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Amid a Shake-Up, JPMorgan's Risk Officer Takes a Leave
New York Times
JPMorgan Chase has continued to reshuffle its executive ranks and strengthen oversight as it works to appease regulators and reassure skittish investors. JPMorgan, the nation's largest bank, said Friday that its chief risk officer, John Hogan, would take a ...
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Court Overturns EPA's Biofuels Mandate
New York Times
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court threw out a federal rule on renewable fuels on Friday, saying that a quota set by the Environmental Protection Agency for incorporating liquids made from woody crops and wastes into car and truck fuels was based on ...
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Chet Pipkin: The Wealthiest Tech Entrepreneur You've Never Heard Of
Forbes
Belkin International, a private company based in Playa Vista, Calif., that makes computer and smart phone accessories, announced on Thursday that it has agreed to buy Cisco's Home Business Networking group including its Linksys brand for an undisclosed ...
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Forbes
Grinch steals Hasbro's holiday sales
MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — It looks like the new Furby didn't manage to beat the Grinch and save Hasbro Inc.'s holiday season, as the No. 2 toy maker warned of disappointing fourth-quarter sales and full-year profit on Friday. Hasbro (US:HAS) also said it's ...
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Con Edison Seeks to Raise Power Rates, Plans Storm Spending
Businessweek
Consolidated Edison Inc. (ED), owner of the utility that supplies power to New York City, asked state regulators to approve rate increases to help fund $1 billion in investments to protect the power network after Hurricane Sandy. Under a proposal submitted to ...
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Fast & Furious Uproar Forces DOJ Division Chief to Resign
Fox News
A high-ranking member of the U.S. Department of Justice plans to resign from his post in the wake of the controversy surrounding the bungled Fast & Furious gun running operation. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa ...
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December new U.S. home sales fall 7.3%
MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Sales of new single-family homes fell in December, while less volatile longer-term trends showed continued improvement, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Sales of new single-family ...
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UPDATE 1-Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman's pay falls by $10 million
Reuters
Fri Jan 25, 2013 8:15pm EST. Jan 25 (Reuters) - Viacom Inc, parent of cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon and movie studio Paramount Pictures, paid Chief Executive Philippe Dauman about $10 million less in 2012 than a year earlier, a regulatory filing ...
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Nuclear commission pushes back decision on San Onofre
Los Angeles Times
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has pushed back the date when it could make a decision on the fate of the San Onofre nuclear plant. The plant has been shut down for nearly a year because of issues with unusual wear on its steam generator tubes, ...
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Global drilling lifts Halliburton out of domestic mire
Reuters
By Braden Reddall. Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:50am EST. (Reuters) - Haliburton Co's (HAL.N) overseas business lifted fourth-quarter earnings above expectations, belying how tough the market is for North American oilfield services due to the glut of natural gas.
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The jobs numbers have been terrific lately. Can we believe them?
Washington Post (blog)
Lately, we've been getting some genuinely encouraging news on the jobs front. For the past two weeks, the number of initial unemployment claims has been plummeting. A lot. Does that mean the U.S. labor market is rapidly improving? Or is it all just a ...
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4 key takeaways from Ackman vs. Icahn rumble
MarketWatch (blog)
A live discussion on the merits of Herbalife /quotes/zigman/361145 /quotes/nls/hlf HLF on CNBC between Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn on Friday soon deteriorated into a verbal wrestling match as two wealthy hedge fund titans exchanged insults and resorted ...
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American Airlines employees to get fresh look
Dallas Morning News
What do Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Anne Hathaway and American Airlines flight attendants have in common? Right now, nothing. But in the not-too-distant future, the flight attendants can say that they, too, have been dressed by fashion designers Isaac Franco ...
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Dallas Morning News
Keith Rabois quit Square - lawsuit threat
San Francisco Chronicle
The abrupt resignation of one of Square's top executives took a surprising twist Friday when he and the San Francisco mobile payment company revealed he quit because he'd had an affair with an employee who threatened to file a sexual harassment lawsuit ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Hedge-Fund Outlook: Better for Institutions
Barron's
Institutional investors are making up the bulk of the new money in hedge funds and are fast becoming the dominant players in the industry. Estimates put institutional money at 60% of hedge-fund assets today. Article; Comments. Email; Print; Reprints ...
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Geithner legacy: Bailout that helped save economy
HeraldNet
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sat around a conference room table with his advisers as they relayed the concerns of banks protesting President Obama's push for new rules for Wall Street. Geithner, widely thought to be a friend of the ...
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Low-income workers may receive tax credit
Sacramento Bee
Low-income workers got a friendly reminder from the IRS on Friday: You could be eligible for up to $5,800 in refundable tax credits. Known as the "Earned Income Tax Credit," it's intended to help low-to-moderate-income workers who earned up to $50,270 in ...
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Japan's ANA cancels more Dreamliner flights; no quick fix in sight
Reuters
By Leika Kihara. TOKYO | Sat Jan 26, 2013 3:58am EST. TOKYO (Reuters) - All Nippon Airways Co, which has the biggest fleet of Boeing Co's troubled Dreamliner jets, on Saturday cancelled hundreds of flights until February 18, signaling a quick fix to the ...
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Compuware rejects offer to sell company for $2.3B
The Detroit News
Compuware said it will sign a nondisclosure agreement with Elliott Management Corp. so the two sides can talk about a follow-up offer. (Paul Sancya / Associated Press). Compuware Corp. rejected an offer Friday by a New York hedge fund to buy the ...
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BATS revises down number of mispriced trades
Financial Times
The third-largest US stock exchange operator by volume confirmed in an email to the Financial Times that only 12,000 trades over the past four years may have contravened US securities law and been executed at inferior market prices.
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SandRidge: No Wrongdoing Found in Corporate Dealings
Rigzone
SandRidge Energy's board of directors found no evidence of wrongdoing in relation to allegations made concerning activities of its Chairman and CEO Tom Ward and the company board's oversight, SandRidge reported Friday. However, the board will ...
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Rigzone
Fracking's Other Danger: Radiation
StateImpact Pennsylvania
A worker breaks apart a brick of solid material left over from treating frack water. The solid material, which may contain radioactive elements, gets disposed of in landfills. On Thursday, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced ...
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Copper & 'Robbers'
New York Post
Fifteen LIRR workers were charged yesterday with stealing more than $250,000 worth of copper wire from train yards and selling it for scrap. In the latest LIRR embarrassment, three assistant foremen — Leroy Simmonds, Andrew Burke and Eric Axelson ...
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New York Post
No wing shortage, but prices are up
Delaware County Daily Times
If you're planning on ordering or cooking wings for a big Super Bowl party next Sunday, it's best if you don't, well, wing it. While there have been rumors of a shortage of chicken wings for the biggest weekend of wing consumption of the year, and we're not just ...
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Treasuries Fall Most Since Start of Year as Refuge Demand Eases
Bloomberg
Treasury 10-year note yields rose the most since the first week of the year as the European Central Bank said banks will repay more of its loans than forecast and a strengthening housing market reduced the haven appeal of U.S. government debt.
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Dealpolitik: Why It's Hard to Successfully Sue Your Banker
Wall Street Journal (blog)
On Wednesday, a jury in Boston found that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. had no liability to the owners of its former client, Dragon Systems. Goldman had advised closely held Dragon on its approximately $600 million sale to Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products ...
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Wall Street Week Ahead: Bears hibernate as stocks near record highs
Reuters
By Ryan Vlastelica. NEW YORK | Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:43pm EST. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks have been on a tear in January, moving major indexes within striking distance of all-time highs. The bearish case is a difficult one to make right now. Earnings have ...
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Twinkies are poised to make a comeback
Bend Bulletin
The last Twinkies rolled out of Hostess factories in November. But the iconic brand appears to be making a comeback. Eleven companies have submitted bids to acquire the Hostess cake brands, which include Twinkies, out of the bankruptcy process, ...
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Volvo truck to pair with China's Dongfeng
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish truck maker AB Volvo says it will acquire a 45 percent stake in a new heavy-truck unit of China's Dongfeng Motor Group Co. for a total amount of 5.6 billion yuan ($890 million). Volvo CEO Olof Persson says the move to buy the ...
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Blogs13 new results for Finance
 
Is Apple the New Microsoft? | Breakout - Yahoo! Finance
From the blog Breakout: As all 7 billion people on earth know, Apple (AAPL) tanked this past week after the company's holiday quarter and guidance fell short of expectations. No need to rehash the misery. The only question now is whether ...
Yahoo! Finance: Breakout
Appeals Court Ruling May Nullify Consumer Finance Protection ...
By Yves Smith
A ruling by the Washington, DC federal appeals court in Noel Canning v. NLRB pretty much ends the ability of presidents to make recess appointments, a measure that has been used since 1867. The suit successfully challenged a NLRB ...
naked capitalism
Debunking the personal finance gurus - Fortune Features
By Fortune Editors
In her new book, Pound Foolish, Helaine Olen tears the stuffing out of the U.S. personal finance industry. By Scott Cendrowski, writer FORTUNE -- Managing your own retirement money stinks. I'm decades away from retirement, but every ...
FORTUNE Features
Making the case for negative interest rates - Fortune Finance: Hedge ...
By Fortune Editors
Former Fed official Alan Blinder talks about how to fix the economy, where the next crisis will come from, and how scared investors should be. By Allan Dodds Frank Alan Blinder FORTUNE -- The nation's biggest banks have.
Fortune Finance: Hedge Funds,...
P.E.I. finance minister pushes balanced budget to 2016 | iPolitics
By Canadian Press
CHARLOTTETOWN – Prince Edward Island's finance minister says he'll have to cut an additional $30 million in spending this year to balance the province's budget by 2015. The cuts would be on top of expenditure cuts already scheduled for ...
iPolitics
New Democrat Party Finance Chief dined with Fidel Castro | Babalú ...
By Alberto de la Cruz
And people still wonder why Cuban Americans tend to be Republicans. Via the Weekly Standard: New Dem. Finance Chief Dined With Fidel Castro Politico.
Babalú Blog
Finance Minister Penny Wong, who is gay, said the candidates ...
By sheikyermami
The Latest From Winds Of Jihad: Finance Minister Penny Wong, who is gay, said the candidates' comments were bigoted and "don't reflect the values that the vast majority of Australians have". The Purge Continues: Obama Fires Marine ...
Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
Finance& Commerce Week in Review (Jan. 19-25) | Finance...
By Finance and Commerce Staff
Finance& Commerce Week in Review (Jan. 19-25) (access required). Posted: 12:26 pm Fri, January 25, 2013. By Finance and Commerce Staff 12:26 pm Fri, January 25, 2013. A look at the week's top stories.
Finance & Commerce
Magic, maths and money: Why some physicists shouldn't do finance
By Tim Johnson
However, just under a third of the paper, the section entitled Potential causes of an initial shock focuses on a paper, Eroding market stability by proliferation of financial instruments written by three physicists, Caccioli, Marsili and Vivo, and ...
Magic, maths and money
Dual Canadian-U.S. citizens can conquer tax ... - Financial Post
By Andrew Allentuck
These successful U.S. citizens living in Canada need to build up their RRSPs and protect them from taxes in the United States. Here's how they can do it.
Financial Post - Family Finance
Green Deal finance customers could face interest rates over nine ...
Customers taking out loans from The Green Deal Finance Company (TGDFC) could be paying an interest rate of more than nine per cent. - Utility Week news centre.
Utility Week - Latest News
Personal Finance Daily: Will mortgage brokers go out of business ...
New regulations set to go into effect next year could put some brokers out of business and make shopping for a mortgage more difficult for consumers. Also in today's Personal Finance Daily, Charles Passy assesses the value of a $2,400 puffy ...
eWallstreeter
Interview with former finance minister Péter Oszkó | The Budapest ...
By Peter Bognar
Péter Oszkó, who was finance minister in the Socialist-backed interim government of 2009-10, spoke to The Budapest Times about what he describes as the short-sighted populism of the government, the reasons for the country's crisis and the ...
The Budapest Times

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President Obama names 'cops' for finance - Zachary Warmbrodt and ...
President Barack Obama is taking an aggressive posture toward Wall Street as he kicks off his second term and is showing little interest in compromising with ...
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Worcester lawyers in finance probe - Worcester Telegram & Gazette ...
Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray is not the only Central Massachusetts figure caught up in the attorney general's investigation of possible criminal violations of the ...
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