March 17, 2011

The Federal Reserve is expected to give some institutions permission to raise dividends, benefiting chief executives, who usually own large amounts of company stock.

The 34-story building, with roughly 400 apartments, would comprise more than 900 modules that would be hauled to Atlantic Yards, lifted into place by crane and bolted together.

Many companies outside Japan remain uncertain, or decline to say, whether supplies of crucial components from Japan will hit air pockets.

Blue Shield’s decision did not quiet discussion in California on giving the state the ability to simply block rate increases at health insurers.

Under the plan, which begins on March 28, visitors to NYTimes.com will be able to read 20 articles a month free. The most frequent users will pay $15 for a four-week subscription; print subscribers will have unlimited access.

An executive committee of 5 (with 42 advisers) put in their 2 cents’ worth for a new Smithsonian boxed set.

The chief, Kerry Killinger, and two other executives were accused of reckless lending practices that led to the collapse of the nation’s largest savings bank.

The financial crisis that began in the United States and the nuclear crisis in Japan share a similar narrative: overconfidence born of experience led to increased risks when disaster struck.

Japan’s nuclear crisis has prompted a steady departure of business executives from Tokyo, with many heading to Osaka, Fukuoka or other cities farther from the damaged reactors.

The company said a plant in Shreveport, La., which has 800 employees and makes two pickup trucks, would be closed next week.

An aspiring novelist finds a pharmaceutical cure for writer’s block. But does he use this bounty to write more books?

The first readings from American data-collection flights over the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan show that the worst contamination has not spread beyond the 19-mile range of highest concern established by Japanese authorities.