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Stocks surge more than 1% ahead of Fed meeting
NEW YORK -- The main event for Wall Street this week may not yield any surprises -- or so investors seem to think. Stocks surged more than 1% early Monday ahead of a key Federal Reserve meeting, a sign investors do not expect the central bank to...
Tags: Ben Bernanke, Charles Schwab, Stock Market, Money and Monetary Policy, Singapore Airlines
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Markets likely to stay jumpy as investors fret over end of easy money
NEW YORK -- Jumpy markets may not calm down anytime soon. Stocks have become increasingly volatile in recent weeks, moving sharply higher or lower -- and then abruptly reversing -- at the slightest hint a central bank may tighten the spigot of easy...
Tags: Central Bank, T. Rowe Price, Money and Monetary Policy, ING Group, Federal Reserve
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School bond campaign reform sought
When the Garden Grove Unified School District was preparing to seek voter approval for a $250-million bond measure, it hired a securities broker to play a key role in the campaign. State law bars school districts from spending money to influence the...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Voting, Political Fundraising, Government, Bill Lockyer
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Stocks jump after home prices, confidence surge
A rally that brought the stock market to record highs this year came back to life after U.S. home prices rose the most in seven years and consumer confidence reached a five-year high. As stock prices rose investors sold bonds, sending interest rates...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Tesla Motors, Inc., Prudential Financial Incorporated, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Consumer Confidence
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Citi settles Fannie and Freddie claims over mortgage bond losses
Citigroup Inc. has become the second financial giant to settle a regulator's lawsuits over questionable mortgage bonds sold to taxpayer-owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the housing bubble. The agreement, disclosed Tuesday, is the second reached...
Tags: Litigation, Mortgages, Economy, Business and Finance, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Banking
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Oklahoma's tornado and political cheap shots
It's as predictable as it is disheartening: A red state gets hit hard by a tornado outbreak -- in this case killing at least 24 people, many of them children attending school -- and the first batch of letters from readers (most of them from Southern...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Natural Disasters, Career and Workplace, Mitt Romney, Employees
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GOP may seek to tie debt ceiling deal to tax code changes
WASHINGTON — In a little more than a week, the U.S. will hit its debt limit — and the maneuvering has begun against a backdrop of the mid-2011 drama that led to the nation's first-ever credit downgrade. An improving economy and higher taxes,...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Congress, Financial and Business Services, Republican Party, Consumer Confidence
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Boehner: Bondholders should be paid first if debt limit breached
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner said holders of U.S. government bonds should be paid first if the nation's debt limit is breached, even if that means that China would get preference over the salaries of U.S. troops. Boehner (R-Ohio) defended...
Tags: Peter Cook, U.S. Congress, Republican Party, U.S. Department of the Treasury, John Boehner
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Bondholders spark U.S. legal drama over Argentine debt
Collection agencies profit by buying up old debt, chasing borrowers for payment and, when all else fails, using the courts to recover as much as they can. It's a business model polished and perfected over decades of litigation. But what if the...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Litigation and Regulation, Ghana, Trials
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Who takes hit in city bankruptcies: bondholders or workers?
The municipal-debt market has always rested on a simple notion — that local governments would do whatever they must to repay borrowed money. Cities wouldn't want to default on their bonds, some of which are owned by their own citizens. And they...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Financially Distressed Companies, California Public Employees' Retirement System, Assured Guaranty Limited, Career and Workplace
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Jobs numbers send stocks to record highs
NEW YORK —The economy may still be dallying on its way to a recovery, but investors are paying that no mind, sending the stock market to all-time highs after a better-than-expected April jobs report. The Dow Jones industrial average and the...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Stock Market, Money and Monetary Policy, Prudential Financial Incorporated, Finance
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Investors snap up $17 billion in Apple bonds
First came the frenzy for iPhones and iPads. Now there's a scramble for iBonds. Apple Inc. sold $17 billion in bonds Tuesday, a gargantuan deal that ranked as the largest in global corporate history. And even though the securities are paying...
Tags: Labor Markets, Economy, Business and Finance, Employment Opportunities, Apple iPhone, IBM
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