Fiction

Prosecutor: ‘Hocus-Pocus,’ ‘Outright Lies’ Deceived Enron Investors

Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling “lied over and over and over again” to investors and employees “through accounting tricks, fiction, hocus-pocus, trickery, misleading statements, half-truths, omissions and outright lies,” federal prosecutor Kathryn H. Ruemmler told a packed courtroom on Monday during closing arguments in the 16-week-long case that could send the two former chiefs to prison for dozens of years.

May 16, 2006

Support Elusive, But Prices Keep Making Small Gains

A writer of detective fiction might call it The Mystery of the Unsupported Bullishness. Even with the typical lower demand of a weekend added to other negative fundamental influences arguing for lower gas prices, most of the cash market continued to achieve small advances Friday.

September 8, 2003