financial markets
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MedImmune leaders say the company is at a key point in developing drugs for AstraZeneca and has grown despite fears its acquisition would hurt Maryland. - Orioles center fielder Adam Jones will ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor on Friday.
- No one confirms 'incredible' news about New York Stock Exchange before airing it.
- As much of the Baltimore region shut down Monday, some businesses made sure they could stay open — come hurricane and high water.
- The owner-operator of a cosmetics company in Beltsville pleaded guilty Thursday to income tax evasion, prosecutors said.
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- Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill could face a Supreme Court test similar to the Affordable Care Act
- Baltimore-based Legg Mason is losing a CEO, but what's next?
- Mark R. Fetting to step down as chairman and CEO of Legg Mason, possibly setting the stage for sale of some of the company's affiliates
- British seem wary of hosting Olympic Games as security and traffic concerns rise
- You're likely part of the largest financial scandal in the world today if you have adjustable rate mortgage or a private student loan.
- SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro is meeting stiff resistance to an attempt to further regulate money market funds.
- Maryland brokers and advisors say Facebook IPO sours investors on the stock market.
- Baltimore County's Randallstown High School unveils stock exchange classroom to teach fiscal responsibility
- In Maryland and across the country, the baby boomer generation and other older Americans are drowning in debt, many of them because they have no choice, according to credit counselors, elder law attorneys and economists.
- In Maryland and across the country, the baby boomer generation and other older Americans are drowning in debt, many of them because they have no choice, according to credit counselors, elder law attorneys and economists.
- Leaders meeting for the G8 summit should remember the world's poor
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- Credit unions: Financial cooperatives in Maryland and elsewhere need the authority to lend more money
- Baltimore's Millennial Media founded in 2006, now dominant in mobile ad market
- Workers' confidence about their retirement is at a near-record low. Fewer are salting away money for their later years and the majority have less than $25,000 in savings and investments.
- Constellation Energy Group, Baltimore's last Fortune 500 company, also settled a federal investigation into market manipulation as Chicago-based Exelon Corp. closed its $7.9 billion takeover on Monday.
- Morici column oversimplifies President Obama's understanding of the causes of the financial crisis
- Santorum may have mischaracterized the president's religious views, but he's right that something like theology drives his policy decisions.
- Thankful Paws, a food pantry for pets, offers pet owners stressed by unemployment, impending eviction and other aspects of the down-turned economy, assistance that could make a difference.
- New regulation that requires workers to get fee information is due to take effect this year, although it might be delayed.
- Jonah Goldberg says the Senate leader, who once railed against recess appointments, supports President Obama in the worst recess appointment of all
- Banking consultant Anita G. Newcomb says new regulation such as that required by the Dodd-Frank financial reform law will make it difficult for smaller banks to survive without merger partners.
- Perryville audit says town has $1.3 million surplus at end of fiscal year 2012
- After a brutal third quarter in which the United States saw an unprecedented downgrade of its credit, many weary investors remain on the sidelines.
- Economist Anirban Basu says we can stimulate the U.S. economy at no cost to government by offering multinational companies tax incentives to reinvest here
- Investors traditionally have approached bear markets with an eye for bargains. But market volatility has dampened the enthusiasm of many.
- Two economists define the "this-time-is-different" syndrome as the insistence that some combination of factors renders the previous laws of investing null and void
- Uncertainty continues to hover over the economy, and investors may continue to see outsized, unpredictable market fluctuations.
- Instead of showing a photo of stock traders in expensive suits show photo of stock exchange janitor who might lose his job.
- While it appears now that Congress has a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling, credit unions weren't taking any chances.
- Even a state like Maryland, with its AAA bond rating, could see its borrowing costs increase if the federal government fails to raise the debt ceiling.
- While politicians in Washington draw lines in the sand and refuse to compromise on raising the debt ceiling, small investors worry what a stalemate might mean to their life savings.
- Robert G. Wilmers, M&T Bank Corp.'s chairman and chief executive officer, has been leading the Buffalo, N.Y. bank's shopping spree in Maryland.
- Democrats and Republicans are spending too much time arguing about who cause our federal budget deficit and not enough doing the obvious things to fix it.
- Legg Mason Inc. has bounced back from the worst of the financial crisis. Yet one key measure stands in the way of a full recovery: Clients continue to pull money from Legg Mason's mutual funds even as the market rebounds and shell-shocked investors regain their footing.
