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Today's Fresh Blogs...| 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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| Capital One Reports Loss From Closing Mortgage Unit |
| Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Capital, One, Reports, Loss, From, Closing, Mortgage, Unit, Capital One Financial Corporation, Richard Fairbank, Economy Com Inc, Stifel Nicolaus Amp Co Inc, The Thomson Corporation, Christopher Brender, Mclean Virginia, Scott Hoyt |
| Capital One Financial of McLean posted its first quarterly loss ever, from the expense of shutting down its mortgage lender, and warned of additional challenges in the credit card and auto finance businesses. |
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| Sallie Mae Bonuses Linked To Buyout |
| Published: November 5, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Sallie, Mae, Bonuses, Linked, Buyout, Capital One Financial Corporation, Sallie Mae Inc, Richard Fairbank, C E Andrews, Julie Rakes, Thomas J Fitzpatrick, Tom Joyce, U S Securities And Exchange Commission, Delaware, Louisiana, Texas, J C Flowers Amp Co Llc, North Fork |
| Bonuses for several hundred Sallie Mae managers are linked to whether the company closes its $25.3 billion sale to buyout firm J.C. Flowers, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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| Capital One Stock Suffers |
| Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Capital, One, Stock, Suffers, Capital One Financial Corporation, Peter Schnall, Michael Tarsala, U S Securities And Exchange Commission, Louisiana, Texas, Citigroup Inc, Friedman Billings Ramsey Group Inc, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, Morgan Stanley, North Fork Bancorpora |
| Shares of Capital One Financial have taken a beating this week as analysts cast a more pessimistic eye on the company's outlook for further losses in its lending portfolio. |
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| Firms Fight Back in Site Name Game |
| Published: December 1, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Firms, Fight, Back, Site, Name, Game, The Walt Disney Company, Michael Patalano, Enrico Schaefer, Verisign Inc, Wal Mart Stores Inc, Michigan, Capital One Financial Corporation, Cyveillance Inc, Disney Enterprises Inc, Domains By Proxy Inc, Google Inc, Markmonitor Inc |
| What's in a name? Maybe a business strategy. Michael Patalano, college student and Disney fanatic, likes guessing what his favorite company is up to by tracking which Web sites Disney Enterprises registers. |
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| Shining a Light on Card Fees |
| Published: December 2, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Shining, Light, Card, Fees, Carl Levin, Dennis Kocik, U S Federal Reserve, Andrew Cuomo, Capitol Hill, Jonathan Orszag, Ken Clayton, American Bankers Association, Virginia, Capital One Financial Corporation, Jp Morgan Chase Amp Co, Beltsville, Benjamin Lawsky, Bill C |
| Senior Democrats on Capitol Hill want to ban excessive credit card fees. Bank regulators are on the verge of forcing companies to give more notice before raising interest rates. And New York's attorney general, whose investigations transformed the student loan industry, now has his eye on conflic... |
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| We're Not Immune |
| Published: January 4, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: We Re, Not, Immune, Steve Fuller, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Kansas, Aol Llc, Caci International Inc, Capital One Financial Corporation, Ciena Corporation, Dyncorp International Llc, Economy Com Inc, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Holdings, Friedman Billings Ramsey Group Inc |
| Next Friday in Tysons Corner, Steve Fuller and his colleagues from George Mason University will release their annual outlook for the Washington area economy. The title of this year's confab: |
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| Emergency Alert System Uses Cellphones in Specific Areas |
| Published: January 7, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Emergency, Alert, System, Uses, Cellphones, Specific, Areas, Richmond, Tom Stroup, Arlington, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Washington Dc, Capital One Financial Corporation, Cooper Industries Ltd, Bruce Lee, Houston, Leesburg, Nigel Morris, Raul Fernandez, Reston, Contra Cos |
| A year ago, a fire broke out in one of the five oil refineries in Contra Costa County in Northern California, spewing fumes into the air in Richmond. |
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| Fed Chief Talks of 'Decisive' Action |
| Published: January 11, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Fed, Chief, Talks, Decisive, Action, Ben Bernanke, U S Federal Reserve, American Express Company, Capital One Financial Corporation, Robert Rubin, California, Florida, Jp Morgan Chase Amp Co, Lehman Brothers Inc, Mayflower Hotel, Alice Rivlin, Bruce C Kasman, Douglas W |
| Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke yesterday signaled that the central bank will cut interest rates aggressively to try to prevent a serious economic downturn, using unusually direct and forceful language. |
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| Intelligence Factor |
| Published: May 12, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Intelligence, Factor, Matt Schuyler, Steve Jobs, Capital One Financial Corporation, Apple Inc, Arlington, Bethesda, David Rodriguez, Nick Connolly, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc, Fortune Magazine, Marriott International Inc, The Corporate Executive Board Company, U S Census |
| Our region does not have a lot of factory jobs. We don't make ketchup. We don't make toilet paper. We don't make steel. Our business, without sounding too pompous, is largely ideas and the execution of them, whether they are moved around town in legal briefs or a consultant's briefcase. |
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| Capital One's Profit Plunges 40 Percent |
| Published: July 18, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Capital, One S, Profit, Plunges, Percent, Virginia Commerce, Capital One Financial Corporation, Northern Virginia, Baltimore, Peter A Converse, Bb Amp T Corporation, Mclean Virginia, Arlington, Christopher Brendler, Gary Perlin, Prince William County, Richard Fairbank |
| Capital One, one of the nation's largest credit card companies, said yesterday that profit in the second quarter fell by 40 percent and it warned that more customers are defaulting on their loans. |
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| Economy Shows New Signs Of Stress |
| Published: October 25, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Economy, Shows, New, Signs, Stress, Bank Of America Corporation, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, United States, Citigroup Inc, Dow Jones Amp Co Inc, Wachovia Corporation, Stuart G Hoffman, National Association Of Realtors, U S Federal Reserve, Capital One Financial Corpor |
| Many of the nation's biggest companies have cut back their sales expectations in recent days and the financial system is showing signs of new stress, evidence that the U.S. economy is more threatened by the sharp downturn in housing than it appeared to be only a few weeks ago. |
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