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As lawmakers expressed outrage over how the company could collapse so quickly with so little warning, Enron sought protection from some of its creditors in Europe yesterday and allowed traders […]

Reports on the order made by the U.S. government for federal agencies to review contracts with Arthur Andersen and the Enron Corp. Doubts raised by the accusations against both companies on tax collection; Disclosure of the destruction of documents relating to Enron; Factor igniting the review order.

Reports on the focus on the government investigation of the Enron scandal on the documents destroyed by accounting firm Arthur Andersen in the U.S. Evidence heard by lawmakers regarding the issue; Distribution of copies of an electronic mail message received by Andersen employees; Refusal of former Andersen partner David B. Duncan to comment on the issue.

Reports the destruction of various documents related to energy company, Enron Corp. in the U.S. Dismissal of executive David B. Duncan from the Arthur Andersen; Involvement of the employees of Arthur Andersen in the destruction of the documents; Resignation of executive Kenneth L. Lay.

Reports on the sales of stocks made by Enron Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Kenneth L. Lay in the U.S. Reason of Lay for disposing Enron stocks; Details on the repayment of loans made by Lay; Comments of lawyer Earl J. Silbert on the issue.

Reports on the business losses of Enron Corp. Move of the company to file for bankruptcy protection; Factors contributing to the business failure; Accounting problems of the company.

Reports the disposal of stock by Kenneth L. Lay, chairman and chief executive of Enron Corp., after receipt of a warning letter on the financial problems of the company in the U.S. Investigation over the destruction of documents; Consideration of the dropout of Enron by Andersen Consulting LLP from the disclosure of off-balance-sheet debts.

Reports on the awareness of auditor Arthur Andersen of a senior Enron employee's concerns about improprieties in the accounting practices of the energy firm according to U.S. Congressional investigators. Legal guidance sought by the auditing firm about how to respond; Discussion by some senior Andersen officials of dropping Enron from their client list.

Reports on the auditing scandal at Enron Corporation in the U.S. Role of accountant David B. Duncan in the fiasco; Reaction of Enron employees to the financial practices of the firm; Impact of the problem on the stocks of the company.

Presents excerpts of conversations between Enron employees taped in 2000. Negotiations with Snohomish, Washington city government on power contract; Personal take of Jeffrey Richter from the California government; California's initial effort to cap the price of power sold in the state.

Reports on the effect of Enron company's manipulation and misconduct on the prices of electricity and natural gas in California as of March 26, 2003.

Reports on the ruling of the Federal Election Commission of the U.S. regarding the hiring of Ralph Reed, a Republican consultant, by Enron Corp.

Reports on a U.S. Senate report which has cleared Robert E. Rubin of illegality in the collapse of Enron. Significance of a telephone call made by Rubin to Peter R. Fisher, the under secretary of the Treasury after learning that Enron was close to losing its investment-grade rating; Details of the investigation of Rubin; His transfer to the role of chairman at Citigroup's executive committee after resigning as Treasury secretary; Skepticism of his actions among Democrats in Congress, including Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.).

Reports that United States Congressional investigators are examining a series of undisclosed deals between Enron and Citigroup that raise questions about whether Citigroup ignored its internal guidelines and sidestepped accounting rules. Details of the deals, including one in which Citigroup risk managers lodges strong objections about risk exposure but were ignored; Efforts of banks to structure deals in order to give clients their preferred outcome; Claim of Citigroup executives that these deals were legal and followed accounting rules.

Reports on documents released by Senator Fred D. Thompson detailing the involvement of Johnny Hayes, campaign official, on the consulting works of Enron on November 12, 2002.

Reports on the order of the U.S. Treasury Department to Enron to provide information about the deals the company did in the late 1990s involving products that originate in Iran.

Reports that a U.S. Senate panel argued that brokerage firm Merrill Lynch cut corners and compromised business practices to win more investment-banking fees from Enron. Comments of Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the panel; Testimony of G. Kelly Martin of Merrill; Scrutiny of Merrill investment bankers Schuyler Tilney and Robert Furst.; Episodes that lawmakers said showed Merrill's willingness to curry favor with Enron, including the ouster of analyst John Olson and a Nigerian barge deal.

Reports that in 1998, brokerage firm Merrill Lynch replaced a research analyst, who had angered Enron executives by rating the company's stock neutral, with an analyst who upgraded the rating. Documents that were obtained by Congressional investigators: Memo from investment bankers Rick Gordon and Schuyler Tilney on analyst John Olson; Suggestion that Merrill executives hoped to raise Enron's rating to obtain more business from Enron; Comments of Donato J. Eassey, who upgraded Enron shares.

Reports on the investigation by the U.S. Justice Department of a transaction in which Enron sold a part-interest in electricity-generating barges in Nigeria to a special-purpose entity established by Merrill Lynch. Outlook for a hearing before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Question of whether the barge deal allowed Enron to inflate its profits artificially.

Reports that officials for Citigroup and J. P. Morgan Chase, two of the largest financial institutions in the U.S., told Senators that they did not improperly help Enron disguise portions of the company's debt. Evidence that lawmakers said undermined the officials' contentions; Allegations that both banks set up entities which allowed Enron to borrow billions of dollars that it did not disclose as debt; Focus on so-called prepay deals the banks did with Enron; Evidence that the entities were controlled by the banks.

Reports that senior credit officers of Citigroup misrepresented the full nature of a 1999 transaction with Enron in the records of the deal, according to internal documents and U.S. government investigators. How bankers manipulated the record of their Enron dealings to allow the company to avoid accounting rules and hide its true financial condition; Focus of the investigation on the relationship between Enron and its bankers, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase; Details of the so-called Roosevelt transaction.

Reports on a hearing scheduled by the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to look at the role of Enron's bankers on the company's accounting deceptions.

Reports that a U.S. Senate panel investigating Enron Corp. has concluded that the company's board knew about the fraudulent accounting practices that led to the demise of the company.

Reports that officials in the U.S. White House were given an additional day to turn over information about their contacts with Enron Corp. that were subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

Reports that White House is requiring all staff member to document all their contacts with Enron Corp. Effort to avert a legal confrontation with a Senate committee that issued subpoenas seeking the information; Allegation that U.S. President George W. Bush appointed as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority an official who was recommended by Enron's former chairman Kenneth Lay; How the number of reported contracts is larger than was previously disclosed to Congress.

Focuses on the relationship between United States White House officials and Enron in 2001, in light of a document released by the administration of President George W. Bush to a Senate committee. Focus of the contacts, including Vice President Dick Cheney's national energy policy report and the California energy crisis; Decision of the Governmental Affairs Committee to issue subpoenas to the offices of the president and vice president; Comments of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and others; Details of the document.

Reports on the efforts of United States Senate Democrats in investigating the collapse of the Enron Corp. Plans to subpoena the administration of President George W. Bush about its contacts with the company, which was once highly influential politically; Consideration of the U.S. Department of Justice task force on whether to expand its inquiry to include the company's energy-trading practices; Details of the investigation.

Focuses on the trading strategies used by the Enron Corp. in California prior to its collapse. How its strategies may have been illegal; Description of a hearing before a United States Senate investigation panel concerning Enron; Denial that the company manipulated California energy prices; Details of the trading strategies.

Discusses a rule adopted by U.S. federal regulators to force electricity traders to report individual transactions in detail. Goal of preventing concealment of trades that allowed energy producers to inflate volumes and revenue; Expected testimonies of lawyer Stephen Hall and California State Senator Joseph Dunn in the Enron investigation; Impact of disclosures that Reliant Resources, Dynegy and CMS Energy used round-trip trades to artificially boost their financial results.

Reports that two U.S. Senate committees moved to investigate price manipulation in the California energy market, as lawyers prepared to hear testimony on how Enron manipulated electricity prices during the 2000-2001 California energy crisis. Release of documents that detail trading techniques used by Enron to increase prices and profits in California; Belief that the documents provide incriminating evidence; Investigation of issues raised by the Enron documents.

Examines how the Enron Corp. manipulated California's energy market after it was deregulated. How Enron's trading strategies maximized gains in California's wholesale electricity market in 2000 and 2001; Ways that Enron exploited weaknesses in the state's energy markets, according to documents released by U.S. regulators; Details of the schemes; Contention of Enron lawyers that other energy companies used similar tactics.

Examines how electricity traders at Enron drove up electricity prices during the California power crisis. Questionable techniques that contributed to power shortages, according to Enron documents; Types of strategies used by traders; Argument of California officials that Enron and other power marketers manipulated the state's market, costing consumers and utilities tens of billions of dollars in 2000 and 2001; Request for a criminal investigation by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

Reports on the documents and information introduced by U.S. Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, that showed the failure of Enron's directors to recognize the accounting problems that led to the collapse of the company.

Reports on the possibility for U.S. White House officials to face subpoenas for information on their contacts with Enron executives.

Reports that the U.S. Department of Labor is suggesting that Enron Corporation deceived the government by entering an agreement that it had no intention of honoring. Agreement by Enron to turn over control of its employee pension plans to an independent firm, the State Street Corporation; How Enron backed out of the deal at a bankruptcy hearing; Details of a letter sent to Enron by Eugene Scalia, the Labor Department's solicitor.

Reports that Senator Joseph Dunn (D-Calif.) will testify before a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on whether energy trader Enron helped manufacture California's energy crisis to increase company profits. Inquiry into whether Enron manipulated power prices in California in 2000 and 2001; Efforts of House lawmakers to improve pension safeguards in the wake of Enron's collapse; What Dunn will say to the Senate panel, according to an advance copy of his testimony.

Focuses on legislation under consideration by the U.S. Congress that is intended to protect employees' pensions. How the collapse of Enron Corporation motivated lawmakers to reform pension law; Higlights of the bill; Concern that the measure could lead companies to seek a reduction in the number of employees covered by pensions, and give larger pension benefits to highly paid executives; Outlook for passage of the legislation in the House.

Discusses the U.S. government's move to protect the interests of Enron investors and retirement-plan participants. Accusations by Labor Department officials against Enron regarding its employee investment plans; Decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to widen the investigation of the bankruptcy case; How the SEC is supporting a move by a group of creditors; The dispute over Enron's handling of retirement plans.

Reports on the efforts of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Enron Corporation's creditors to seek an independent examiner to investigate Enron's business failure.

Reports that the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has asked the U.S. Justice Department to examine whether Enron misrepresented its financial condition. How Enron obtained over $1 billion in taxpayer-backed financing and insurance for international projects; OPIC's actions, which are seen as an expansion of the federal inquiries into Enron and its former executives; Comments of OPIC chairman Peter S. Watson; Background on OPIC, a U.S. government agency. INSET: Enron-Related Deals Seen in a New Light.

Reports on the legislative inquiry into the criminal liability of Enron Corp. for financial misrepresentations it made to the Overseas Private Investment Corp. and the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Focuses on broker Chung Wu of brokerage firm UBS PaineWebber, who was fired for advising some Enron employees to sell their shares in August 2001, according to e-mail messages released by U.S. Congressional investigators. How Enron executives pressed PaineWebber to take action against Wu; Replacement of Wu's low assessment of Enron stock with an optimistic report; PaineWebber's defense of its action; The lawsuit against PaineWebber that was filed by Enron investors.

Reports on the request of the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee for details of communications involving Enron and various regulatory agencies.

Reports that U.S. Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White has told Congressional investigators that he had several telephone conversations with current and former officials of Enron in October 2001.

Reports on the arguments of credit-rating agencies in the United States against the move of Enron company to withheld financial details.

Reports on the expectation for credit-rating agencies to offer explanations for their failure to detect financial problems at Enron more quickly at a United States Congressional hearing. Criticism of the rating agencies for their performance; Status of rating agencies; Comment of rating agencies that they were misled by Enron executives about the company's financial condition.

Discusses how U.S. Senate Democrats are proposing laws to increase criminal penalties for certain corporate wrongdoing and give state attorneys general powers to sue companies. How Democrats contrast with U.S. President George W. Bush's response to Enron's collapse; Plan that was proposed by Bush; Comments of Senate majority leader Tom Dashchle (D-S.D.); Details of the Democrats' package.

Deals with a hearing on March 14, 2002 which will focus on the performance of Enron's lawyers.

Examines the appropriations and regulatory duties of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in line with the financial scandal faced by Enron Corp.

Focuses on a letter sent by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee to former Enron chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling expressing doubts over his testimony before Congress. Reasons, including statements by Enron accounting executives; Question of Skilling's involvement in the partnerships known as the Raptors; Highlights of the letter; Criticism of Skilling in the special Enron committee report, written by William C. Powers Jr.; Details of the Raptor restructuring. INSETS: Trial Deadline Is Set for 2003;Industry Group Suggests Ways To Help Auditors Find Fraud, by....