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| Forsee: WiMaxed Out |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Forsee, Wimaxed, Out, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Gary Forsee, Jean Marie Messier, Philip Cusick, Vivendi Sa, Wall Street, At Amp T Inc, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Verizon Communications Inc, Hollywood, Miami Beach, Mike Nelson, Patrick Comack, Reston, United States |
| Perhaps someday, WiMax will be the key to turning around Sprint Nextel, the beleaguered Reston cellphone company. Perhaps someday, consumers will walk and drive across the country, enjoying uninterrupted, high-speed Internet service, watching video, e-mailing and talking on the phone over the Web... |
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| Hedge Fund to Pay $8.2 Million In SEC Short-Sale Settlement |
| Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Hedge, Fund, Pay, 8 2, Million, Sec, Short Sale, Settlement, Thomas E Sandell, U S Securities Exchange Commission, Capital One Financial Corporation, Sandell Asset Management Corp, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Christopher Cox, New Orleans, Scott W Friestad, New York |
| Sandell Asset Management and its founder are to pay $8.2 million to settle claims that the hedge-fund firm improperly sold a New Orleans bank's shares short after Hurricane Katrina. |
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| A Newly Opened Investment Tax Gift |
| Published: November 27, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Newly, Opened, Investment, Tax, Gift, Barclays Plc, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, David Hariton, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Fortune Magazine, Lehman Brothers Inc, Allan Sloan, Andrew Desouza, Robert Willens, U S Department Of The Treasury, U S House Committee On Ways And Me |
| Thanksgiving has just passed; the year-end holidays are around the corner. So in the spirit of the season, I've got a gift for you. Sort of. It's not spiritual or religious, and doesn't even involve food. It's about money. To be specific, it's a way that average investors may one day be able to... |
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| SEC Votes to Limit Shareholder Rights |
| Published: November 29, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Sec, Votes, Limit, Shareholder, Rights, Christopher Cox, U S Securities And Exchange Commission, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Jp Morgan Chase Amp Co, Ann Yerger, Annette Nazareth, Barney Frank, John Castellani, Richard Ferlauto, Roel Campos, American Federation Of State |
| Companies will be able to scuttle investor attempts to nominate board members under a plan adopted by a bitterly divided Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday. |
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| Fears About Economy Increase |
| Published: January 12, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Fears, About, Economy, Increase, Countrywide Financial Corporation, United States, China, Bank Of America Corporation, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, Henry M Paulson, Citigroup Inc, Carlos Gutierrez, Joe Brusuelas, American Express Company, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Dow Jones |
| Major banks and mortgage companies yesterday sharply accelerated an industry consolidation that is set to change the landscape of American lending, while a convergence of events exposed fresh worries about the U.S. economy. |
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| A Growing Foreign Stake in U.S. Banks |
| Published: January 16, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Growing, Foreign, Stake, U S, Banks, United States, Wall Street, Richard Shelby, Dubai, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Asia, China, Norway, Singapore, Alabama, The Blackstone Group Lp, Barneys New York Inc, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Chrysler Holding Llc, Citigroup Inc |
| The nation's biggest financial firms, battered by huge losses in their mortgage businesses, are relying on an enigmatic source for cash: foreign governments in the Middle East and Asia. |
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| Over an Insurance Barrel |
| Published: January 25, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Over, Insurance, Barrel, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Maryland, Citigroup Inc, Credit Agricole Sa, Enron Corporation, Lehman Brothers Inc, Mci Inc, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, Societe Generale Sa, Baltimore, Steven Pearlstein, Wall Street, Wilbur Ross, U S Federal Reserve |
| Imagine that you buy a house with mostly borrowed money -- a mortgage -- and the lender insists that you take out fire insurance to protect your house and his collateral. |
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| Weak Dollar Fuels China's Buying Spree Of U.S. Firms |
| Published: January 28, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Weak, Dollar, Fuels, China S, Buying, Spree, U S, Firms, South Carolina, United States, China, Pennsylvania, North America, Morgan Stanley, Dick Adams, Richard Lovely, Spartanburg, Wenzhou, Canada, California, Hawaii, The Blackstone Group Lp, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, China I |
| SHANGHAI -- From his posh office in a coastal city in eastern China, millionaire Zhou Jiaru oversees more than 100 workers at an auto parts refurbishing factory he purchased in a struggling manufacturing town on the other side of the world. |
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| Economic Downturn Emboldens Shareholder Activists |
| Published: February 19, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Economic, Downturn, Emboldens, Shareholder, Activists, Beazer Homes Usa Inc, Citigroup Inc, U S Securities And Exchange Commission, Washington Mutual Inc, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Ctw Investment Group, Wall Street, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, Standard Amp Poor S, The Ryl |
| NEW YORK -- Investor groups angered by plunging stock prices are vowing to hold executives and corporate board members accountable at annual shareholder meetings this spring, turning up the pressure on U.S. companies already reeling from the credit crunch. |
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| Stocks Surge as Fed Offers A Boost |
| Published: March 12, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Stocks, Surge, Fed, Offers, Boost, U S Federal Reserve, Wall Street, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Holdings, Lehman Brothers Inc, Dow Jones Amp Co Inc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Robert W Baird Amp Co Inc, Standard Amp Poor S, The Carlyle Group Llc |
| NEW YORK, March 11 -- The Federal Reserve took bold action Tuesday to revive the economy's ossified credit markets by offering to take over the risk of spurned mortgage securities, igniting a rally on Wall Street that sent stocks to their best performance in five years. |
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| Clinton Unveils Plan to Ease Housing Crisis |
| Published: March 25, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Clinton, Unveils, Plan, Ease, Housing, Crisis, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, West Virginia, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Nbc Universal Inc, Newsweek Inc, The Wall Street Journal, Alan Greenspan, Barney Fra |
| PHILADELPHIA, March 24 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sought on Monday to pitch herself as the remedy to the nation's housing crisis, a claim that drew an aggressive pushback from Sen. Barack Obama's campaign as the two candidates continued to wrestle for the upper hand on the issue of the economy. |
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| Both Obama And Clinton Embellish Their Roles |
| Published: March 24, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Both, Obama, And, Clinton, Embellish, Their, Roles, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Christopher Dodd, John F Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Arlen Specter, The White House, Chris Jennings, Capitol Hill, Gregory B Craig, Orrin Hatch, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Utah, Bear Stearns Amp Co I |
| After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the "President's Room," just off the Senate chamber, with a deal on new immigration policy. |
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| Wall Street Crisis Forces Candidates to Shift Their Focus |
| Published: March 18, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Wall, Street, Crisis, Forces, Candidates, Shift, Their, Focus, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Wall Street, John Mccain, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Barney Frank, George W Bush, Jason Furman, U S Federal Reserve, Arizona, Jp Morgan Chase Amp Co, Ben Bernanke, Capitol Hil |
| The contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination raced to inject themselves into the debate over the credit and housing crisis yesterday, slamming the Bush administration's failure to do more to avoid a crisis as the economy once again surged to the forefront of the campaign. |
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| Senators Agree to Make Deal On Housing |
| Published: April 2, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Senators, Agree, Make, Deal, Housing, George W Bush, Johnny Isakson, Christopher Dodd, Federal Housing Administration, Alabama, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Barney Frank, Charles Schumer, Harry Reid, Jim Bunning, John Cornyn, Richard Shelby, The White House, Wall Street |
| Under pressure from voters to address the nation's housing crisis, Senate Republicans agreed yesterday to work with Democrats on a compromise plan to stimulate sagging home sales and help distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure. |
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| Tricky Votes Loom For 3 Candidates |
| Published: April 1, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Tricky, Votes, Loom, For, Candidates, John Mccain, David Petraeus, Iraq, George W Bush, Barney Frank, John Cornyn, John Kerry, Rahm Emanuel, U S Republican Party, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Barack Obama, Capitol Hill, Christopher Dodd, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Robert G G |
| With Congress returning today after a two-week break, leaders from both parties are preparing legislative agendas -- on issues including the economy, Iraq and immigration -- designed to present the three remaining White House candidates with dangerous political choices. |
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