Citi names Willem Buiter its new top economist
AP - 1 hour 7 minutes agoCitigroup Inc. on Monday named Willem Buiter, a London-based economics professor and author, as its new chief economist.
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Citigroup Inc. on Monday named Willem Buiter, a London-based economics professor and author, as its new chief economist.
Obama Administration Cracking Down on Companies Lagging in Efforts to Help Borrowers at Risk of Foreclosure
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Celgene Corp. can more than triple sales for its best-selling cancer pill Revlimid on new data that may convince doctors to choose the drug as a first option over Johnson & Johnson’s intravenous medicine, Velcade.
Ever since its creation in 1913, the Federal Reserve has grappled with a daunting political contradiction. The Fed is charged with preventing the collapse of the banking and financial system, whose health is essential for the "real economy" of production and jobs. But financial bailouts usually occur when mistakes or misdeeds by bankers and investment professionals make them public pariahs. To ...
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks advanced after the United Arab Emirates pledged to back Dubai’s banks to ease the region’s debt crisis and American business activity unexpectedly accelerated this month.
Bank of America rose $.14 or .9 percent, to $15.61. Citigroup rose $.01 or .2 percent, to $4.07.
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Gartmore Group Ltd., the money manager owned by leveraged buyout firm Hellman & Friedman LLC, plans to raise more than 400 million pounds ($660 million) in its initial public offering.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - 11/30/09) - Winston | Baker, an innovative organizer of online and offline finance conferences, announced that it will be offering the anticipated webinar on "The Re-Emergence of M&A: Hope or Hype?" on December 2, 2009 at 12:00 pm EST. The one-hour webinar will serve as a year-end summary and outlook to be addressed by leading mergers and acquisitions experts. The ...
Maybe the experts know something we don't know.
A stern warning from sunny Dubai.
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of some top finance companies are up at 10 a.m.: Bank of America rose $.27 or 1.7 percent, to $15.74. Citigroup rose $.07 or 1.6 percent, to $4.13.
The Obama administration will crack down on mortgage companies that are failing to do enough to help borrowers at risk of foreclosure.
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Bank of America drastically alters compensations of key executives.
The Federal Reserve is taking steps to fine-tune a strategy to reel in some of the unprecedented amount of money that's been pumped into the economy during the financial crisis. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday that investors and others... Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Federal Reserve System - Financial crisis - Central bank - Government
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet will shine a light on the weakest European banks when he begins withdrawing the cheap loans that propped up the financial industry this year.