Obama Plans Summit With CEOs

The White House is planning to meet Wednesday with corporate chief executives to discuss the economy.
By TheStreet Staff ,

WASHINGTON (

TheStreet

) -- President Obama plans to hold a one-day summit of corporate leaders Wednesday, according to a published media report.

The summit is part of White House efforts to build support among business leaders for the president's economic policies, according to the report, published Saturday on

The Wall Street Journal's

Web site.

Invitees include the chief executives of

Google

(GOOG) - Get Report

,

Cisco Systems

(CSCO) - Get Report

,

Facebook

,

International Business Machines

(IBM) - Get Report

,

American Express

(AXP) - Get Report

,

Dow Chemical

(DOW) - Get Report

and

Pepsico

(PEP) - Get Report

, the report said.

Among the meeting's topics will be trade, taxes, regulation and the deficit, according to the report.

In addition, the White House wants to convince companies to inject some of the cash and other liquid assets they're holding in their treasuries into the economy, the report added.

> > Bull or Bear? Vote in Our Poll

This article was written by a staff member of TheStreet.

Loading ...