English Business News

• Business Group: UK Economy Weakening

  03 mag 12 - 03:40

  (NewsCore) - UK Treasury chief George Osborne will struggle to meet his deficit-reduction targets over the next two years as the weak economy limits tax receipts and forces the government to borrow more, leading business group the Confederation

• Applicants Wanted For Goldman Sachs Social Media Manager

  03 mag 12 - 03:24

  Think you’ve got the social media brand strategy skills to turn a company once called “the Death Star of capitalism” into social media gold? If you said, “yes” you’re in luck — Goldman Sachs is hiring for a “social media community manager” to bu

• Lehman Bros document trove online: childish hubris, laughable...

  03 mag 12 - 01:52

  Barry sez, "How awesome is this treasure trove of emails, documents, files et. all placed online by the NY Fed? Some of the emails between Lehman execs are laughable — naive, silly, hubristic, childish. But my favorite piece simply has to be the

• Fed's Word on Bankers' Regulatory Concern: Mum

  03 mag 12 - 00:34

  A meeting between Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo and six bank bosses was notable largely for long silences from the central bank's side of the table about bankers' concerns over new rules. The Fed can't comment on pending regulation

• Fed's Word on Bankers' Regulatory Concern: Mum

  03 mag 12 - 00:34

  A meeting between Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo and six bank bosses was notable largely for long silences from the central bank's side of the table about bankers' concerns over new rules. The Fed can't comment on pending regulation

• Fed’s Tarullo warns that banking reforms are losing steam

  03 mag 12 - 00:14

  A top federal regulator overseeing the banking sector said Wednesday that reforms begun after the financial crisis are still far from complete and raised concerns that the energy behind the effort may be fading. Read full article >>

• Bank CEOs Discuss New Rules With Fed's Tarullo

  02 mag 12 - 23:54

  Fed Governor Dan Tarullo met with six bank CEOs at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in downtown Manhattan today. The bankers used the opportunity to reinforce their views on various parts of the Dodd Frank law. The meeting sprang from a conv

• Fed's Word on Bankers' Regulatory Concern: Mum

  02 mag 12 - 23:49

  A meeting between Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo and six bank bosses was notable largely for long silences from the central bank's side of the table about bankers' concerns over new rules. The Fed can't comment on pending regulation

• Global Markets Overview - 05/03/2012

  02 mag 12 - 23:49

  U.S. stocks finished mostly lower Wednesday after a weak reading on U.S. private-sector hiring added to concerns over a worsening European economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 10.75 points, or 0.08%, to 13268.57 after declining as many

• Guess Which Big Bank CEO Was Missing At Today's Big Fed Meeting

  02 mag 12 - 23:33

  Six of Wall Street's most powerful CEOs including JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and BofA's Brian Moynihan met with Federal Reserve Gov. Daniel Tarullo about new regulations. Citi's Vikram Pandit was surprisingly absent.

• Shareholder Advocates for Value Enhancement (SAVE) Comments on USA...

  02 mag 12 - 22:36

  GREENWICH, Conn., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- S.A.V.E. Partners IV, LLC, its nominees and certain other shareholders are members of a group ("SAVE") that collectively owns 3,044,739 shares of common stock of USA Technologies, Inc. ("USAT" or the

• Hunt for high yields bolsters Maiden Lane III

  02 mag 12 - 22:33

  The latest auction of some of these assets held the attention of traders and investors that specialise in buying and selling complex packages of loans. But it has broader implications. Its success relied on investors’ appetite for risk, which has be

• Carlyle shares to fetch discounted price in IPO

  02 mag 12 - 22:19

  The Carlyle Group will sell shares in its firm on the Nasdaq on Thursday at a price of $22 per share, a slight drop from what the firm had hoped for in its highly anticipated initial public offering. The Washington-based private equity giant

• American Capital Agency Corp. Announces Common Stock Authorization...

  02 mag 12 - 22:00

  BETHESDA, Md., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) ("AGNC" or the "Company") announced today, in accordance with the terms of its recently issued 8.000% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Se

• Dow Closes Lower on Jobs Data

  02 mag 12 - 21:03

  U.S. stocks finished mostly lower Wednesday after a weak reading on U.S. private sector hiring added to concerns over a worsening European economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 10.59 points, or 0.08%, to 13268.73 after declining as many

• Dow Closes Lower on Jobs Data

  02 mag 12 - 21:03

  U.S. stocks finished mostly lower Wednesday after a weak reading on U.S. private sector hiring added to concerns over a worsening European economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 10.59 points, or 0.08%, to 13268.73 after declining as many

• Judge: Gupta Not Entitled to SEC Negotiation Documents

  02 mag 12 - 20:46

  Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta isn't entitled to documents regarding settlement negotiations between the SEC and potential cooperating witnesses in his civil insider-trading case, a judge has ruled.

• Fears for recovery intensify as bank lending shrinks again

  02 mag 12 - 19:48

  Concerns about the prospects for growth mounted on Wednesday after data from the Bank of England showed that almost £100bn of lending has been sucked out of the economy in the three-and-a-half years since the banking industry was bailed out. In

• Guess Which Big Bank CEO Was Missing At Today's Big Fed Meeting

  02 mag 12 - 19:33

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• Banks lead FTSE lower on eurozone fears but InterContinental Hotels...

  02 mag 12 - 18:04

  Leading index loses ground as manufacturing and unemployment figures disappoint Banks were among the major fallers as leading shares gave up some of their recent gains, following poor manufacturing and unemployment figures from the eurozone and the