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'We participated in things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret,' Lloyd Blankfein said. 'We apologise.' The head of Goldman Sachs has apologised for the Wall Street titan's role in helping to create the financial crisis. After being ridiculed for saying he was doing God's work, and having seen his company labelled as a bloodsucking vampire squid , Lloyd Blankfein yesterday delivered ...
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Key housing sector data may provide direction for Wall Street in the coming week as the market looks for confirmation of economic recovery and girds for the year-end holiday period.
WASHINGTON — The federal government has decided to abandon a Bush administration plan that would have permitted mutual fund companies and brokerage firms to offer investment advice to 401(k) customers.
Anxiety reappeared on Wall Street this week, leaving markets largely lower and sending investors into short-term government bonds and the U.S. dollar, which recorded its first weekly gain in a month.
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Wall Street continued the previous decline Friday, after the technology giant Dell posted disappointing earnings and European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet said policy makers will w...
SUNY Oswego economics professors will gather for a panel discussion on campus, Wednesday, to discuss the United States’ current financial crisis.
In a week dominated by continued flows of cheap money into world markets, investors’ faith in higher-risk assets, such as shares, commodities and higher-yielding currencies, is beginning to wane. Confidence that the US Federal Reserve will keep its interest-rate target near zero well into 2010 lifted major stock indexes to fresh 13-month highs earlier in the week. Stocks on Wall Street then ...
Once there was a simpler time, when pretty much everything that happened in the financial world had a straightforward explanation.
At the start of this summer we faced the worst stage of our financial crisis. News was saturated with continuous Wall Street woes, business’ crumbling and storefronts becoming vacant. Jobs were lost every Friday, as it became the worst day of the week rather than the one people looked forward to.
“Sensate,” a three-hour “dance installation” ending this weekend at the Brooklyn Lyceum , was inspired by Ahern’s reading of Friedrich Nietzsche , the 19th-century philosopher who created the idea of the “superman.”
Filed under: Personal Finance , News , The Economy , Banking , Credit Card , Budget , Education Black Caucus Stalls Finance Overhaul In one of the clearest examples of how the weak economy is overtaking Obama administration priorities, the Congressional Black Caucus forced the House to shelve its revamp of financial-sector regulation for two weeks. [The Wall Street Journal] Oldest Black ...
He's not going to do it," Paulson told Geithner in amazement. "He said he didn't want to 'import our cancer .'" That's the US treasury secretary telling the head of the New York Fed that Alistair D...
"The technology sector is in trouble...as traders have reacted negatively to Dell's third-quarter earnings report," said Joseph Hargett of Schaeffer's Investment Research. "What's more, Dell's miss...
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Stocks fall a third day as dollar strengthens NEW YORK Investors can’t shake their fears that the economy isn’t keeping up with the stock market. Stocks fell for a third straight day yesterday as a disappointing outlook from computer maker Dell Inc. suggested that an economic recovery could be uneven. The major indexes all had moderate losses, leaving the Dow Jones industrials with a slim 0.5 ...
