A couple of minor technical problems called “business” and “life” have now intruded on my increasingly bogged down publication schedule that, in the interest...
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Moneycontrol.comThe numbers on the Facebook earnings revisionsReutersBy Poornima Gupta and Alexei Oreskovic | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Four of Facebook's major underwriters -- Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Bank of America -- reduced ...
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Financials rise; regulators to review JP MorganMarketWatchAmong the Dow Jones Industrial Average's (DJI:DJIA) financial shares, Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) and JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) each rose about 1.5%. It's a good time to o...
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CitybizlistJPMorgan Veered From Hedging Practices at Banks With Credit BetsSan Francisco ChronicleMay 22 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s biggest US competitors say their corporate investment offices avoid the use of derivatives that led t...
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BloombergJPMorgan Veered From Hedging Practices at Competing BanksBusinessWeekJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) (JPM)'s biggest US competitors say their corporate investment offices avoid the use of derivatives that led to the bank's $2 billion lo...
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BloombergJPMorgan Veered From Hedging Practices at Competing BanksBloombergJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)'s biggest US competitors say their corporate investment offices avoid the use of derivatives that led to the bank's $2 billion loss and bu...
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FDIC Sues JPMorgan, Citigroup, BofA Securities, Deutsche BankBloombergThe Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Citigroup Inc. (C), Bank of America Securities and Deutsche Bank AG. (DBK) The FDIC sued in New York federal ...
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Frederick J. Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009) and "The Coming Collapse of the Municipal Bond Market" (Aucontrarian.com, 2009...
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The lawyers for Goldman and Bank of America/Merrill Lynch have been involved in a legal battle for some time – primarily with the retail giant Overstock.com, but also with Rolling Stone, the Economist, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. The banks have been fighting us to keep sealed certain documents that surfaced in the...
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ChicagoNowBofA hiking relocation aid for troubled homeownersReuters* Customers can receive payments between $2500 and $30000 * Program based on test in Florida * Short sales must be initiated by year end May 15 (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp said on ...
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Straits TimesWeak Jobs Read Slams Wall StreetFox BusinessBy Adam Samson Wall Street tumbled on Friday in a broad-based retreat amid signs that US economic expansion may be losing some of its luster. As of 10:40 am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average s...
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If you have a mortgage with Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and want to refinance, don't bother.
You are not worth the bank's time. Or at least I wasn't.
That's what I learned first-hand last week when I called...
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Analysis: The great hedge fund humbling of 2011
By Svea Herbst and Katya Wachtel | Reuters – 3 hrs ago...
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Excuses, excuses and more excuses.
The result was a humbling year for the $1.7 trillion hedge fund industry, with...
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January 6, 2012, 9:03 pm
Wall Street Is Bracing for Dismal 4th Quarter
By SUSANNE CRAIG
Wall Street banks have been buffeted by the weak American economy and the European debt crisis.
For most Wall Street bankers, 2011 was a year they would rathe...
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Bloomberg
U.S. Growth Decoupling From Bonds Means Lower Yields to JPMorgan
December 11, 2011, 7:26 PM EST
By Daniel Kruger and Liz Capo McCormick
Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The strengthening U.S. economy is proving no deterrent to the biggest rally in ...
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ELIMINATING the benefits reaped by institutions that are too politically powerful and interconnected to fail has been an elusive goal in the aftermath of the credit crisis. Institutions most likely to receive assistance from the federal government if t...
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Ilargi: It's very simple, but maybe that's the problem. For all I know it's just too simple for people to see.
There's a group of people, and it's tempting to call them the 1%, but they’re not really, since there’s politicians in there too who ...
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One of the biggest problems with Wall Street's malfeasance is how the ruling elite view legal settlements - as little more than an acceptable cost of doing business.
Well, no more.
Thanks to Judge Jed Rakoff we may see some real regulatory action leading...
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Major Banks Face New Foreclosure Lawsuit
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Citing extensive abuses of troubled borrowers across Massachusetts, the state’s attorney general sued the nation’s five largest mortgage lenders on Thursday, seeking relief for cons...
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Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B
So here's what I got from this.
Howard Opinsky, a spokesman for JPMorgan (JPM), declined to comment about Dimon’s statement or the company’s Fed borrowings. Jerry Dubrowski, a spokesman for Bank of Amer...
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S&P to update bank credit ratings within 3 weeks
By David Henry | Reuters – 1 hr 22 mins ago...
(Reuters) - Standard & Poor's plans to update its credit ratings for the world's 30 biggest banks within three weeks and may well mete out a few dow...
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Customers won a victory in early November when their protests prompted Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) to drop new banking fees on debit cards.
But while you were celebrating, banks got busy finding new ways to recoup that money.
Now they've implemented new,...
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-15/goldman-s-blankfein-growth-to-
snap-back-.html
And if that doesn't pan out, there's always a job waiting as head of Treasury, the Fed, or Greece.
Excerpt:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), the fifth- biggest ...
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Yes, The Big Banks DO Care If We Move Our Money
650,000 customers moved $4.5 billion dollars out of the big banks and into smaller banks and credit unions in the last month.
But there is a myth making the rounds that the big banks don’t really ca...
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Investing legend Warren Buffett must be feeling good about the U.S. market and economic outlook - he's bet $24 billion on them.
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) invested $23.9 billion in this year's third quarter, the most in at least 15 years.
Nightmare scenario: U.S. deflation risks rising
On Wednesday October 26, 2011, 4:19 pm EDT
By Jason Lange
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Risks are rising that a moribund job market and potentially steep drop in inflation could push the United States into a d...
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