Wall Street appeared to approve of President Obama’s nominating Ben S. Bernanke to a second term.

Several major American food companies have written to Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack, saying they may run out of sugar if import restrictions aren’t eased.

Debbie Dingell has been downsized.

At first glance, the chairmanship of American International Group is a job no sane person would want.

Sallie L. Krawcheck, who had been one of the highest ranking women on Wall Street before she left Citigroup Inc. last September, has landed on her feet at Bank of America Corp.

Not all proverbs are proverbial. Yesterday, an Apple fell far from the tree.

In a black-and-white commercial filmed last year, Daniel R. Hesse, the CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp. strolled down the middle of a carless New York City street.

Daniel H. Mudd, who lost his job last year as CEO of mortgage giant Fannie Mae when the company’s fortunes went south, has landed on his feet.

While so many others have fallen, Jamie Dimon has led his company, JPMorgan Chase, to record revenues.

The man some blame for the investments that brought Lehman Brothers Holdings down is getting a second chance to profit from those investments.

Hank Greenberg had the right to take $4.3 billion in stock from a retirement bonus plan, his attorney argued at the start of the AIG trial yesterday.

Edward E. Whitacre Jr. will take over as chairman of “the New GM” after it finishes reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The smartphone wars got more intense last week with the arrival of the touch-screen Palm Pre.

Billionaire Roger Penske, one of few Detroit auto men whose named is still golden, has a tentative deal to buy General Motors’ Saturn brand late this summer or in early fall.

The SEC has charged three former top executives of Countrywide Financial Corp. with deliberately deceiving investors

Chapter 11 proceedings for General Motors won’t go nearly as smoothly as they have for smaller, privately held Chrysler.

Xerox Corp. made history last week when CEO Anne M. Mulcahy announced she would retire and that her replacement would be Ursula M. Burns, the company’s president.

On Wall Street, Laurence D. Fink is an insider’s insider, the guy firms and countries go to when they’re in a jam.

When GM CEO Fritz Henderson raised the possibility that the automaker could vacate the Renaissance Center, it raised the threat of both real and symbolic devastation for Detroit.

Stephen Friedman’s extensive contacts and expertise made him a go-to player on Wall Street. But it was precisely that web of connections that raised conflict-of-interest issues in his latest job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.