Andersen asks judge to toss out verdict
Lawyers for Andersen on Tuesday asked a federal court judge in Houston to set aside the firm's conviction on a charge of obstruction of justice, arguing that jurors reached a...
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Proud legacy diluted, but will endure
Taking the steep escalator up from the lobby of the Andersen accounting firm's Chicago headquarters recently, former partner Susan Gallagher glanced to the left into the offices of the once-bustling...
FOOD FIGHT FOR THE FDA
Scientists proclaiming the safety of genetically engineered crops and consumer activists complaining of lax oversight squared off Thursday in Chicago at a U.S. Food and Drug Administration public hearing on...
BIOENGINEERING–OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES, OR MODERN PANDORA’S BOX?
To hear Monsanto Co. tell it, scientists mixing foreign genes into seed corn are merely carrying on the work of primitive farmers who centuries ago began improving crops through selective...
HOLD THE PHONE, STATIONS SAY
They've been banned in some restaurants and theaters, accused of causing cancer and car accidents and even kicked out of the White Sox clubhouse. Now comes the most crushing blow...
2 VIEWS ON SCREEN TRADING OVERSIGHT MAY BE SPOTLIGHTED BY SENATE
It's shaping up as a faceoff between the past and the future. On Thursday, the Senate Agriculture Committee has scheduled hearings to examine the impact of electronic trading on the...
CBOT, EUREX ALLIANCE ON TRACK–BUT TO WHERE?
Moments after they supposedly smoothed over their differences in negotiations last week, the Chicago Board of Trade and the Frankfurt-based Eurex appeared to be spreading different stories about their planned...
MINNEAPOLIS EXCHANGE FACES A PERSISTENT FOE
Schooled by financier Saul Steinberg in the science of the hostile takeover, investor Michael Blake is becoming a bad dream for the sleepy Minneapolis Grain Exchange. After spending years on...
CBOE’S POWER GROWS FROM RIVALS’ BARREL OF OPTIONS
A simple calculation is guiding the latest strategy of the Chicago Board Options Exchange: If the CBOE lists the most attractive options now traded exclusively at competing exchanges, it will...
DRY WEATHER CLEARING UP CLOUDS AT CBOT
A weather market is starting to rain money at the Chicago Board of Trade. Through the first six months of the year, grain traders endured long, boring stretches in the...