Tag: CEO

July 19, 2022

Stocks are making another run at rising on Wall Street Tuesday as more reports pour in on how much profit companies made during the spring. The S&P 500 was 1.2% higher in early trading, a day after an early 1% […]

October 19, 2017

American Express Co. (AXP – Get Report) CEO Kenneth Chenault, who earned investor Warren Buffett’s admiration for steering the lender through the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the 2008 financial crisis, is stepping down after 16 years in charge. Chenault, […]

September 26, 2017

Equifax, the consumer-data giant that was targeted in a hack that exposed the personal data of nearly half the U.S. population, said its CEO is out effective immediately. Richard Smith will “retire” as Chairman of the Board and CEO effective […]

January 28, 2016

Apple just reported record profits, but it’s come with a huge warning about the economy. “We’re seeing extreme conditions unlike anything we have experienced before just about everywhere we look,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said on a call Tuesday evening […]

December 3, 2015

More and more of them believe 2016 will be another ho-hum year for the U.S. economy, according to recent surveys by the Business Roundtable and PwC. As a result, CEOs aren’t planning to spend much more next year. That’s not […]

November 13, 2015

The Harvard Business Review recently launched its yearly ranking of the world’s best-performing CEOs. The ranking is created by looking at three key financial variables: the change in market capitalisation a CEO has overseen, the country-adjusted total shareholder return, and […]

November 11, 2015

Chief executives at European banks are getting a rough deal compared to their American counterparts, according to new research published in the Financial Times. The research, by PriceWaterhouseCooper and commissioned by the FT, shows that on average, chief executives in […]

October 22, 2015

The boss of struggling department store Debenhams is leaving after 5 years in the job, bowing to pressure from investors. Debenhams announced today that Michael Sharp has told the board to start looking for a successor, as we will leave […]