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Obama 'threading the needle' of a crisis
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama says he is trying to "thread the needle'' between warning Americans of how dire the economic situation is and causing any panic. "I'm constantly trying to thread the needle between sounding alarmist but also......Tags: Nightline (tv program), United States, Celebrities and Bad Behavior, Economy, Business and Finance, Tom Daschle
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Time 100: World's most influential
The Swampby Mark Silva Sure, President Barack Obama made the list. But so did Michelle Obama. And Bernie Madoff, the billionaire king of Ponzi. Rush Limbaugh, too, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and... "the founders of Twitter.'' Sarah Palin's on the list.......Tags: Judith Jamison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Celebrities, Science and Technology, Richard Phillips
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Scores of accounts frozen
Tribune staff reportersHundreds, if not thousands, of bank accounts around the country have been frozen, government sources said Thursday, as investigators try to follow the money trail leading to the terrorists responsible for the attack on the World Trade Center. The...Tags: Defense, Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Government
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Bank One cuts more jobs, shores up earnings
Tribune staff reporterBank One Corp. has shed another 2,282 employees since October, the bank disclosed today, or 3 percent of its workforce. And its cost cutting is falling to the Chicago-based bank’s bottom line. The bank recorded in $765 million operating income today,...Tags: Stock Market, Layoffs and Downsizing, Economy, Business and Finance, Chicago Jobs, Texas
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Bank One unveils Disney reward card
Tribune Staff ReporterRugrats have a new reason to nag their parents for more stuff: It just might get them to Disney World. Chicago-based Bank One Corp. on Tuesday officially launched its co-branded rewards credit card with Walt Disney Co. and Visa International, the...Tags: United Air Lines, Mickey Mouse (fictional animal), Tourism and Leisure, Amusement and Theme Parks, Credit and Debt
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Daley a name to bank on
Tribune staff reporterIt was not the four years he spent as a bank executive a decade ago that won William Daley his new job as Midwest chairman of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Daley's corporate savvy, political experience and Chicago connections prompted the bank to recruit him...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bill Clinton, China, Illinois
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Executive pay jumps as companies use options
Tribune staff reporterIt's good to have options. Defying recession, the worst performance by corporate earnings since the Depression and another down year in the U.S. stock market, the chief executives at Chicago's largest companies received a double-digit raise overall...Tags: United Air Lines, Stock Options, Companies and Corporations, CDW Computer Centers Incorporated, Auto Trends
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Bank One to bounce teller fees
Tribune staff reporterSeven years after making national headlines for charging customers to talk with its tellers, Bank One Corp. is scrapping its controversial $3 teller fees here as part of a broad strategy to win back disgruntled Chicago-area customers. Bank One will...Tags: Jay Leno, Wells Fargo & Co., Illinois, Chicago Jobs, Marketing
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Company had established a plan for CEO succession
Tribune staff reporterMonday's events at McDonald's Corp. are a wake-up call for companies without second-in-command executives. Most corporate boards have contingency plans for the sudden death or disability of a chief executive, such as tapping a senior board member as...Tags: Abbott Laboratories, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Chicago, IBM
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A final shove into recession, analysts fear
The successful terrorist attack on two pre-eminent symbols of American power may be the final stroke needed, economists say, to drive the U.S. and world economies into recession. For months financial observers have warned that if American consumers...Tags: United Air Lines, Defense, Northern Trust Corporation, Wells Fargo & Co., Business Trips
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Bank One taking risk with UAL financing
Tribune staff reporterBank One Corp.'s deal to finance a big chunk of UAL Corp.'s bankruptcy reorganization plan represents a departure for the bank, which has spent much of the last two years dumping risks instead of seeking new ones. At least one credit analyst who...Tags: United Air Lines, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Economy, Business and Finance, Credit and Debt, Companies and Corporations
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Airline needs a money train
Tribune staff reporterIt was something United Airlines chief Glenn Tilton had hoped to avoid: the potentially humbling search for equity investors willing to finance the airline's exit from bankruptcy. But now that the federal government has declined yet again to guarantee...Tags: United Air Lines, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Pension and Welfare, Labor Legislation
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