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There are growing concerns that the regulatory bodies overseeing the financial sector are incapable of understanding, preventing or even properly investigating excessive risk taking that threatens to ruin the economy.
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Is the Federal Reserve too complex to manage, too? That’s usually a question for big banks like JPMorgan, recently humbled by a surprise trading loss. But it’s also not a bad one for the Fed. From the presence of JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon on the New York Fed board to the US central bank’s forays into housing policy, the Fed seems to be pleasing no-one.
Facebook IPO adds to distrust of stocks BLOOMBERG Copyright 2012 BLOOMBERG. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 11:29 p.m., Friday, May 25, 2012 Facebook's initial public offering, plagued by trading errors and a big drop in its $38 IPO share price, will push more individual investors out of a stock market they already ...
Texas GOP incumbents see little to fear in tea party challenges Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 08:21 p.m., Saturday, May 26, 2012 Despite the fact that tea party insurgents are waging campaigns against 11 of the 22 Texas Republicans seeking re-election to their House ...
Of four of the public banks who penned the foreclosure agreement with the government earlier this year, B of A is the least healthy.
At Ashton Potter, Barry Switzer, the president and chief executive officer, is sizing up his company's growth prospects.
Just about everyone agrees that the chance of Greece abandoning the euro has risen of late. It’s now the topic of speculation on an online betting market.
Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, plagued by trading errors and a 16 percent drop in the share price, will push more individual investors out of a stock market they already distrust after the financial crisis.
The amount of insurance-like credit default swaps the bank sold was double its $50.2bn net position at the end of December and more than four times its $23.6bn net position as of Sept. 30, 2011.
Marisa DeFranco, a lawyer with a scrappy group of supporters, is close to getting on the primary ballot against Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic front-runner.
The refinancing market has been on a tear lately, but bankers and economists say the boom can't last. Or can it?
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) says that JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion loss earlier this month reaffirms the argument for regulating Wall Street. In an interview with the Daily Beast published online on Saturday, Frank signaled his belief that if the banking fiasco occurred five years ago, there "would have been a lot more panic and nervousness in the economy."
Job growth probably picked up in May after the weakest gain in six months, and the U.S. unemployment rate held at a three-year low, signs of gradual improvement in the labor market, economists said before reports this week.
The three directors who oversee risk at JPMorgan Chase include a museum head who sat on American International Group's governance committee in 2008, the grandson of a billionaire and the chief executive officer of a...
US prosecutors have gained an early edge in Raj Gupta’s insider trading trial. Judge Jed Rakoff largely adopted their version of a preliminary jury instruction a week after allowing them to introduce wiretap evidence. The former McKinsey & Co boss and Goldman Sachs director hasn’t put on his defence yet. But he’ll need some breaks soon if he’s going to beat the insider trading rap.
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