Cheap cigars, politics and the Volcker Rule KUAR James Wolfensohn, the former World Bank president and a longtime friend who took on Volcker as a business partner after he left the Fed, said Volcker never ...
Glance-FTSE supported by telecos, BSkyB; mixed US data Interactive Investor Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group , Barclays added 2.4-5 percent. But global banking heavyweight HSBC missed out, falling 1.5 percent with ...
Biotechs Continue IPO March, Without Banging The Drums Wall Street Journal (blog) Aveo, which lost $44.1 million in 2009, up from $32.5 million in 2008, needs to get a financing done to solidify its business. Citing an accounting firm ...
FTSE finishes on bright note BreakingNews.ie Part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group led the sector's gains, as they were also reported to be among those lined up to handle a ...
Budget gap seen hitting P330B in 2010 Inquirer.net In a separate report, Singapore-based DBS Bank said that while January data hardly meant anything for gauging if full-year budget plans were on track, ...
The Live Fix with Chris Cillizza Washington Post What Republicans are banking on is that public opinion, which has hardened in opposition to the bill in the last six months of or so, won't change in any ...
Obama to tap Yellen as Fed vice-chairman Financial Times The Obama administration is set to nominate Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, as vice-chair of the central bank, ...
Cheap cigars, politics and the Volcker Rule stv.tv Chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board Paul Volcker arrives to testify before the US Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ...
Seeds of Strange: Beckistan invades Kunstlerland! Huffington Post (blog) Glenn Beck's latest sponsor, The Survival Seed Bank, is banking on Tea Party paranoia to sell a product it calls the "Full Acre Crisis Garden. ...
European close: Mixed end to choppy week ShareCast ... Volkswagen were going well, while Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas were the best performing banking shares. ...
Yellen called leading contender for Fed vice chair Reuters ... the central bank, a senior administration official said on Friday. Sarah Raskin, the top banking regulator for the state of Maryland, and Peter Diamond, ...
Cheap cigars, politics and the Volcker Rule Portfolio.com Misconceptions remain -- some commentators claim that Volcker is calling for a return to very narrow retail banking by commercial banks, whereas the rule ...
Obama Plans for Open Fed Seats Become Clearer Wall Street Journal Still, she could face some tough questions over whether the San Francisco Fed acted aggressively enough to quell reckless banking on the West Coast, ...
