As he prepares for his Olympic farewell, IOC President Jacques Rogge reflects on what the games have meant to him.
Dow Chemical Chief Executive Officer Andrew N. Liveris is calling on Congress to raise taxes on millionaires -- including himself.
Opportunities are often born out of crises. Just ask Eileen Rominger, 55, chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Someone put a toxic knife in the hearts of Auburn University football fans who learned Wednesday that the landmark live oaks at Toomer's Corner have been deliberately poisoned and may not survive.
Manonamission.blogspot.com has a great collection of corporate mission statements. I recently used its search function to find examples of companies that prominently and publicly state something close to "people are our most important asset."
Stocks closed lower Tuesday, trimming some of the previous session's big gains, as optimism over corporate earnings gave way to concerns about the strength of the economic recovery.
Highway construction could come to a screeching halt this summer due to a shortage of paint.
Is the economy really getting better? It's tough to keep track of all the reports about jobs, housing and manufacturing. The daily data dump is overwhelming.
Stocks fell Monday, closing lower on one of the final trading days of a dismal year, amid global tensions and downbeat corporate news.
Stocks were mixed Monday morning as investors returned for the final few trading days of 2008.
Dow Chemical Co. said Monday it will streamline its business by cutting about 5,000 jobs, closing plants and shedding assets.
CNNMoney: Stocks set to stumbleupdated: Thu Apr 24 2008 08:45:00
Stock futures fell early Thursday as investor caution held sway amid a mixed bag of corporate results.
CNNMoney: Stocks cut lossesupdated: Thu Dec 13 2007 15:46:00
Stocks cut losses, turning mixed near the close Thursday, at the end of a tough session driven by worries about the economy after a jump in wholesale prices and the latest woes for the financial sector.
Stocks tumbled Thursday afternoon on worries about the economy, sparked by a jump in wholesale prices and the latest problems for the financial sector.
CNNMoney: Stocks pare lossesupdated: Thu Oct 25 2007 17:44:00
Stocks ended lower for the second straight session Thursday as record high oil prices in addition to lackluster earnings and economic reports fueled investors' nervousness about the direction of the economy.
CNNMoney: Stocks down on oilupdated: Thu Oct 25 2007 15:00:00
Record high oil prices took a toll on stocks once again Thursday afternoon while a string of lackluster earnings reports and mixed economic news fueled investors' nervousness about the direction of the economy.
Stocks struggled midday Thursday as a string of lackluster earnings reports, higher oil prices and mixed economic news left investors unsure about the direction of the economy.
U.S. stocks were flat at the start of trading Thursday as investors were cautious ahead of the new home sales report and, after the close, Microsoft's earnings.
Did the Petraeus report or President Bush's speech change public opinion about Iraq? CNN's Bill Schneider takes a look.
A 1967 visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison by a recruiter from Dow Chemical Co., which made napalm, sparked a bloody clash between police and protesting students and galvanized anti-war sentiment on campus.
Dow Chemical, the biggest chemical company in the United States, is considering making a bid for Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries, the Daily Telegraph newspaper said Wednesday.
Dow Chemical (DOW) ranks no. 40 on FORTUNE's list of America's largest corporations.
RATES: These are the good old days? The Fed left interest rates alone again, and whenever that happens (not moving rates up or down), it always puts a big smile on may face. (I'm pickin' and I'm grinnin'.) This isn't complicated stuff, people, but most everyone misses the very important and to me not-so-subtle point. What Ben (of the Beard) Bernanke & Co. are telling you is that in terms of the tools they have at hand, the economy is PERFECT.
The following stocks were among the most actively traded on Thursday:
With Blackstone going public, KKR doing more deals than ever, and rumors of a $50 billion buyout of Dow Chemical swirling (despite the company's denials), it seems like the story of private equity over the past few years is a constant march toward bigger and richer. Mega-buyouts of public companies like TXU and First Data have earned front-page headlines, and the number of transactions over $1 billion has exploded, going from 12 in 2002 to 80 in 2006, according to Thomson Financial.
Stocks struggled for direction Monday as investors welcomed falling oil prices and some company deals, but showed reluctance after last week's rally and the upcoming start of the earnings reporting period.
Falling oil prices failed to rev up a cautious stock market Monday afternoon, with investors reluctant to move much after last week's rally and the upcoming start of the earnings reporting period.
Blue chips gained and the broader market meandered Monday afternoon, as investors held back after last week's big run and ahead of the first batch of quarterly earnings, due later this week.
CNNMoney: Monday's moversupdated: Mon Apr 09 2007 11:37:00
Here are some of Monday's most actively traded stocks:
CNNMoney: Stocks fight higherupdated: Mon Apr 09 2007 11:14:00
Stocks struggled higher Monday afternoon as investors weighed lower oil prices, merger news and an upbeat jobs report after last week's rally and ahead of the start of the quarterly earnings reporting period.
Stocks churned in a narrow range Monday morning as investors welcomed lower oil prices, merger talk and Friday's upbeat jobs report, but held back after last week's rally.
Dow Chemical's stock surged Monday on a report that the nation's biggest chemical company may be the target of a buyout from Middle Eastern and American firms.
CNNMoney: Stocks in a struggleupdated: Mon Apr 09 2007 09:27:00
Stocks were mixed Monday morning as investors welcomed lower oil prices, merger talk and Friday's upbeat jobs report, but remained cautious after last week's big rally.
The unexpectedly strong monthly jobs reading that was released during Friday's market holiday and a report of a $50 billion bid being planned for Dow Chemical could give stocks a strong start for the week.
Renewed merger and acquisition talk around the world could lift U.S. stocks at Monday's open.
Start saying goodbye to Styrofoam containers and plastic cutlery. Since these polystyrene products are nonrecyclable and nonbiodegradable (unlike other plastics), West Coast cities are voting them ...
Here are some of the companies whose shares were active in Wednesday trading:
Stocks struggled Monday morning, as investors welcomed a $45 billion deal in the utilities sector, but held back a bit amid higher oil prices and some weakness in technology.
Stocks were mixed Monday morning, as investors eyed news that TXU will be taken private in a $45 billion cash-and-debt deal that is the largest private equity buyout in history.
Dow Chemical Co. said Thursday that fourth-quarter earnings fell as weak demand from North American makers of construction materials hurt prices and sales at its basic chemicals business.
Stocks ended Wednesday's tumultuous session little changed, with investors unwilling to make any decisive moves amid worrisome economic reports, higher oil prices and a big rally in the bond market.
Stocks recharged late in the session Wednesday, with investors gunning for a higher close for the third day in a row, as investors set aside morning worries about the economy amid strength in select sectors.
Here are some stocks that were moving in late trading Thursday:
CNNMoney: Recipe for a rallyupdated: Thu Oct 26 2006 06:59:00
Stocks aimed for a sharply higher open Thursday after a surprising jump in durable goods orders and more healthy earnings news, after the Federal Reserve left rates unchanged.
Dow Chemical ranks no. 114 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $46.3 billion in revenues, up 15.3% from the previous year. The Midland, Michigan-based company was ranked no. 104 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $4.5 billion, up 61.4% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
Dow Chemical ranks no. 36 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $46,307 million in revenues, up 15.3% from the previous year. The Midland-based company was ranked no. 34 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $4,515 million, up 61.4% from a year earlier.
If you scan the reams of "best advice" in the preceding pages, you'll notice a pattern: Many of the key advice givers are older and wiser bosses. No surprise there. It's the managers in their 50s a...
Fortune: Hall of Fameupdated: Mon Mar 07 2005 00:01:00
BEST NEW ARTIST AWARD
An "elaborate deception" has led at least two news organizations to report that Dow Chemical had accepted responsibility for the Bhopal disaster, sending the company's stock down temporarily.
India's Supreme Court has ordered the government to distribute millions of dollars in compensation still due to victims of a 1984 toxic gas leak.
You think we already live in a global economy? You ain't seen nothin' yet. Here's how Procter & Gamble recently expanded its research staff: With the help of an Internet startup named InnoCentive, ...
A solution to the 20-year-long asbestos mess may finally be in the works. As FORTUNE explained last March (see "The $200 Billion Miscarriage of Justice" on fortune.com), trial lawyers have pitted p...
My Favorite Blogs Lately there are many nights when it seems as if all of west Manhattan sleeps but me. Hot tea doesn't help, so I forgo the nightstand book to take a trip through the Net's subbase...
Fortune: Layoff Countupdated: Mon Jun 11 2001 00:01:00
Lizzie Borden was good with an ax, but even she would be no match for corporate America's vigorous hatchet-swinging this month. In May, FORTUNE 500 companies hacked 33,338 jobs, bringing the 2001 t...
STOCKS Apple Computer, Disney, Dow Chemical, General Electric, IBM, Kellogg, McDonald's, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, Oracle
Thomas O'Hara Chairman of the National Association of Investors Corporation
DOW CHEMICAL DECEIVED WOMEN ON BREAST IMPLANTS, JURY DECIDES, screamed the Aug. 19 headline on the front page of the New York Times--and if you thought to yourself, "Here we go again," you could ha...
Maybe it would have been better if Hillary had just stayed home. Look at what she forswore: her own flourishing law practice, a lucrative sideline in commodities, the large charms of Little Rock. Y...
BY THE SPRING of 1993, the small handful of companies that had once manufactured and sold silicone breast implants were in a bad way. For more than a year, they had been ensnared in a web of litiga...
As you patrol the corridors of corporate America, you hear more and more stories like the one about Gary Ellis. Everybody knew he was a fast-tracker headed for the top at Medtronic Inc., the world'...
The battle between chemical companies and environmentalists over chlorine has a new player. And he's getting jumpy.
Fortune: THE INSIDERupdated: Mon May 30 1994 00:01:00
Given the current uproar over derivatives, Insider asked Tenneco CEO Dana Mead, 58, how he knew no one was using his firm's treasury as a profit center. His reply: ''I've dug hard. I won't take tha...
Customers like companies that support good causes. So concludes a survey on corporate social responsibility conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide on behalf of Cone Communications, a marketing firm in...
Company name changing picked up last year, according to Anspach Grossman Portugal, a corporate-identity consulting firm that keeps track of such things. But there's still work to be done. As the ta...
EVERY CULTURE has folkways that horrify outsiders and even a few of the locals. In Spain it's bullfighting, in Australia it's dwarf throwing, and in the U.S. it's mowing down jobs in a recession. '...
With news that the planet's ozone shield is disappearing faster than expected, the U.S. has shaved four years off its deadline to get rid of the chemicals that are causing the deterioration. The ne...
COMPETITION/COVER STORY 36 THE NEW LOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHY The transition from film to electronic imaging seems sure to create high- stakes markets as it gives shutterbugs skills they never had before....
Is now the time to buy Dow Chemical, whose stock price was sliced in two after the war-induced spike in oil prices, and the recession, pummeled its earnings? While experts debate the question of ju...
Looking for some belt-and-suspenders stock buys? Consider Marion Merrell Dow, the $2.4 billion drug giant formed last year when Marion Laboratories merged with Dow Chemical's Merrell Dow drug unit....
Ever wish you could buy a sure thing? One complex but compelling pair of securities issued by the newly created drug company Marion Merrell Dow seems to come pretty close. The reason: If the shares...
A NEW GENERATION stands on the threshold of leadership in our society: the baby-boomers, now a long way from babyhood. The oldest among them turn 43 this year, the youngest, 25. They make up nearly...
Shearson Lehman Hutton has invented a new vehicle with its latest security package -- called an unbundled stock unit -- but a number of companies want someone else to take it out before them for it...
While a whole is often worth more than the sum of its parts, in the case of a stock, Shearson Lehman Hutton is hoping the opposite may be true. In December the firm introduced the ''unbundled stock...
Big business's near-monolithic opposition to any kind of tax increase is cracking. ''We will likely need a new tax,'' says Richard Heckert, chairman of E.I. du Pont de Nemours. How would he do it? ...
What will the weather be like in Peoria, Ill. on Feb. 14, 1992 at 3:07 p.m.? A wacky question, right? But presuming to predict stock market performance and trying to choose winning stocks four year...
The news was grim. Early Monday morning, Dec. 3, 1984, a gas used in the manufacture of pesticides leaked from a storage tank at a Union Carbide chemical plant, forming a lethal white cloud over th...
On a rolling prairie near Pueblo, Colorado, black smoke billows from the tumbled wreckage of a freight train. Two figures wearing white hard hats watch as a lone fireman edges toward an upended tan...
Fortune: Business in briefupdated: Mon Jul 20 1987 00:01:00
The McKesson Corp. annual report that landed in stockholders' mailboxes in June may be a harbinger. It substitutes pithy summaries for 12 pages of financial statements and notes. San Francisco-base...
Confused about the stock market? So are most of Wall Street's top investment strategists. They have been doing a lot of head scratching since the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 120 points dur...
THE ADS FEATURE misty-eyed college grads eager to start saving the world as employees of Dow Chemical. Dow Chemical? The Midland, Michigan, giant (1985 sales: $11.5 billion) that has been a focus o...
A growing number of investment strategists are seeing signs of a major shift in market leadership in 1986. Stocks of cyclical industries like aluminum, chemicals, and paper, they say, are going to ...
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