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Crisis Dashboard: LIBOR, VIX, TED Spread, Dow

[Posted on July 2, 2009 at 1:30 PM]

Check out the latest readings of LIBOR, VIX, TED Spread and the Dow along with the latest news affecting the market.
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Auction for AIG investments unit stalls

[Posted on July 2, 2009 at 12:54 PM]

Efforts to sell American International Group's asset management business have stalled after another week of negotiating.
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FDIC data shows no CRA, failure correlation

[Posted on July 2, 2009 at 10:46 AM]

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data shows that over the last decade most banks have complied with the controversial Community Reinvestment Act with no rise in failures.
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Goldman Sachs vs. Rolling Stone

[Posted on July 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM]

The drama rages on: Goldman Sachs Group versus Rolling Stone's contributing editor Matt Taibbi.
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FDIC to announce new rules for PE buyers

[Posted on July 1, 2009 at 4:28 PM]

The federal agency is expected to release new guidelines for PE firms buying banks.
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Recycling bank executives

[Posted on July 1, 2009 at 1:47 PM]

Although Sir Win Bischoff sat on Citigroup's board during the run-up to the credit crisis, the fact seems to be of little concern to Lloyds Banking Group.
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Alpha, RIP, on dark pools

[Posted on July 1, 2009 at 12:03 PM]

Thoughts on loosely regulate markets known as dark pools that may be under threat from financial regulation.
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CRA stuck in Carney's craw

[Posted on July 1, 2009 at 9:53 AM]

Clusterstock's John Carney has touted a Federal Reserve study to support his CRA conspiracy theory, when in fact the report may help debunk it.
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Finance Layoffs: Wells Fargo and more

[Posted on July 1, 2009 at 9:27 AM]

The latest rumors and reports of layoffs are at Wells Fargo, Chrysler Financial and Pamrapo Savings Bank/BCB Community Bank.
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At AIG meeting all is secure except future

[Posted on July 1, 2009 at 8:30 AM]

AIG had its first annual meeting since September 2008, and shareholders weren't as confident on the company's outlook as its executives.
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United Airline's debt running on spare parts

[Posted on June 30, 2009 at 3:32 PM]

United Airlines collateralized its $175 million bond offering with spare parts from its planes.
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SEC register 'would kill a 3-partner VC firm'

[Posted on June 30, 2009 at 3:15 PM]

Requiring VC firms to register with the SEC would be 'burdensome' to small firms, warns Michael Stark, co-founder of Crosslink Capital.
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