Finance
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Peregrine receiver can identify, secure Wasendorf assetsJul 20, 2012 10:17 am - The receiver for Peregrine Financial Group Inc., hired on request of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission that is investigating missing customer money, was give...
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Capital One repays consumers to end card probeJul 18, 2012 11:47 am - WASHINGTON — Capital One Bank will pay $210 million to settle federal charges that it tricked credit card customers into buying costly add-on services like payment prote...
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Bernanke offers no hints of imminent Fed actionJul 17, 2012 9:38 am - WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy has weakened and the Federal Reserve is ready to take further action to bolster growth if conditions don’t improve, Chairman Ben Bernanke t...
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Citigroup beats analysts’ estimates on investment bankingJul 16, 2012 10:21 am - Citigroup Inc., the third-biggest U.S. bank, reported second-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates on revenue from advising on mergers and underwriting stocks and...
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JPMorgan probe distances bank from trades, gives U.S. road mapJul 16, 2012 6:00 am - JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s claim that it found possible employee intent to misprice trades in a unit that lost $5.8 billion may put distance between management and any wrong...
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Six health insurance tips for young peopleJul 14, 2012 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — They're young, healthy and flat broke — and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars' worth of medical insurance. What should tapped-ou...
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Emerging market bonds: 4 things you need to knowJul 14, 2012 11:00 pm - BOSTON — Investors continue to pour their money into bonds. And the decline in the stock market this month certainly won't stem their flight to safer investments. Yet th...
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Parents face choice on cards for college kidsJul 14, 2012 11:00 pm - Parents of college-bound students have a decision to make as offers stream in for their soon-to-depart teenagers. Should they send their green freshmen off to campus arm...
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Senate Democrats offer alternative tax planJul 14, 2012 8:41 pm - Senate Democrats are seeking to set the top tax rate on dividends at 23.8 percent, almost 20 percentage points lower than the proposal offered by President Barack Obama ...
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Analysts to cut Britain’s GDP forecastJul 14, 2012 8:38 pm - The U.K. economy won’t grow this year as damage from the euro-area debt crisis overshadows a pickup in consumer spending in the second half, the Ernst & Young Item Club ...