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Floyd Norris is the chief financial correspondent of The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune. He writes a regular column on the stock market for the Times, plus a blog. In 2007, Norris was name one the nation's top 100 financial journalists by NewsBios.com.

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Off the Charts: Car Buyers Come Back, but Not in Droves

THE American love affair with cars seemed to come to a sudden end this year, when car sales became less important to the economy than at any time since the government began counting more than 40 years ago. So far, there are only limited indications of ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

High & Low Finance: Goodbye to the Accounting Reforms of 2002

It took just five weeks after the WorldCom accounting scandal erupted in 2002 for Congress to pass, and President George W. Bush to sign, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. That law required public companies to make sure their internal controls against fraud were ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  House Financial Services Committee,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush

Off the Charts: The Old G.M. Is Dead, but Its Shares Live On

A funny thing happened to its stock when General Motors went bankrupt. The shares did not go directly to zero, even though it appeared clear that the old shares were worthless. The new General Motors, owned by the government and a union health fund, ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, International Herald Tribune,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: General Motors,  Securities and Exchange Commission

High & Low Finance: To Rein In Pay, Rein In Wall St.

Why are financial industry paychecks so big? The answer is simple, and it is the one Willie Sutton is supposed to have offered when asked why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is.” Those who want to do something about bringing that pay ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Willie Sutton,  Steve Jobs,  Bill Gates

Off the Charts: By Some Reliable Measures, the Global Recession Is Over

The worldwide recession appears to have ended, with surveys showing manufacturing activity is on the rise nearly everywhere. “It is the emerging markets that are leading, with the U.S. following and Europe lagging,” said Chris Williamson, the chief ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

High & Low Finance: Weak Dollar? Not So Much in China

There is renewed talk about the weak dollar. But don’t believe it. In February, the dollar hit a high against most currencies amid fears of worldwide recession and a desire for the safety of American investments. It was then worth 80 euro cents, and 6.8 ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Central Bank,  Jean-Claude Trichet,  Timothy F. Geithner,  Barack Obama,  David Barboza

Off the Charts: The Divided States of Health Care Coverage

Where do those without health insurance live? The Census Bureau sought to find that out, for the first time, in a survey taken last year and released in September. Over all, it found that 9.9 percent of children lack any health insurance, half the rate ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Census Bureau,  John McCain,  Barack Obama

High & Low Finance: When Law Obscures the Facts

The collapse of the auction-rate securities market is a largely forgotten part of the financial crisis, a disaster that was soon overwhelmed by bigger ones except for the investors who were caught up in it. The investors thought they were buying safe ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lewis A. Kaplan

The Jobs News Gets Worse

When the United States economy fell into recession at the beginning of 2008, many economists, including those at the Federal Reserve, refused to believe it was happening. They pointed to the employment numbers, which showed only mild job losses for the ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Federal Reserve

Off The Charts: Great Year, but S.&P. Closes in on its Worst Decade Ever

The decade now ending could be called the Zeroes, but for the fact that stock investors only wish they had done so well. But it is ending with a bang. The total return of the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index through the end of September was almost 17 ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Merrill Lynch

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