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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Cyber Terrorism Is Now Seen as a Real Threat
Quaint details such as letters written in invisible ink, rendezvous in parks and buried stashes of cash...
Labels:
barack obama,
russian spies,
spies,
the white house,
vladimir putin
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Where to Stash Your Cash Now
With the volatility shaking the market, investors once again are looking for a safe place to stash their cash...
Labels:
bonds,
invest,
investment,
investors,
stock market,
stocks,
wall street
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Judge in Spill Case Sold Stock This Week
The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling sold stock...
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Commodities Star Trader Hall Absorbs Loss
In what may serve as a cautionary tale for traders who bolt for hedge funds, legendary energy trader Andrew Hall, formerly of Citigroup..
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andrew hall,
citi,
citigroup,
commoditites
Thursday, June 24, 2010
New Fronts Open Up in Smartphone Turf War
Consumers around the globe will wait on long lines Thursday to get their hands on the newest iPhone, but far from the sidewalk frenzy, Apple Inc.'s smartphone..
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blackberry,
iphone,
iphone 4,
smartphone
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Judge Overturns Drilling Ban
A federal judge overturned the White House's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. Interior Secretary Salazar said he would issue an order to effectively reinstate the moratorium..
Labels:
bp,
deepwater horizon,
gulf of mexico,
moratorium,
oil,
oil spill,
secretary salazar
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Stocks fall after China currency enthusiasm fades
Stocks erased big gains Monday after investors lost some of their enthusiasm about to let its currency appreciate against the dollar..
Labels:
china,
dollar,
euro,
fraud on wall street,
japan,
korea,
stock markets,
stocks,
the doallr,
the euro
Monday, June 21, 2010
Jackson Estate Steers to Next Crisis: Loan Repayment
Nearly a year after Michael Jackson's death, the managers overseeing his estate have stabilized its precarious financial situation, but at least one major liability still looms: a $300 million loan due at the end of this year.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Toyota, Supplier Settle
A Toyota parts supplier reached an agreement with striking workers in a dispute that had idled one of the auto maker's plants in China...
Labels:
auto maker,
china,
japan,
Toyoda Gosei Co,
toyota
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Hedge Funds Whipsawed by Gas Bets
The rally in natural-gas prices has caught many hedge funds flatfooted, sparking a string of unexpected losses for top-name players.
Labels:
gas,
hedge funds,
natural gas,
wall street
Friday, June 18, 2010
Jobs Bill Fails Again In Senate
Deficit concerns once again trumped jobless aid in the Senate as Republicans, a lone Democrat and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Thursday evening defeated an urgent bill to reauthorize expired several expired domestic aid programs...
Thursday, June 17, 2010
End Is Seen to Free Checking
Bank of America and other banks are preparing new fees on basic banking services as they try to replace revenue lost to regulatory rules..
Labels:
bank of america,
bofa,
fdic,
free checking,
us bank,
wells fargo
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Administrators for Lehman Aim to Return $22 Billion
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s European administrators, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, will unveil on Wednesday a proposal to expedite the return of as much as $22 billion of assets to the failed bank's unsecured creditors...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Obama's Political Oil Fund
The BP oil spill is already a calamity for the Gulf Coast ecosystem and economy, but now that Washington is looking to deflect all political blame it could also became a disaster for the rule of law...
Labels:
barack obama,
bp,
gulf of mexico,
oil,
oil fund,
oil spill
Monday, June 14, 2010
Consumer Sentiment Rises In June
U.S. consumer sentiment rose in early June, hitting the highest level since January 2008, according to media reports on Friday of the Reuters/University of Michigan index. The consumer sentiment index increased to 75.5 in June from 73.6 in May...
Sunday, June 13, 2010
U.S. Companies Holding Record $1.8T Cash
FBN’s Liz MacDonald on the record amount of cash many companies are holding to protect them from potential taxes and regulations...
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1 trillion in cash,
debt,
deficit,
recession,
regulations,
taxes,
u.s.economy
Saturday, June 12, 2010
iPad muscles into corporate Asia
Apple's iPad, initially viewed as a Web entertainment gadget for consumers, is quickly making inroads across businesses in Asia…
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Citic Securities tops brokerages in net profits
Citic Securities earned the most net profits, managed the largest assets and brought in the second-most revenues in 2009 among 106 members of the Securities Association of China (SAC),
Labels:
bankrupcy,
citic,
citic securities,
debt,
default,
loans,
securities
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Another hit to Goldman's image
It’s hard to imagine that Goldman Sachs & Co. would want to give the government another opportunity to paint the firm as an enemy of the state...
Labels:
fraud on wallstreet,
goldman sachs,
wallstreet
Monday, June 7, 2010
The Fed: Easy Money to Stick Around
Investors spent much of early 2010 wondering when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would start to tighten financial conditions to rein in the substantial support to the U.S. economy...
Labels:
ben bernake,
federal reserve,
the fed,
u.s. economy
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