“Anti-Wall Street protesters upstaged Morgan Stanley’s annual meeting on Tuesday, lobbing tough questions at Chairman and Chief Executive James Gorman and shouting negative comments over a bank official who was attempting to read a tally of shareholder votes.”
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“Sprint Nextel Corp. defended to shareholders its deal with Apple Inc. to buy $15.5 billion in iPhones over the next several years, saying the commitment is necessary to compete with its larger rivals and will help keep customer turnover at bay.”
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“A shareholder rebellion over executive pay rippling through the U.K. is exposing fissures inside some of the country’s biggest companies and could reverberate in boardrooms on both sides of the Atlantic.”
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“Royal Bank of Scotland’s chief executive, Stephen Hester, is not being paid enough for his work, according to some of the taxpayer-backed lender’s largest shareholders.”
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“The FBI has opened an inquiry into the multibillion-dollar trading losses at JPMorgan Chase, stepping up pressure on the bank after key U.S. agencies said they were looking into high-risk trades that first drew regulators’ attention last month.”
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“Kroger Co. which delivered strong earnings and sales growth in 2011, rewarded CEO David Dillon with a 66 percent raise.”
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“Most corporate executives aren’t on the endangered species list and probably never will be. But increasingly, their personal and professional decisions are placing them in the cross hairs of angry shareholders, opportunistic hedge funds, disgruntled employees and even their own boards of directors — making the imperious CEO far more vulnerable to personal, public and corporate missteps than ever before.”
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“Four years after the financial crisis exploded and resulted in a regulatory clampdown, bad behavior is back in corporate boardrooms and C-suites, generating embarrassing headlines and posing the threat of even more rules.”
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“JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank, will consider reclaiming incentive pay from employees including former Chief Investment Officer Ina Drew after her unit had a $2 billion trading loss, said two senior executives.”
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“Yahoo began closing ranks behind its abruptly reshuffled leadership team on Monday, but stayed mum on how it would proceed after firing its second CEO in the past eight months.”
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