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Stanley Sees Fed Raising Key Rate to 3% by End 2010 (Update1)

BusinessWeek Investment News - Tue, 2038-01-19 03:14
The Federal Reserve will have to raise its benchmark interest rate to 3 percent by the end of the year to combat inflation, said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at RBS Securities Inc. in New York.
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Citigroup, Marshall & Ilsley Post Biggest S&P Drops (Update2)

BusinessWeek Investment News - Tue, 2038-01-19 03:14
Citigroup Inc. and Marshall & Ilsley Corp. were among the worst performing stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index this year, dragged down by souring commercial and residential property loans that may extend the declines into 2010.
Categories: investments

Japan Air Plunges Amid Bankruptcy Fears

BusinessWeek Investment News - Tue, 2038-01-19 03:14
Japan Airlines Corp., Asia’s biggest carrier by sales, plunged to a record in Tokyo trading after reports the carrier may enter bankruptcy proceedings led investors to sell shares on the year’s last trading day.
Categories: investments

GMAC Said to Discuss $3 Billion or More in U.S. Aid

BusinessWeek Investment News - Tue, 2038-01-19 03:14
GMAC, the home and auto lender that counts the U.S. government as the largest stakeholder, is discussing with the Obama administration a third bailout of $3 billion to $4 billion
Categories: investments

Biggs, Faber Predict Dollar Rally as S&P 500 Surges

BusinessWeek Investment News - Tue, 2038-01-19 03:14
Barton Biggs and Marc Faber, who recommended buying stocks in March when investors were dumping them, are again united as they predict gains for U.S. equities and the dollar
Categories: investments

Treasuries Little Changed After $42 Billion 5-Year Note Sale

BusinessWeek Investment News - Tue, 2038-01-19 03:14
Treasuries were little changed after the government sold a record-tying $42 billion of five-year debt, the second of three note sales this week totaling $118 billion.
Categories: investments

SEC Suit: Sanofi Bid for Chattem Leaked to French Investors

BusinessWeek Investment News - Tue, 2038-01-19 03:14
Sanofi-Aventis SA’s $1.9 billion bid for Chattem was leaked in advance to two French investors who reaped $4.2 million by making illegal insider trades, U.S. regulators claim in a lawsuit
Categories: investments

German Push to Delay Basel Rules Hits U.S. Opposition

BusinessWeek Investment News - 4 hours 38 min ago
U.S. and German regulators are fighting over how much time to give banks to comply with new capital ratios being pushed to prevent future financial crises.
Categories: investments

Junk Debt ‘Best Bet’ as Issuance Nears Record: Credit Markets

BusinessWeek Investment News - 4 hours 38 min ago
Global high-yield bond sales are poised to exceed 2009’s record issuance as the riskiest companies take advantage of plunging borrowing costs and investor demand to refinance debt.
Categories: investments

European Stocks Slip From Four-Month High; Deutsche Bank Falls

BusinessWeek Investment News - 4 hours 41 min ago
European stocks fell from a four- month high, trimming their second weekly advance, as concern that a share sale by Deutsche Bank AG may foreshadow more capital raising by lenders overshadowed gains by automakers.
Categories: investments

Obama Taps Goolsbee to Lead White House Economy Panel

BusinessWeek Investment News - 4 hours 57 min ago
President Barack Obama said he’s appointing Austan Goolsbee to lead the Council of Economic Advisers, calling him “one of the finest economists in the country.”
Categories: investments

Stock Picks: DirecTV, Nokia, Omnicom

BusinessWeek Investment News - 5 hours 3 min ago
Wall Street analysts offer buy, sell, or hold opinions on stocks in the news on Sept. 10
Categories: investments

U.S. Stocks Climb as Inventories Rise

BusinessWeek Investment News - 5 hours 35 min ago
Higher-than-forecast wholesale inventories, an increased growth estimate in Japan and surging imports of oil in China boosted optimism for the global economy
Categories: investments

Goldman Sees Record ‘Wall of Money’ Flooding Emerging Markets

BusinessWeek Investment News - 5 hours 50 min ago
Net capital inflows into emerging market economies are running at record levels, pushing up asset prices and raising the risk governments may impose capital controls, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a research report today.
Categories: investments

SEC probing certain investment advisory firms: report

Reuters Business News - 7 hours 21 sec ago
BANGALORE (Reuters) - The securities regulator is investigating investment advisory firms that channel investors' money into hedge funds, the Wall Street Journal reported.


Categories: business

Energy to lead Wall Street higher, semis eyed

Reuters Business News - 7 hours 5 min ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were set to rise at the open on Friday after posting gains in six of the last seven sessions, buoyed by a jump in crude oil prices.


Categories: business

Medvedev rebuffs criticism of Russian democracy

Reuters World News - 7 hours 12 min ago
YAROSLAVL, Russia (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev rebuffed accusations of democratic backsliding on Friday and said trying to experiment with a parliamentary democracy would be a catastrophe for Russia.
Categories: world

Swedish far right eyes first parliament seats

Reuters World News - 7 hours 17 min ago
LANDSKRONA, Sweden (Reuters) - In Sweden's last general election, a surge in voter support for an anti-immigrant party in this small, southern coastal town shocked a nation long regarded as one of the world's most liberal.
Categories: world

Oil rises to over $75 on U.S. supply outage

Reuters Business News - 7 hours 29 min ago
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. crude rose more than $1 to over $75 on Friday due to the shutdown of a major pipeline, but a leading forecaster said demand would remain tepid.


Categories: business

Nokia brings in Microsoft exec to replace CEO

Reuters Business News - 7 hours 37 min ago
HELSINKI/LONDON (Reuters) - Nokia has hired Stephen Elop, a Canadian Microsoft executive of Silicon Valley pedigree, to replace its embattled chief executive and renew its drive to compete with Apple.


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