A panel discusses whether some companies will stop offering insurance because of
the Affordable Care Act, and how the act might affect hiring and workers’ hours.
A Wall Street Journal analysis reveals companies that are carrying more goodwill
on their balance sheets than the companies’ own market value—a potential clue to
future write-offs.
Big U.S.-based multinational firms added jobs much faster than the nation’s
other employers in the past two years, but nearly three-fourths of those jobs
were overseas.
Big U.S. companies have emerged from the deepest recession since World War II
more productive and more profitable, but the performance hasn’t translated into
significant gains in U.S. employment.
Fifty money managers have used Securities and Exchange Commission rules to keep
confidential their stakes in certain companies so far this year, an analysis of
securities filings shows.
El Paso CEO Douglas Foshee is in line for exit pay of $91 million following El
Paso’s sale to Kinder Morgan. It would be one of the largest ever packages for a
CEO following a merger.
Will there ever be another? Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos,
Softbank’s Masayoshi Son and Alibaba’s Jack Ma elicit comparisons to the late
Apple founder.