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New York Mayor Bloomberg takes aim at giant-sized sugary sodas
NEW YORK -- As one New York institution – the Stock Exchange – prepared to celebrate National Doughnut Day on Friday with a mass giveaway of Krispy Kremes, another New York institution – Mayor Michael Bloomberg – told the city it&...
Tags: NYSE, Stock Market, Food Industry, Obesity, MSNBC (tv network)
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EU calls for 'banking union' to ease crisis
The European Union's executive office said the 17-country Eurozone needs a "banking union" that can centrally oversee and — if needed — bail out the sector, which has become a weak link in the continent's financial system. Fears that the cost...Tags: National Government, European Union, International Organizations, Employment Opportunities, Credit Ratings
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We need a stronger Glass-Steagall Act to regulate financial firms
"Bring back Glass-Steagall!" That's the cry you hear most often for restoring regulatory stringency to our misbehaving financial sector.
The 1933 law, which barred commercial banks from underwriting or investing in stocks — in effect, from owning...Tags: Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, University of Chicago, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Facebook troubles take the steam out of bid to loosen IPO rules
WASHINGTON — There was so much support in Washington two months ago for loosening rules on initial public offerings that Republicans and Democrats effortlessly passed a bill making it easier for smaller companies to raise money on Wall Street....Tags: Initial Public Offerings, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Judges, Media Industry
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Spain's borrowing costs rise, stocks sink following bank rescue
World NowMADRID -- Spain's borrowing costs flirted with record highs Monday and stock prices sank on the first trading day since Madrid agreed to give $24 billion of taxpayers' money to rescue its largest real estate lender. The country's prime minister vigorously... -
Nervous investors are looking beyond positive U.S. economic signs
New home sales are up. The unemployment rate is falling. Companies are buying one another, signaling confidence in the economy.
But investors are turning their back on positive economic signs, looking nervously at Europe's seemingly never-ending debt...Tags: European Union, Initial Public Offerings, Economy, Business and Finance, Media Industry, Ariba Incorporated
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Facebook, Wall Street banks under fire from lawmakers and lawyers
WASHINGTON — Already grappling with regulatory reviews of its troubled initial public offering, Facebook Inc. and the Wall Street banks that shepherded the deal are now under fire from lawmakers and lawyers.
Two congressional committees said...Tags: Sherrod Brown, Mark Zuckerberg, Laws, Initial Public Offerings, Finance
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Fed regional bank directors saw improvement in economy
Directors at the Federal Reserve's regional banks saw a pickup in the pace of economic growth last month as housing, motor vehicle sales and consumer spending gained strength.
"Directors noted further improvement in economic activity, and they...Tags: Economic Indicator, Federal Reserve, Banking, Finance, Board of Directors
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Facebook IPO flop drawing increased scrutiny
As Facebook shares continued their slide, regulators launched inquiries into whether privileged Wall Street insiders were alerted to the company's weakening financial projections, leading them to shun the stock or dump shares just as buying was opened...Tags: Stock Market, NASDAQ, Initial Public Offerings, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Key regulators learned of JPMorgan loss from media reports
WASHINGTON — The public won't be protected from the type of risky bets that led to the huge trading loss at JPMorgan Chase & Co. until new rules are approved to allow better monitoring of complicated derivatives transactions, two key federal...Tags: Laws, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Barack Obama
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Insider-trading trial of former Goldman director gets underway
NEW YORK Shortly after Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s board learned of famed investor Warren Buffett's $5-billion lifeline at the height of the financial crisis, then-director Rajat Gupta phoned hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.
Rajaratnam, a federal...Tags: Mutual Funds, Prosecution, Galleon Group, Raj Rajaratnam, Judges
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Greek cash withdrawals raise fear of run on banks
ATHENS — Eva, a well-groomed pensioner, grasps her creamy white purse, glancing impatiently at her gold Cartier watch as she waits for the manager of an Athens bank. She is offered tea, cookies and orange juice, none of which the state bank...
Tags: Europe, Karolos Papoulias, Athens (Greece), Elections, Greece
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