About a hundred city-pair contracts will trade, predicts Thomas Gros, vice president of bandwidth trading for Enron.
In May Enron plans to unveil a version of the contract at a conference in New York.
Enacted in 2002 to prevent the next Enron scandal, Sarbox has thrown sand into the gears of entrepreneurship.
Last year felt like a saturation bombing of accounting fiascos, from Enron to WorldCom to Adelphia and more.
But this was soon after the demise of Enron, and El Paso was first in line for scrutiny.
Enron's former chief executive is fighting 28 counts of fraud, conspiracy and insider trading.
The twist: she also spent time assisting former Enron investor relations head Mark Koenig .
The investor liaison in February testified that he fibbed to shareholders about Enron's finances.
The fund cautiously stayed clear of Enron-Dynegy because it wasn't sure the merger was a go.
John Hueston, the federal prosecutor, chose not to insult the intelligence of the Enron jurors.
"After Enron, late trading, subprime and Pequot, SEC promises to do better ring hollow, " Aguirre says.
"I was the typical Enron employee who thought it was the perfect company, " says Cruver.
Also unlike Enron, its officials have been generally cooperative with congressional investigators investigating Enron's spectacular flameout.
Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow takes the witness stand and buries ex-boss Jeffrey Skilling.
To keep current flowing, Nevada Power had to buy juice from companies like Enron.
Robust reported earnings growth at both Enron and WorldCom was not supported by hard cash.
Jeffrey Skilling abandoned ship to spend more time with his family, months before Enron hit bottom.
Now he wonders if executives at Enron have set themselves up for a similar fate.
The documents indicated that they knew what Enron's motivations were in engaging in these transactions.
Enron defrauded employees and investors, Tyco executed fraudulent acquisition accounting, ZZZZ Best committed forgery and theft.
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Three important lessons emerge from the media's coverage of Enron, say Dyck and Zingales.
Defense attorney Daniel Petrocelli asked if the witness had any inklings of the fate awaiting Enron.
Though, as Enron shows, that may not always be what is good for them.
The challenge, as they see it, is to remedy that before the next Enron comes along.
There were also fears that the rating agencies might downgrade Enron's debt despite the Dynegy deal.
Like many financial firms, only more so, Enron built its success upon a confidence trick.
The idea of that occurring would have been unthinkable prior to the Enron news breaking.
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The defense will argue that Fastow's thievery was the only illegal activity in Enron's history.
But the White House denies that Enron's financial situation was discussed at the meetings.
Enron crushed the retirement plans of thousands of workers who had invested heavily in the company.
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