Derbyshire took a significant step towards qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Benson and Hedges Cup with a six-wicket home victory over Lancashire on Thursday.
When Vikram Pandit abruptly resigned as Citigroup chief executive just a day after the bank reported third-quarter earnings, many doubted the official story that the decision to step down was his and his alone.
The approval came as the Fed also took the extraordinary step Sunday of lowering its emergency lending rate to financial institutions by a quarter-point to 3.25 percent.
The unemployment rate managed to fall to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent in July, but that puts it right back to where it was in the second quarter, meaning the job market in the U.S. is a story of one step forward, one step back.
Sony shares sagged Wednesday morning after it announced worse-than-expected losses in its fiscal third quarter and drastically cut its year-end forecast, a day after announcing that Sir Howard Stringer will step down as CEO April 1.