Companies may still have too many heads at headquarters....

Its private-equity owner, Cerberus Capital, says it will forgo any profits on a later sale of the company if it gets federal help now....

A staggering quarterly loss pushes the company to request $13.8 billion of the $100 billion in emergency funds Treasury committed in September....

The rating agency mounts a defense of the securitization of residential mortgage-backed securities....

To weather the credit crisis and a recession, CFOs will have to unlearn much of what they thought they knew about capital structures....

The Fed's paper-buying program seems to be working. Now some major companies with less-than-stellar credit want in as well....

Companies may still have too many heads at headquarters....

The action will return pay earned by employees and agents and is aimed at discouraging departures....

The capital-hungry insurer agrees to buy a bank in order to get in on the Treasury Department's Capital Purchase Program....

It's harder for investors to compare banks' financial statements, now that IAS 39 lets them decide whether to reclassify "held for sale" assets as "held to maturity," the rating agency says....