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Shoppers enter exit a Bed Bath & Beyond store Monday, May 29, 2023, in Glendale, Colo. The big-box chain is staging store closing sales at its 360 locations after filing for bankruptcy in late April 2023. An Associated Press analysis found the number of publicly-traded “zombie” companies — those so laden with debt they're struggling to pay even the interest on their loans — has soared to nearly 7,000 around the world, including 2,000 in the United States. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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Zombies: Ranks of world's most debt-hobbled companies are soaring, and not all will survive
By BERNARD CONDON - Associated Press
Fri,06/07/24-12:22AM , 153 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good.
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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 23, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

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Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions
By BERNARD CONDON - Associated Press
Thu,04/25/24-11:05PM , 68 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable.
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AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on Donald Trump's penalty in his civil fraud trial.

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Trump avoids 'corporate death penalty' in civil fraud case, but his business will still get slammed
By BERNARD CONDON - Associated Press
Fri,02/16/24-11:03PM , 79 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump won’t face the corporate death penalty after all.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump, with lawyers Christopher Kise and Alina Habba, attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Within days, Trump could potentially have his sprawling real estate business empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders, adding him to a short list of scam marketers, con artists and others who have been hit with the ultimate punishment for violating New York’s powerful anti-fraud law. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Key points from AP analysis of Trump's New York civil fraud case
By BERNARD CONDON - Associated Press
Mon,01/29/24-12:32AM , 63 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump could potentially have his real estate empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders in violation of New York’s powerful anti-fraud law.
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