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Seattle Times: WaMu Strategies were Reckless

October 25, 2009 by Wall Street · Leave a Comment 

(h/t to CR ) Seattle Times has a good story regarding the WaMu's high risk strategies . Several thoughts: 1) American capitalism can be characterized by a complete lack of accountability; and 2) WTF!?! Where was the Office of Thrift Supervision? The articles leads off with a story of potential misleading public statements from Kerry Killinger while CEO of WaMu: On Sept. 10, 2007, Washington Mutual CEO Kerry Killinger stood before an audience of analysts and money managers and assu

Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein hospitalized – NIMBRUNG.NET

October 12, 2009 by Wall Street · Leave a Comment 

Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein hospitalized The Associated Press NEW YORK — Bruce Wasserstein, a prominent Wall Street dealmaker and CEO of Lazard Ltd., was hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat. Wasserstein is in serious but stable condition and is recovering, the company said in a statement late Sunday. ... Lazard's Wasserstein Hospitalized Wall Street Journal Lazard says CEO Wasserstein hospitalized Reuters Wasserstein Hospitalized With Irregular Heartbeat Bloomberg Wall Street Journal (blog

Lazard CEO Wasserstein hospitalized for irregular heartbeat; in serious but stable condition

October 12, 2009 by Wall Street · Leave a Comment 

Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein hospitalized NEW YORK ? Bruce Wasserstein, a prominent Wall Street dealmaker and CEO of Lazard Ltd., was hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat. Wasserstein is in serious but stable condition and is recovering, the company said in a statement late Sunday. Wasserstein, 61, has served as head of Lazard since 2002. He took the company [...]

YouTube Now Serving More Than a Billion Views a Day

October 10, 2009 by Wall Street · Leave a Comment 

YouTube Now Serving More Than a Billion Views a Day Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-founder of YouTube, today posted an item to the Official YouTube Blog with the criptic headline, “ Y,000,000,000uTube .” He said, “Three years ago today, Steve and I stood out in front of our offices and jokingly crowned ourselves the burger kings of media.” He added, “Today, I’m proud to say that we have been serving well over a billion views a day on YouTube.” According to comScore Video Metrix, 1

BofA shareholder Finger opposes CEO nominees

October 8, 2009 by Wall Street · Leave a Comment 

Bank of America's board is facing pressure from activist investor Jonathan Finger over nominees to replace CEO Ken Lewis.

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