General Motors Co (GM.N) Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra, who last year became the first woman to lead a major U.S. automaker, received $16.2 million in 2014 compensation, up 78 percent from her predecessor’s total the previous year. Most of Barra’s compensation is tied to stock awards that she cannot cash in yet. She received $4.55 million in salary and other liquid compensation for 2014, GM said in a proxy
The key thing to watch today is how the markets deal with a lack of resolution, across several fronts.
The Department of Justice said the plan to merge the two biggest U.S. cable companies would have made Comcast an “unavoidable gatekeeper” for broadband services. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said on Friday that the merger would have posed an “unacceptable risk to competition and innovation”. “Today, we move on,” Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts said in a statement.
Apple aims to ship at least 20 million Apple Watches this year, well above many analysts’ forecasts, according to supply chain sources.
After a period of relative stability in oil prices, a slew of market participants are growing increasingly upbeat on a turnaround for the commodity.
Euro zone finance ministers warned Greece on Friday that its leftist government will get no more aid until it agrees a complete economic reform plan, as Athens lurches closer to bankruptcy. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis faced a harsh morning in which euro zone ministers bemoaned talks they felt “were going nowhere” and one minister said that maybe it was time governments prepared for the plan B of a Greek
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