Bank overhaul battle pays off for Republicans
Boston Globe
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law last July, is the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations in decades and was a response to the largest US economic crisis since the Depression. ...
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GLOBAL ECONOMY WEEKAHEAD-Oil slump vindicates Fed doves
Reuters
The prospect of continued easy money from Washington may help offset concern among investors, already anxious about signs of slower economic growth in many countries, that the weekend arrest of the head of the International Monetary Fund will further ...
See all stories on this topic »
SunTrust's TARP exit bolsters hopes
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Before TARP loans are repaid, regulators want banks that received taxpayer funds to prove they are profitable and that the worst of the financial crisis is behind them. Several Georgia community banks also are said to be considering repayments, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Kicking The Can To The End Of The Road
The Business Insider
John Mauldin is a bestselling author and financial advisor. He publishes a free weekly email on the economy--"Thoughts From The Frontline" This week we turn from the crisis brewing in the US to the one that is coming to a slow boil in Europe. ...
See all stories on this topic »
The Business Insider
Did Deutsche Bank Do Them Wrong?
Seeking Alpha
The article, titled “Deutsche Bank, Akerman Sentertfitt Sues Lynn Szymoniak's Son With NoFinancial Interest In Her Case” is troubling because the author clearly does not understand what he is writing about. More troubling is that there is so much ...
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Pension Precipice: Pain and promise of public pensions
Santa Cruz Sentinel
The countywide dilemma is part of a broader statewide problem that emerged after theeconomic crisis. Once-rosy financial projections on the health of the state's massive, deep-pocketed pension funds encouraged improvements to worker benefits, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Arizona banks seeing a profit
Arizona Republic
The 37 banks still based in the state just wrapped up their best quarter since the financial crisis and recession began, breaking a string of 12 straight quarters during which the majority of institutions here lost money. On balance, the local industry ...
See all stories on this topic »
Nigeria: Politics, moves to check money laundering dominate Nigerian media
Afrique en Ligue
... by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which sought to limit the daily cash withdrawals and lodgements in the country, would bring about a drastic reduction in money laundering, terrorist financing and other economic and financial crimes in Nigeria. ...
See all stories on this topic »
In times of trouble, go with the money flow
Financial Times
In the former, higher commodity prices are a tax on growth and consumption, choking offeconomic recovery. Further, there is the symbiotic financial relationship between the US and emerging markets. Demand for US Treasury bonds, which continue to sell ...
See all stories on this topic »
Barack Obama and the Queen to visit Ireland during its time of despair
The Guardian
"The country is so preoccupied with the financial crisis. I don't know anyone who isn't suffering," he said. "There's no passion about the Queen's visit, but there's a benign affability. She is regarded like an eccentric aunt who should have called in ...
See all stories on this topic »
The Guardian
Jim Rogers: Dollar Is a 'Total Disaster'
Seeking Alpha
Unfortunately, things have gotten worse since, during what will likely be seen in retrospect as the only real opportunity for financial reform this time around. Too late, Obama, if you even give a sh1t. So we are all-but guaranteed another, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan mulling Senate bid
Salon
On top of that, we faced a terrible financial crisis and a recession." These are indisputable historical facts. To Republicans like Ryan and the carnival-sideshow performers seeking the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, however, mere reality is out of ...
See all stories on this topic »
Salon
Financial markets as way out of Nigeria's debt overhang
Vanguard
It is important to note that prior to the recent financial crisis, many countries enjoyed relatively simple access to external donor funds, predominantly in the form of multilateral and bilateral loans and grants secured on concesssional terms from ...
See all stories on this topic »
Sunday newspaper round-up:Coalition, gas prices, inflation, RBS
ShareCast
“The banking system in the UK seems paralysed by the excesses of the past few years – which is not what you see in France and Germany,” says the Deutsche Bank economist, according to the Financial Times´Weekend edition. Chancellor George Osborne is ...
See all stories on this topic »
East Tennessee missed the full brunt of the Great Recession but wasn't ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
Economic analysts and area business people say Knoxville was not as severely affected by the recession as other areas of the country, but work remains to be done to bring regional employment back to the levels enjoyed before the 2007 financial crisis ...
See all stories on this topic »
Out of reach
Allentown Morning Call
Their financial struggle highlights a worsening economic problem throughout the Lehigh Valley. Modest housing is becoming increasingly out of reach for the region's working poor. Rising rents and utility costs coupled with falling wages are widening ...
See all stories on this topic »
Allentown Morning Call
Shayne Heffernan Weekly Outlook, FLO, ANDE, ADM
Live Trading News
Financial stocks took a monster hit, with the S&P Financial Index falling 1.5 percent. The future of Banks and Financial Institutions that are dependent on the USA is now feeling the weight of the the knee jerk political reforms of the White House, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Live Trading News
Why no Wall St. bigwig has been prosecuted
msnbc.com
The claim that it was "caused by financial fraud" is debatable, but the weight of the evidence is strongly against it. The financial crisis was accompanied by fraud, on the part of mortgage applicants as well as banks. It was caused, more nearly, ...
See all stories on this topic »
msnbc.com
150 fascinating, fun, important, interesting, lifesaving, life-altering ...
Boston Globe
... of call options in a stock market or stock options given to employees of a public company. MIT professor Peter Diamond says Black-Scholes helped lead to the creation of more complex derivatives, which played a role in the recent financial crisis. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Bruised Wall St faces grim housing data
Sydney Morning Herald
''We're entering a period of extreme volatility because the data are sending mixed signals,'' said Lindsey Piegza, an economist at FTN Financial. Economic indicators published this week sparked little interest. Consumer prices rose as expected and the ...
See all stories on this topic »
Weekly Treasury Update
Gulf Times
Reacting to potentially slower economic growth, major stock market indexes fell 0.8% or more. The euro fell against most currencies, dropping to a six-week lows against the dollar and the yen on renewed concerns Greece may restructure its debt. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Investors may hit brakes on stocks this week
msnbc.com
Goldman argues stocks have been driven further than economic fundamentals justify by heightened risk appetite. Sentiment indicators are elevated but off highs earlier in the year, while the CBOE Volatility Index, or Vix, is at pre-financial crisis ...
See all stories on this topic »
America takes us back to the seventies
The Australian
At least in the advanced economies, floating exchange rates, the removal of capital controls and central bank independence have reshaped the monetary system for the better. Yet the fundamentals of US economic policy, with ever-growing budget deficits ...
See all stories on this topic »
As stock market slows down, defensive stocks shine
DailyFinance
Bernanke's efforts were mostly designed to push investors into stocks after many pulledmoney out of stocks during the financial crisis. They've fled into all sorts of assets including tradable bank loans, heating oil futures, carbon-emission credits ...
See all stories on this topic »
Stocks Fall As European Financial Crisis Expands - Money News ...
Both Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped 2 percent on Friday. ..."That's been the big trade," said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic ... Fears of a deepeningfinancial crisis overshadowed reports that found that ...
www.wsbtv.com/money/27884920/detail.html
Boston Globe
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law last July, is the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations in decades and was a response to the largest US economic crisis since the Depression. ...
See all stories on this topic »
GLOBAL ECONOMY WEEKAHEAD-Oil slump vindicates Fed doves
Reuters
The prospect of continued easy money from Washington may help offset concern among investors, already anxious about signs of slower economic growth in many countries, that the weekend arrest of the head of the International Monetary Fund will further ...
See all stories on this topic »
SunTrust's TARP exit bolsters hopes
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Before TARP loans are repaid, regulators want banks that received taxpayer funds to prove they are profitable and that the worst of the financial crisis is behind them. Several Georgia community banks also are said to be considering repayments, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Kicking The Can To The End Of The Road
The Business Insider
John Mauldin is a bestselling author and financial advisor. He publishes a free weekly email on the economy--"Thoughts From The Frontline" This week we turn from the crisis brewing in the US to the one that is coming to a slow boil in Europe. ...
See all stories on this topic »
The Business Insider
Did Deutsche Bank Do Them Wrong?
Seeking Alpha
The article, titled “Deutsche Bank, Akerman Sentertfitt Sues Lynn Szymoniak's Son With NoFinancial Interest In Her Case” is troubling because the author clearly does not understand what he is writing about. More troubling is that there is so much ...
See all stories on this topic »
Pension Precipice: Pain and promise of public pensions
Santa Cruz Sentinel
The countywide dilemma is part of a broader statewide problem that emerged after theeconomic crisis. Once-rosy financial projections on the health of the state's massive, deep-pocketed pension funds encouraged improvements to worker benefits, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Arizona banks seeing a profit
Arizona Republic
The 37 banks still based in the state just wrapped up their best quarter since the financial crisis and recession began, breaking a string of 12 straight quarters during which the majority of institutions here lost money. On balance, the local industry ...
See all stories on this topic »
Nigeria: Politics, moves to check money laundering dominate Nigerian media
Afrique en Ligue
... by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which sought to limit the daily cash withdrawals and lodgements in the country, would bring about a drastic reduction in money laundering, terrorist financing and other economic and financial crimes in Nigeria. ...
See all stories on this topic »
In times of trouble, go with the money flow
Financial Times
In the former, higher commodity prices are a tax on growth and consumption, choking offeconomic recovery. Further, there is the symbiotic financial relationship between the US and emerging markets. Demand for US Treasury bonds, which continue to sell ...
See all stories on this topic »
Barack Obama and the Queen to visit Ireland during its time of despair
The Guardian
"The country is so preoccupied with the financial crisis. I don't know anyone who isn't suffering," he said. "There's no passion about the Queen's visit, but there's a benign affability. She is regarded like an eccentric aunt who should have called in ...
See all stories on this topic »
The Guardian
Jim Rogers: Dollar Is a 'Total Disaster'
Seeking Alpha
Unfortunately, things have gotten worse since, during what will likely be seen in retrospect as the only real opportunity for financial reform this time around. Too late, Obama, if you even give a sh1t. So we are all-but guaranteed another, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan mulling Senate bid
Salon
On top of that, we faced a terrible financial crisis and a recession." These are indisputable historical facts. To Republicans like Ryan and the carnival-sideshow performers seeking the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, however, mere reality is out of ...
See all stories on this topic »
Salon
Financial markets as way out of Nigeria's debt overhang
Vanguard
It is important to note that prior to the recent financial crisis, many countries enjoyed relatively simple access to external donor funds, predominantly in the form of multilateral and bilateral loans and grants secured on concesssional terms from ...
See all stories on this topic »
Sunday newspaper round-up:Coalition, gas prices, inflation, RBS
ShareCast
“The banking system in the UK seems paralysed by the excesses of the past few years – which is not what you see in France and Germany,” says the Deutsche Bank economist, according to the Financial Times´Weekend edition. Chancellor George Osborne is ...
See all stories on this topic »
East Tennessee missed the full brunt of the Great Recession but wasn't ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
Economic analysts and area business people say Knoxville was not as severely affected by the recession as other areas of the country, but work remains to be done to bring regional employment back to the levels enjoyed before the 2007 financial crisis ...
See all stories on this topic »
Out of reach
Allentown Morning Call
Their financial struggle highlights a worsening economic problem throughout the Lehigh Valley. Modest housing is becoming increasingly out of reach for the region's working poor. Rising rents and utility costs coupled with falling wages are widening ...
See all stories on this topic »
Allentown Morning Call
Shayne Heffernan Weekly Outlook, FLO, ANDE, ADM
Live Trading News
Financial stocks took a monster hit, with the S&P Financial Index falling 1.5 percent. The future of Banks and Financial Institutions that are dependent on the USA is now feeling the weight of the the knee jerk political reforms of the White House, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Live Trading News
Why no Wall St. bigwig has been prosecuted
msnbc.com
The claim that it was "caused by financial fraud" is debatable, but the weight of the evidence is strongly against it. The financial crisis was accompanied by fraud, on the part of mortgage applicants as well as banks. It was caused, more nearly, ...
See all stories on this topic »
msnbc.com
150 fascinating, fun, important, interesting, lifesaving, life-altering ...
Boston Globe
... of call options in a stock market or stock options given to employees of a public company. MIT professor Peter Diamond says Black-Scholes helped lead to the creation of more complex derivatives, which played a role in the recent financial crisis. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Bruised Wall St faces grim housing data
Sydney Morning Herald
''We're entering a period of extreme volatility because the data are sending mixed signals,'' said Lindsey Piegza, an economist at FTN Financial. Economic indicators published this week sparked little interest. Consumer prices rose as expected and the ...
See all stories on this topic »
Weekly Treasury Update
Gulf Times
Reacting to potentially slower economic growth, major stock market indexes fell 0.8% or more. The euro fell against most currencies, dropping to a six-week lows against the dollar and the yen on renewed concerns Greece may restructure its debt. ...
See all stories on this topic »
Investors may hit brakes on stocks this week
msnbc.com
Goldman argues stocks have been driven further than economic fundamentals justify by heightened risk appetite. Sentiment indicators are elevated but off highs earlier in the year, while the CBOE Volatility Index, or Vix, is at pre-financial crisis ...
See all stories on this topic »
America takes us back to the seventies
The Australian
At least in the advanced economies, floating exchange rates, the removal of capital controls and central bank independence have reshaped the monetary system for the better. Yet the fundamentals of US economic policy, with ever-growing budget deficits ...
See all stories on this topic »
As stock market slows down, defensive stocks shine
DailyFinance
Bernanke's efforts were mostly designed to push investors into stocks after many pulledmoney out of stocks during the financial crisis. They've fled into all sorts of assets including tradable bank loans, heating oil futures, carbon-emission credits ...
See all stories on this topic »
Stocks Fall As European Financial Crisis Expands - Money News ...
Both Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped 2 percent on Friday. ..."That's been the big trade," said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic ... Fears of a deepeningfinancial crisis overshadowed reports that found that ...
www.wsbtv.com/money/27884920/detail.html
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