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Subprime Lender CEOs Defend Exec Pay

Merrill, Citi and Countrywide honchos cashed in as companies foundered

Mar 7, 08 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Banking executives who took home huge paychecks even as the subprime mortgage crisis battered their companies appeared before Congress today to defend their actions. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee grilled them about their enormous pay packages as Republicans apologized to them and questioned the premise of the hearing, the... More »

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Congress • Citigroup • executive compensation • Bank of America • Merrill Lynch • Countrywide • bonuses • Charles Prince • Angelo Mozilo • Stanley O'Neal • financial institutions • subprime crisis • House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

House Hits High Bonuses
at Strapped Companies

Fat cats to face executive pay hearing

Mar 7, 08 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - A House committee wants to know why the CEOs of three companies mired in the subprime crisis collected massive bonuses as their firms bled billions, AP reports. The targets include Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and Countrywide, all of which posted stunning losses last year. Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo and the former... More »

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Henry Waxman • Citigroup • executive compensation • Merrill Lynch • Countrywide Financial • Charles Prince • Angelo Mozilo • Stanley O'Neal • subprime crisis • House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Investors Angered as WaMu Shields Exec Bonuses

Bank's board of directors extracts subprime losses from bonus formula

Mar 5, 08 8:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Washington Mutual’s directors have decided to limit the hit its executive management team can take from the subprime credit fiasco, setting cash bonus targets that exclude costs from foreclosures and mortgage-related losses, reports the Wall Street Journal. The move angered some shareholders who’ve seen their investment shrink... More »

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executive compensation • housing market • shareholders • Washington Mutual • bonuses • WaMu • subprime crisis

Apple Shareholders Demand Say on Executive Pay

Union proposal OK'd at annual meeting

Mar 5, 08 4:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Apple shareholders have approved a motion giving them some input into executive pay levels, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. "I hope it will help me with my $1 a year salary," quipped CEO Steve Jobs after the vote at the company's annual meeting—though Jobs bags millions of... More »

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Steve Jobs • executive compensation • shareholders • Apple • salary • AFL CIO • stock options

SEC Delves Deeper Into Execs' Pay

Regulator pushes companies to reveal criteria for measuring performance

Jan 29, 08 3:28 PM CST
(Newser) - The SEC wants companies to tell shareholders how they measure an executive’s performance when calculating pay, but companies are balking, reports the Wall Street Journal. Their reticence has prompted the commission to send out a second wave of letters to some of the 350 companies it originally queried... More »

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executive compensation • earnings reports • SEC • Bristol Myers Squibb • share price

No Bonus for Bear Stearns Execs

On the eve of announcing its first quarterly loss ever, top execs pass on bonuses

Dec 19, 07 7:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Bear Stearns’ CEO and other top executives, poised to announce the company’s first quarterly loss in its 84-year history tomorrow, are expected to bypass millions of dollars in annual bonuses, an acknowledgment of the dismal year the firm had, driven down by the collapse of the subprime mortgage market... More »

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executive compensation • Bear Stearns • earnings reports • James Cayne

Bush Vows Free Trade Push

Slams executive compensation as 'unfair'

Oct 12, 07 6:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush believes many Americans have lost confidence that they can compete in the world economy and he plans to champion his free trade agenda in the final months of his presidency, he told the Wall Street Journal. Bush also criticized excessive executive compensation, saying some salaries "send a... More »

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globalization • executive compensation • Colombia • US economy • tariffs • free trade • isolationism • protectionism • Hugo Chávez • George W. Bush

Investors Clash With Yahoo CEO

Stockholders blast chief for $107M payday; nix change on company's China policy

Jun 13, 07 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investors railed yesterday against Yahoo Inc.'s management team in an unusually rowdy session of the search engine's annual shareholders' meeting. Angry investors interrogated CEO Terry Semel over his $107.5M paycheck and the company's slumping stock price, which fell 9% in the last year. A third of shareholders mutinied... More »

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China • Yahoo • stock market • Internet • human rights • executive compensation • censorship • shareholders • stocks • Terry Semel • search engine

Top Executive Salaries Soar

Gap between the CEO and the cubicle
is wider than ever

May 25, 07 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The top bananas of the corporate world are taking in more income in relation to their immediate subordinates than ever before, the Times reports. Wealth is concentrating among the business elite but staying somewhat stagnant among more middling execs—the average gap between #1 and #3 has more than tripled... More »

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wealth • executive compensation • economics • CEO • Office Depot • money • wages • income • US economy

Stocks Swing on CEO House Size

Apr 13, 07 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don't buy stock in a company whose CEO lives in a huge house, a new study says.  CEOs who move into regular-sized digs —5,600 square feet for the typical company head — see their company's stock jump an average 6% the following year. Those who go palatial... More »

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investing • stock market • executive compensation • business • stocks • finance • shares

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