$8.5 billion ain't what it used to be
Back in June, it looked like Bank of America had a rare win on its hands: a proposed settlement with trustee Bank of New York to the tune of $8.5 billion, meant to restore the damage done by faulty mortgage-backed securities financed by BofA's Countrywide division. Come October, the settlement fell apart because investors (among many other vocal groups, too) didn't feel the figure was high enough. $8.5 billion, not enough money? Yikes. That's a scary indicator for banking in general, but also for BofA considering it is more than the institution made in the last four years combined. The collapsed deal is another low-point in a rough year for the bank and CEO Brian Moynihan. At least he axed those $5 debit card fees.
85億美元都不夠花了
2011年6月，美國銀行(Bank of America)眼看就要取得一場罕見的勝利：它計劃以大約85億美元的資金，與受托人美國紐約銀行(Bank of New York)達成和解，旨在挽回由美國銀行子公司Countrywide提供資金的不良抵押證券所造成的損失。然而到10月份，因為投資人(以及其他眾多意見團體)認為85億美元不足以解決問題，導致和解最終破裂。難道85億美元還不夠多嗎?沒錯!總的看來，85億美元對銀行業(yè)來說是一個驚人的數(shù)字，而考慮到85億美元超過了美國銀行過去四年盈利的總和，這一數(shù)字著實令人吃驚。美國銀行和CEO布賴恩·莫伊尼漢2011年流年不利，而這次和解破裂則意味著又一低谷，但至少布賴恩還是做出了取消5美元借記卡費用的決定。
The hottest CEOs are very, very young
Facebook. Twitter. Groupon. Zynga. LinkedIn. Yelp. The list keeps growing, but the ages don't. Mark Zuckerberg (impending Facebook IPO: shooting for a $100 billion valuation), no longer a new name to anyone, is still only 27. Andrew Mason, CEO of Groupon (which raised $700 million for its IPO), is 27 as well. Zynga, which went public in December, is helmed by Mark Pincus, who even at 45 is on the young side for what was, until recently, the prototypical American blue-chip company CEO. (Think Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway, 82, ex-Ford CEO Alan Mulally, 66, or ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, 60.) Let's face it: the biggest, buzziest business news is continually coming from companies that are helmed by people who listened to Green Day in middle school.
商界當紅炸子雞都是小年輕
Facebook、Twitter、團購網(wǎng)站Groupon、社交游戲公司Zynga、商務社交網(wǎng)絡LinkedIn和點評網(wǎng)站Yelp都是如今炙手可熱的科技公司，而且這份名單還在不斷擴容，但這些公司掌門人的年齡卻沒有呈現(xiàn)上升的趨勢：馬克·扎克伯克(Facebook即將進行首次公開募股：估值有望達到1,000億美元)不再是個籍籍無名的名字，而他2011年只有27歲;Groupon的CEO安德魯·梅森(首次公開募股籌資7億美元)2011 年也是27歲;Zynga公司于2011年12月上市，馬克·平卡斯是這家典型的美國藍籌公司的CEO。雖然他已經(jīng)45歲，仍然是較為年輕的CEO。【想想吧：美國保險公司伯克希爾·哈撒韋公司(Berkshire Hathaway)的沃倫·巴菲特已是82歲高齡、福特公司(Ford)前CEO艾倫·穆拉利已經(jīng)66歲了，埃克森美孚公司(ExxonMobil)CEO雷克斯·蒂爾納森也60歲了?！棵鎸ΜF(xiàn)實吧，如今商界的重磅新聞都是來源于這些新生力量，而他們的掌門人都是些聽著綠日樂隊(Green Day)的歌曲長大的年輕人。
Back in June, it looked like Bank of America had a rare win on its hands: a proposed settlement with trustee Bank of New York to the tune of $8.5 billion, meant to restore the damage done by faulty mortgage-backed securities financed by BofA's Countrywide division. Come October, the settlement fell apart because investors (among many other vocal groups, too) didn't feel the figure was high enough. $8.5 billion, not enough money? Yikes. That's a scary indicator for banking in general, but also for BofA considering it is more than the institution made in the last four years combined. The collapsed deal is another low-point in a rough year for the bank and CEO Brian Moynihan. At least he axed those $5 debit card fees.
85億美元都不夠花了
2011年6月，美國銀行(Bank of America)眼看就要取得一場罕見的勝利：它計劃以大約85億美元的資金，與受托人美國紐約銀行(Bank of New York)達成和解，旨在挽回由美國銀行子公司Countrywide提供資金的不良抵押證券所造成的損失。然而到10月份，因為投資人(以及其他眾多意見團體)認為85億美元不足以解決問題，導致和解最終破裂。難道85億美元還不夠多嗎?沒錯!總的看來，85億美元對銀行業(yè)來說是一個驚人的數(shù)字，而考慮到85億美元超過了美國銀行過去四年盈利的總和，這一數(shù)字著實令人吃驚。美國銀行和CEO布賴恩·莫伊尼漢2011年流年不利，而這次和解破裂則意味著又一低谷，但至少布賴恩還是做出了取消5美元借記卡費用的決定。
The hottest CEOs are very, very young
Facebook. Twitter. Groupon. Zynga. LinkedIn. Yelp. The list keeps growing, but the ages don't. Mark Zuckerberg (impending Facebook IPO: shooting for a $100 billion valuation), no longer a new name to anyone, is still only 27. Andrew Mason, CEO of Groupon (which raised $700 million for its IPO), is 27 as well. Zynga, which went public in December, is helmed by Mark Pincus, who even at 45 is on the young side for what was, until recently, the prototypical American blue-chip company CEO. (Think Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway, 82, ex-Ford CEO Alan Mulally, 66, or ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, 60.) Let's face it: the biggest, buzziest business news is continually coming from companies that are helmed by people who listened to Green Day in middle school.
商界當紅炸子雞都是小年輕
Facebook、Twitter、團購網(wǎng)站Groupon、社交游戲公司Zynga、商務社交網(wǎng)絡LinkedIn和點評網(wǎng)站Yelp都是如今炙手可熱的科技公司，而且這份名單還在不斷擴容，但這些公司掌門人的年齡卻沒有呈現(xiàn)上升的趨勢：馬克·扎克伯克(Facebook即將進行首次公開募股：估值有望達到1,000億美元)不再是個籍籍無名的名字，而他2011年只有27歲;Groupon的CEO安德魯·梅森(首次公開募股籌資7億美元)2011 年也是27歲;Zynga公司于2011年12月上市，馬克·平卡斯是這家典型的美國藍籌公司的CEO。雖然他已經(jīng)45歲，仍然是較為年輕的CEO。【想想吧：美國保險公司伯克希爾·哈撒韋公司(Berkshire Hathaway)的沃倫·巴菲特已是82歲高齡、福特公司(Ford)前CEO艾倫·穆拉利已經(jīng)66歲了，埃克森美孚公司(ExxonMobil)CEO雷克斯·蒂爾納森也60歲了?！棵鎸ΜF(xiàn)實吧，如今商界的重磅新聞都是來源于這些新生力量，而他們的掌門人都是些聽著綠日樂隊(Green Day)的歌曲長大的年輕人。