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It’s all about jobs these days. President-elect Barack Obama says he wants to revive the economy through a job-creating public works plan on a scale unseen since the building program of the interstate highway system in the 1950s. His ideas were outlined in the weekly radio address following the Labor Department’s announcement that employers cut [...]

As the financial crisis grips a growing number of companies, corporations are increasingly interested in executives with banking and treasury experience. In fact, a Financial Week report argues that many former Wall Street exiles with expertise in credit and liquidity issues are finding homes on the other side of the table in corporate treasury. The [...]

Now, more than ever before, corporate boards are relying on Chief Financial Officers for information, regular updates, and transparency. A recent CFO.com report argues that CFOs are feeling pressure from all directions these days - not the least from their directors, who are intensifying their focus on finance. According to the report, it’s common for [...]

Job seekers face one of the most challenging job markets in more than a decade. The Labor Department recently reported that 533,000 jobs were lost in last month, pushing the total number of layoffs up to nearly 2 million through November. But it’s not all gloom and doom. The accounting industry is bucking the trend. [...]

The outlook for mighty investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley is growing bleak. Money.com reports that industry analysts have slashed their fourth-quarter expectations for the two Wall Street firms in recent weeks as the financial markets remain under severe strain. The report adds that Goldman and Morgan Stanley may be forced to writedown as [...]

The ranks of the world’s ultra rich swelled to 8 million last year as the wealthy sidestepped the brunt of the credit crunch. According to the 2008 World Wealth Report compiled by Merrill Lynch & Co. and consulting firm Capgemini Group, the rich have been affected by the credit crisis (since their ownership of financial [...]

Although many investors are still avoiding risk of all kinds, some are eager to put money into distressed funds. Instead of a bear market, the emerging investment environment could be described as a vulture market, according to a report from Financial-Planning.com. The argument is that aggressive investors hit by market turmoil and starved for returns, [...]

Climate change is moving up the corporate agenda, and clean tech investment is reaching record levels – with $5.2 billion invested since January 2007, according to Ernst & Young. The firm says “climate change challenges are creating opportunities for next generation technologies as companies seek to respond to stakeholder expectations, current and anticipated regulation, and [...]

The current recession is an opportunity for smart companies to upgrade their talent. That’s the conclusion of The McKinsey Quarterly this month which states that downturns place companies’ talent strategies at risk…but that outcome is avoidable. “As deteriorating performance forces increasingly aggressive head count reductions, it’s easy to lose valuable contributors inadvertently, damage morale or [...]