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Washington Mutual made headlines when it announced that the board had finally ousted ex-CEO Kerry Killinger, instead hiring Alan Fishman, currently chairman of New York commercial mortgage broker... Read more...
Thanks to Merrill Lynch's John Thain (fairly or not), people tend to be skeptical when they hear from CEOs that their bank's capital ratios look good. So what should one think of rumor-battered Read more...
The board of Washington Mutual is getting busy, as it should. It certainly doesn't want to be seen as a done-nothing sort of board that fiddled while the company burned. It... Read more...
We've seen a lot of high profile CEO lose their jobs. Stanley O'Neal. Chuck Prince. Jimmy Cayne. But at least one MarketWatch commentator thinks at least two other fairly big name CEOs ought to be... Read more...
There was a lot of competition for the title of worst CEO of the year, given annually by a columnist for MarketWatch. The contenders included a lot of financial execs, notably Charles Prince of... Read more...