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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: From Leader to Laggard in 11 Years

The American stock market has soared 64 percent since it hit bottom eight months ago. And that leaves it just where it was more than 11 years ago. The United States stock market was the world leader in the great bull market of the late 1990s, but more ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: British Airways,  Fiat,  Ford Motor Company

Volcker Criticizes Move to Change Accounting Standards

A proposal to give banking regulators authority to block accounting standards is “a terrible idea,” Paul A. Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said Monday. Mr. Volcker has been an outspoken critic of “mark-to-market” accounting ...

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

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  Federal Reserve,  Ed Perlmutter,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Securities and Exchange Commission

Off the Charts: Job Losses Both Deep and Enduring, Especially for the Young

The rise in unemployment that has occurred in the current recession has been hardest on young workers, while having a smaller effect on older workers than previous downturns. Women have been more likely than men to hold on to their jobs. The overall ...

From FLOYD NORRIS, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  National Bureau of Economic Research

Did Unemployment Really Rise?

The economic reactions over the weekend to Friday’s employment report all started from the assumption that things grew much worse in October. The unemployment rate leaped to 10.2 percent from 9.8 percent. Another 190,000 jobs vanished. Actually, none ...

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

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Car sales rise slowly, but still below normal

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, San Francisco Chronicle,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

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,  Bill Gates,  Steve Jobs

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

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