Oct 31 Former Enron Chief Financial Officer Indicted on 78 Counts A federal grand jury in Houston on Thursday indicted former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts, alleging he organized complex financial deals to inflate the energy-trading company's revenues and defraud its investors. Continue reading
Oct 31 SEC Orders Probe Into Audit Oversight Chief’s Appointment Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt on Thursday asked the agency's inspector general to investigate William Webster's selection to head a new audit oversight panel. Continue reading
Oct 24 Watch Update: On the Waterfront Spencer Michels updates the dock workers story. Continue watching
Oct 17 Watch Market Moods Ray Suarez assesses Wall Street's mood swings with Gretchen Morgenson, financial writer and columnist for The New York Times. Continue watching
Oct 10 Watch Profits and Principles Jeffrey Kaye looks at two companies in Southern California that are trying to prove that the garment business can make a profit without exploiting their workers. Continue watching
Oct 09 West Coast Ports to Reopen Following Court Order As 29 major ports on the West Coast prepared to reopen Wednesday, workers and shipping companies faced what they said would be the unwieldy process of unloading billions of dollars worth of idle cargo. Continue reading
Oct 08 President Bush Seeks Court Order to End Port Lockout President Bush announced Tuesday he would seek a court order to end a ten-day work stoppage at 29 West Coast ports -- a dispute he says is costing the U.S. economy as much as $1 billion a day. Continue reading
Oct 08 Watch On the Waterfront President Bush obtains a court injunction to end the work stoppage at 29 West Coast ports, becoming the first president to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act in a quarter century. Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch Unemployment Update Ray Suarez discusses the unexpected improvement in the unemployment rate with two economics experts. Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch On the Waterfront: Shutting Down West Coast Docks West Coast shipping lines and striking dock workers have resumed contract talks under federal mediation, but the economic effects of the labor dispute are already being felt nationwide. Continue watching