Posts Tagged ‘gov

Investors are frustrated with the government’s latest bank bailout plan — and showed it by unloading stocks.
The major stock indexes fell more than 4 percent Tuesday, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which tumbled 382 points.
Financial stocks led the market lower, a sign of how concerned Wall Street is about the government’s ability to restore [...]

Gov. Rod Blagojevich hasn’t ruled out signing a bill creating a special election to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat, his spokesman said Monday, the first hint the embattled governor may loosen his grip on the seat.
Blagojevich was arrested last week on charges he tried to profit from his power to choose Obama’s replacement and [...]