs, ie: Train Man ). Demon Wife Diaries, now a book, manga, video-game and drama (and soon to be a movie), is based on a blog by a man who was complaining online about hi "Demon Wife."

Mixed Signals 
Drink Coke, Lose Weight? October 13, 2006 The Coca-Cola Company is developing a new drink, Enviga, that it says can actually make you lose weight. Today's story in The Wall Street Journal takes an appropriately skeptical look at the science behind the idea of a calorie-burning soft drink .

International briefs 
U.S. military officials intend to charge Guantanamo Bay captive Khalid Sheikh Mohammed with the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, according to a Time magazine report.

Landmark decision for 'free speech' 
Judges in the House of Lords have overturned an earlier court ruling which had gone against the Wall Street Journal Europe.