TOP NEWS
By CHOE SANG-HUN For Kim Jong-un, North Korea's failure to put a satellite into orbit, after drawing international condemnation over the attempt, was a $1 billion humiliation. By MARK LANDLER The president and his wife reported adjusted gross income of $789,674 in 2011 and paid just over 20 percent of it to the federal government in taxes. News Analysis By DAVID LEONHARDT After this year's election, major tax increases and spending cuts will come into effect - unless a lame-duck Congress and President Obama can agree on an alternative. By STEVEN ERLANGER Iran agreed to resume talks with six major world powers, raising hopes that it might be ready to strike a deal. By ANDY NEWMAN and NATE SCHWEBER Mayor Cory A. Booker, who saved a woman from her burning house, said that "there was a time when I didn't think we'd make it out of there." |
| Multimedia President Obama's tax returns become a political weapon | The 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. Opinion Campaign Stops By LARRY M. BARTELS Bizarrely, economic growth in the second quarter of a presidential election year appears to be especially significant in determining who wins. |
BUSINESS
By ANDREW E. KRAMER An acquisition campaign that expands Sberbank in eight Eastern European countries might seem like a banker's version of rebuilding the old Soviet bloc. DealBook By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ The bank said it earned $1.31 a share in the first quarter of 2012, compared with $1.28 a share in the same period a year ago. DealBook By BEN PROTESS Wells Fargo reported earnings of $4.2 billion, or 75 cents a share, as its loan portfolio continued to improve. DealBook By SUSANNE CRAIG Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, saw his pay fall roughly 35 percent to $12 million in 2011, when the firm's stock tumbled 46.2 percent. DealBook By STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF Google's creation of a class of nonvoting shares that will be issued for employee stock incentive plans, acquisitions and other stock sales will allow the founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, to maintain control. |
Obama's 2011 Tax Return
Timeline: Iran, the United States and a Nuclear Seesaw
Video: Booker's Press Conference
ليست هناك تعليقات:
إرسال تعليق