Robert H Smith

Imagine you're a business student and you've been eyeing career prospects on Wall Street. But then the financial turmoil gets worse and events of the past few weeks - the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch, Washington Mutual and...

The proprosed bailout of the financial industry would help free up credit for consumers and business, economists say. But some of them also warn that the staggering $700-billion rescue plan falls short of addressing other significant problems, such as...

Eastern Savings Bank of Hunt Valley sought to calm nervous depositors yesterday after an erroneous television news report said the bank could close amid financial troubles. Though later corrected, the mistake sparked dozens of calls to the bank and...

When the line stops at General Motors' Baltimore van assembly plant Friday, some 1,100 factory workers will face new questions about their futures that go well beyond the loss of their high-paying jobs. Those who don't retire have the security of knowing...

For executives like Tom Matte, the huge U.S. trade imbalance presents a constant shell game. A senior manager for an international auto handler, Matte must find storage space for hundreds of Hondas arriving in the bellies of hulking cargo ships from...

Some investors may not like the price FPL Group Inc. has agreed to pay for Constellation Energy Group Inc., but the companies made sure that a competitor would need very deep pockets to swoop in with a sweeter offer now. Baltimore-based Constellation has...

General Motors Corp., a symbol of American industrial might a half-century ago when it became the first U.S. company to make $1 billion in a year, announced plans yesterday to cut 25,000 jobs after losing more than $1 billion in the first quarter of...

As a reporter, I get a free supply of notebooks and pens. It comes with the job. Apparently, many workers think so, too. Nearly one in five workers admitted to stealing office supplies in the past year, according to a recent survey of 1,630 U.S....

Despite the beating that business-to-business e-commerce companies took last year, Internet markets are expected to quadruple in size by 2002, according to industry analysts. But as the more than 1,000 Internet markets - or digital marketplaces that...

ANYONE WHO AGREES to run the Maryland Transit Administration is in for a hotbed of trouble. It is a complex agency where time clocks rule and service affects the everyday life for hundreds of thousands of people. When things go wrong -- and they always...