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Bloomberg via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 12:00 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Kenneth Feinberg’s decision to slash executive pay at taxpayer-rescued companies was “sheer stupidity,” says Home Depot Inc. co-founder Kenneth Langone. Not so, says compensation analyst Paul Hodgson: If anything, Feinberg is a “pay kitten” soft on Wall Street.
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Wall Street Transcript via Yahoo! Finance - Fri Nov 27, 10:06 am ET
67 WALL STREET, New York - November 27, 2009 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its TWST Investing Strategies Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This 55 page feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. The full issue is available by ...
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MalaysiaNews.net - 51 minutes ago
While Black Friday, by every early indication, had done everything asked of it -- and more, it seemed, than pessimists had expected of it -- it failed to wrest Wall Street's post-holiday spotlight fr...
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Market Watch - Fri Nov 27, 9:11 am ET
U.S. stock-market futures were trading sharply lower on Friday as debt problems for Dubai World spread concern across markets worldwide, and as traders nervously waited to see how a shortened Wall Street session would unfold after the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Market Watch - Fri Nov 27, 9:10 am ET
A roundup of financial and business news breaking before the opening bell on Wall Street.
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The Globe and Mail - 2 hours 9 minutes ago
The financial crisis provoked a global front to stimulate economies through massive spending. But this was fuelled by a staggering amount of borrowing. Now governments are realizing that a new calamity looms - higher taxes and slashed social programs
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Times Online - Fri Nov 27, 5:04 pm ET
The spectre of “Financial Crisis 2” continued to loom over global markets yesterday after Dubai’s revelation that it may not be able to meet its debt obligations.
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MalaysiaNews.net - 2 hours 28 minutes ago
CHICAGO -- Wall Street's main barometer of investor sentiment did not show much fear on Wednesday, as it sank to its lowest level in 15 months. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, kn...
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 7:56 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street’s system for determining payments on derivatives linked to the debt of defaulted companies is showing cracks less than a year after securities firms changed practices to avoid “Draconian” regulation.
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MalaysiaNews.net - 2 hours 31 minutes ago
The Sri Lankan-born billionaire is the most prominent of 20 people who face criminal or civil charges in the largest U.S. hedge fund insider trading case on record and Wall Street’s first insider .....
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Daily Telegraph - Fri Nov 27, 6:24 pm ET
The scandal over MPs' expenses and the financial crisis could sow the seeds of a religious revival in Britain, the leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales has suggested.
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Sky News Australia - Fri Nov 27, 3:37 pm ET
Shades of the roiling energy markets that were set off last year by the crisis on Wall Street have emerged again, with crude seeing the largest percentage drop in prices since January.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 6:06 am ET
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- A financial crisis in Dubai will hurt remittances to India and reduce job opportunities for citizens of the south Asian nation, said Thomas Issac, finance minister of the southern state of Kerala.
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Daily FX - Fri Nov 27, 6:53 pm ET
- Fear of another financial crisis spreading from Dubai reminds traders of the dollar’s value - The United States’ recovery more measured than initially expected, confidence uncertain - Does the dollar’s recent upswing have the makings of a true technical reversal?
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Fri Nov 27, 4:19 pm ET
Stocks on Wall Street have slid amid concern that financial trouble in Dubai could disrupt a global economic recovery.