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Tracking Bank Failures: Regulators Seize Nine U.S. Banks

Nov 2, 2009
Banking regulators seized nine related community lenders in California, Illinois, Arizona and Texas, representing the collapse of one of the nation’s largest privately held bank holding...

Banking Pay: ‘Is It Really Risk Mitigation or Just Populist Politics?’

Oct 23, 2009
Associated Press Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg The government has had Wall Street compensation in its sights for some time. But for the most part it was a lot of bluster and little action. That all...

Know Your BofA CEO Candidate: Brian Moynihan

Oct 22, 2009
This is the second in a series of profiles of possible candidates for the chief executive job at Bank of America. The Merrill Lynch deal may have contributed to Ken Lewis’s undoing. Now could it...

The Real Cost of TARP: The Public’s Mistrust

Oct 12, 2009
As threats from the financial crisis fade, Neil Barofsky’s job has, in some ways, gotten tougher. The watchdog overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program is looking back at the short-comings...

How Buffett Could Help Kraft Sweeten Its Cadbury Bid

Oct 8, 2009
The spectacle offered by Kraft Foods’ proposed takeover of Cadbury just might give Warren Buffett, the U.S. food giant’s largest shareholder, the opportunity for a masterstroke.

Putting the Sun-Oracle Antitrust Case In Perspective

Nov 10, 2009
The U.S. Department of Justice went out of its way yesterday to enunciate the differences between its approval of Oracle Corp.’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. and the objections of European Commission to the deal. Within hours of the EC’s...

A Financial Crisis Investigation Scorecard

Nov 10, 2009
Since the financial crisis began, there have been more than a dozen criminal investigations launched into investment banks, hedge funds and home builders. But so far prosecutors have scored very few convictions. The latest setback for prosecutors was...

Geithner Gives AIG Shareholders the Cold Shoulder

Nov 10, 2009
Moody’s may be giving American International Group a cleaner bill of health, but keep that champagne chilled. AIG shares are up this afternoon after the rating agency said that the insurer will likely be able to repay most of the federal government’s...

BlackRock’s Larry Fink: Now’s the Time for Stocks

Nov 10, 2009
Larry Fink is no aspiring Jim Cramer. But in an early-morning breakfast hosted by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, the chief executive of investment manager BlackRock Inc. presented a case for buying stocks today. Bloomberg News Larry Fink “A record...

The Case for Why Oracle Will Win in Europe

Nov 10, 2009
The headlines look ominous. European anti-trust regulators are “formally” objecting to Oracle Corp’s attempt to purchase Sun Microsystems Inc. Investors are skittish too, sending Sun’s share price down 13% from the $9.50-a-share price that Oracle...


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