Photo: pingnews, Creative Commons, Flickr With Chrysler Group losing $1.5 billion in 2006, DaimlerChrysler (DCX – 82.00) spent the last several months shopping its dangling domestic appendage to anyone willing to take the flagging subsidiary off its hands. While several firms have answered the bell, Canadian auto parts maker Magna International (MGA – 83.92) stepped…
It’s a make-or-break week for monumental, historic immigration reform. What exactly that reform looks like we can’t tell you – Dem and GOP senators are still patching together a bill to can win over support from both sides of the aisles – but it’s likely to offer a road to legit status for today’s illegals…
The world's leading financial institution, Citigroup (C – $53.20), announced that it is going to direct $50 billion over the next 10 years to address global warming issues.
Congress takes a breather from its Iraq battles and turns its attention to fiscal year ’08 this week, hopefully tying up a $2.9 trillion budget resolution – a blueprint that’s used by spending committees to guide their final budgets. The Senate continues to debate FDA authorization bill (S 1082 ), this week voting on an…
As an individual interested in investing her money wisely and consciously, it is often hard to know exactly what to do. Particularly if you are not flush with cash. Many people choose socially screened mutual funds or socially screened index funds, but what if you want to make an investment in a single company you…
Photo: hobbes8calvin, Creative Commons, Flickr A wise man once said that there's a first time for everything. Apparently the old adage holds true in the automotive industry as Toyota edged out General Motors in first quarter car sales for the first time in history. Industry analysts saw it coming as early as 2005, so the…