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Obligations Defined
Any amount which may require payment by an entity at a future time.
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Stock Losses Leave Pensions Underfunded by $400 Billion
Published January 7, 2009, 8:14 am, Washington Post
The collapse of the stock market last year left corporate pension plans at the largest companies underfunded by $409 billion, reversing a $60 billion pension surplus at the end of 2007, according to a study released today.
Pensions Underfunded by $400B
Published January 7, 2009, 7:57 am, Washington Post
Collapse of the stock market reverses a $60 billion pension surplus, according to a new study.
US-BUSINESS Summary
Published January 7, 2009, 7:53 am, Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News
Wall Street drops on jobs gloom and Intel warning
Chatham A"™s, High School Class In Dispute Over Food Sales
Published January 7, 2009, 6:59 am, The Cape Cod Chronicle
CHATHAM --- A dispute has arisen between the Chatham Athletic Association and parents of high school students over proceeds from the sale of food during last summer’s Cape Cod Baseball League all-star game.
Highways top stimulus requests
Published January 7, 2009, 6:02 am, Casper Star-Tribune
CHEYENNE -- The Wyoming Department of Transportation's 'ready-to-go' highway projects top Gov. Dave Freudenthal's list of economic stimulus requests.
SUPERVALU Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2009 Results:
Published January 7, 2009, 5:00 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
MINNEAPOLIS----SUPERVALU INC. today reported third quarter fiscal 2009 net sales of $10.2 billion and a net loss of $2.9 billion, or $13.95 per diluted share, including non-cash goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges of $3.3 billion pre-tax or $3.1 billion after-tax, or $14.57 per diluted share.
South Africa: Survey Finds Improvement in Corporate Governance
Published January 6, 2009, 11:08 pm, AllAfrica.com
Johannesburg — SIGNIFICANT efforts to strengthen financial reporting in recent years have resulted in improvements to corporate governance, the process of preparing financial reports, and the auditing of financial reports, a survey by the International Federation of Accountants reveals.
Gov"™t Projects $6.5M In Bailout Costs Through Jan.
Published January 6, 2009, 10:02 pm, The Memphis Daily News
WASHINGTON (AP) – The government estimated Tuesday that it will spend $6.5 million by the end of January in salaries and other administrative costs fo....
Hedge funds' year is worst ever, and fall may continue
Published January 6, 2009, 7:09 pm, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
The industry was down 18.5 percent by November. But the funds have lost only about half as much value as stocks.
Updated 1/6: Des Plaines extends TIF 3 life by 12 years
Published January 6, 2009, 4:08 pm, Des Plaines Times
Des Plaines Tax Increment Finance District 3 may be on its way to better health after receiving artificial respiration from the City Council.
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- Credit Crisis Explained as an Antarctic Expedition [Finance] Video: Paddy Hirsch explains how CDO's, CDS's, & MBS's work using an Antartic Expedition as an analogy.
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- Crisis explainer CDO's Collateralized Debt Obligations: Paddy Hirsch explains how CDO's work and the role they played in our current economic crisis
- Credit Default Swaps: The Next Crisis? - TIME Mar 17, 2088: The CDS market exploded over the past decade to more than $45 trillion in mid-2007, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. This is roughly twice the size of the U.S. stock market. Commercial banks are among the most active in this market, with the top 25 banks holding more than $13 trillion in credit default swaps ? where they acted as either the insured or insurer.
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- Bankruptcy: If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!With so many people in society today finding themselves in financial trouble more often, the rate of bankruptcy has been on the rise. The main purpose of bankruptcy is t...
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- Bankruptcy Laws: If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In 2005 the U.S. was implemented with new bankruptcy laws that passed congress. Before that time, filing for chapter 7 bankruptcies was an easy way out of financial obli...
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- AIG: Reuters - American International Group Inc and the U.S. government have reached an agreement to clear the insurer of its obligations on about $53.5 billion in toxic mortgage debt, the giant insurer said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
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