April 24, 2009

The makers of the new “Star Trek” film sought the balance between respecting the mythology of a storied television and film franchise and not being shackled by it.

A record percentage of senior debt is on the lowest rungs of credit quality, making conditions favorable for the default rate on corporate loans and bonds to skyrocket in the near future.

MERS holds 60 million mortgages on homes in the U.S., and its name has been arising on foreclosure notices, raising questions about a process that obscures the path of mortgage ownership.

The nation’s 19 biggest banks will start learning Friday how they fared in federal examinations — and which among them will need another bailout.

A fossil fuels industry group campaigned against an idea its own scientists called irrefutable: a link between heat-trapping gases and climate change.