Volcker Rule Is Giving Big Banks Headaches
Curiosity is growing about which Wall Street banks will be the first to get out of proprietary trading or the private equity business as they restructure to come into compliance with new financial...
View ArticleReal Estate Bonds More Attractive to Investors
Goldman Sachs and Citigroup are in the process of trying to sell their fourth CMBS package in 2010 with $788 million of debt from 48 properties as investor interest in these vehicles rekindles....
View ArticleFederal Reserve Comes Clean on Who Received Bailout Money
At the instruction of Congress, the Federal Reserve has released the names of the approximately 21,000 recipients of $3.3 trillion in aid provided during the financial meltdown –without doubt the...
View ArticleGovernment Looking to Require CMBS Insurance
President Barack Obama is proposing an option to create an insurance fund for mortgage-backed securities, similar to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that protects Americans savings accounts....
View ArticlePotential Facebook IPO Could Value Company at $100 Billion
Facebook is likely to file for an initial public offering (IPO) as early as October or November that could value the popular social networking site at more than a whopping $100 billion. Goldman Sachs...
View ArticleWarren Buffet Bullish on U.S. Credit Rating
Standard & Poor’s may have downgraded the United States credit rating from AAA to AA+ and the bears may have taken over Wall Street, but the Berkshire Hathaway chairman and billionaire Warren...
View ArticleEconomy Reaches Stall Speed
The American economy expanded at a snail’s pace of just 1.3 percent in the 2nd quarter, according to a report from the Department of Commerce. Growth in the first three months of 2011 was reduced to...
View ArticleFederal Reserve Asks for Comments Before Implementing the Volcker Rule
Federal regulators have requested public comment on the Volcker Rule — the Dodd-Frank Act restrictions that would ban American banks from making short-term trades of financial instruments for their...
View ArticleBeware: Double Dip Ahead?
The 17-nation Eurozone is at risk of falling into a “severe recession,” the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned, as it called on governments and the European Central...
View ArticleKeen for ’14
The nation’s CEOs are bullish about their prospects for the new year, according to annual PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of more than 1,300 chief executives, which was released on Wednesday. A full 39...
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