Finance
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UK regulator outlines LIBOR overhaulSep 28, 2012 11:31 am - LONDON — Britain’s financial regulator on Friday laid out a 10-point plan to overhaul the handling of a key global interest rate that has been the subject of a scandal i...
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Bank of America to pay $2.43B in settlementSep 28, 2012 10:50 am - NEW YORK — Bank of America says it has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit related to its acquisition of Merrill Lynch at the height of the fina...
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Geithner urges regulators to press SEC on money-market overhaulSep 27, 2012 4:32 pm - Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner urged a council of regulators to recommend that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission tighten rules on money- market mutual ...
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Discover shares soar as profit beats estimatesSep 27, 2012 4:09 pm - Discover Financial Services gained the most in more than a year after the credit-card lender posted a fiscal third-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates on fewer ...
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Goldman Sachs to pay $14.4 Million to settle political casesSep 27, 2012 1:16 pm - Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will pay $14.4 million to resolve regulatory claims that a former banker made improper campaign contributions to the treasurer of Massachusetts ...
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6 steps to size up your overseas retirement planSep 23, 2012 7:14 am - LOS ANGELES — Like many Gen-Xers, my present outlook on retirement falls somewhere between doom and gloom. I fear a stock market collapse could decimate my investments a...
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Isham elected chairman of Baytree National bank boardSep 20, 2012 9:21 am - PRNewswire Robert T. Isham, Jr., was elected Chairman of the Board of Baytree National Bank and Trust Co, a unit of EB Financial Group, Inc. He succeeds Willard Bunn III...
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Broadest US trade deficit fell in Q2 to $117.4 billionSep 18, 2012 11:47 am - WASHINGTON — The U.S. current account trade deficit narrowed in the April-June period, pushed lower by an increase in American exports and cheaper oil imports. The Comme...
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7 things worth knowing about reward credit cardsSep 15, 2012 11:00 pm - This has truly been a golden era for credit card rewards programs. Card issuers have been dangling rich offers of points, miles and cash back for the past year and a hal...
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Spain anti-austerity march draws tens of thousandsSep 15, 2012 6:54 pm - MADRID — Tens of thousands of people from all over Spain rallied in the capital Saturday against punishing austerity measures enacted by the government, which is trying ...