Energy investment firm is owned by JP Morgan Chase. ...more

August 26, 2008

The energy investment firm proposing a gas-fired power plant on mining land north of Brooksville apparently has some heavy-duty financial backing. ...more

August 26, 2008

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley on Thursday became the latest banks to reach settlements with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and other regulators as part of an investigation into the collapse of the auction-rate securities market. ...more

August 15, 2008

A government order expired Tuesday that temporarily banned a certain kind of short-selling of the stocks of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and 17 large investment banks. ...more

August 13, 2008

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS The address shown is the property address listed by the buyer. Most of the sales took place during the past six weeks. This isn't a complete list of real estate transactions. Sales are listed by city, in ascending value. ...more

July 20, 2008

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae get the promise of government subsidy and protection to avoid the terrible pain of bankruptcy. Bear Stearns gets a government guaranteed bailout. ...more

July 20, 2008

The bank executives who promised months ago the worst of the financial crisis had passed are looking less and less credible to investors. And that could pose a problem as the industry releases what are expected to be dismal second-quarter earnings over the next few weeks. ...more

July 15, 2008

Investors bailed out of investment bank stocks Monday as concerns about the credit crisis prompted one analyst to call for Lehman Brothers Holdings to go private. ...more

July 15, 2008

Alarmed by the sharply eroding confidence in the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, the Bush administration Sunday asked Congress to approve a sweeping rescue package that would give officials the power to inject billions of federal dollars into the beleaguered companies through investments and loans. ...more

July 14, 2008

The Federal Reserve was scrambling to prevent a "contagion" from infecting the nation's financial system when it took unprecedented actions to back a Bear Stearns rescue package and provide emergency loans to big Wall Street firms. ...more

June 28, 2008