Dealbook: Will the Credit Crisis End the Activistsâ Run?
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All of the strategies typically employed at the behest of activist investors rely on cheap capital, but that financing is vanishing.
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Business & money: Government to get tough with bidders for Northern Rock during crisis meetings
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By putting finances before fashion, the Gap has lost its best customers. Can this company be saved?
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Not so long ago, highly leveraged companies could get loans to bail themselves out. Now they canât.
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New York Stock Exchange traders  shouting buy and sell orders -- the faces of capitalism in  action -- have been fighting off extinction as the rise of  computer market-making systems have marginalized their role.
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By Julia Kollewe in London and Renee Bonorchis in Johannesburg. Barclays, the bank that pulled out of South Africa in 1986 after protests during the apartheid era, said yesterday it was in talks to buy a majority
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Time is running out for the best deals on student loans.
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The credit crisis may be fouling up billion-dollar takeover deals, but if you're a poor African seamstress who needs a loan for a new sewing machine, you could not ask for a better borrowing market to expand your business.
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Business & money: Banks may be forced to seek huge injections of fresh capital as the credit crunch shows no sign of abataing
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Having credit card commitment issues? Go ahead, play the field.
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Get out your checkbooks. The bailout plans need you.
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Can a company that's been losing money nonstop for nearly 20 years finally have the wind at its back?
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New reforms aim to avert another Rock-style crisis as consumers and firms face worsening of credit supply
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The race for president has a hot new issue: what to do about the economy's credit crunch. And the candidates, as usual, do not agree.
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It was held up by politicians two  years ago as a model for economic revival for others in Europe.  Now England's northeast is a frontline for the impact of a  credit crisis that began in California.
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Why consumer-facing dividend-payers can keep you out of the poorhouse.
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Phillip Goldstein, manager of a small hedge fund company, likes to stretch the definition of activist investor. He's challenged the managers of closed-end funds and questioned the judgment of the U.S. markets watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission.