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Bank Chiefs Seek to Reassure Investors

(Source: By Nathaniel Popper and E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times) – Reporting from New York and Los Angeles— Wall Street retreated back into panic mode amid growing worries about the economy, prompting leaders of major U.S. banks to take [...]


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S&P Slammed by Wall Street Over Pulled Mortgage Ratings

(source: Bloomberg By Sarah Mulholland) – Wall Street banks including Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank AG slammed Standard & Poor’s decision to suspend ratings on commercial-mortgage bonds after finding a flaw in the review process.


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Hoenig Says Fed’s Rate Policy Subsidizes Wall Street Banks

July 26 (Source: Bloomberg By Joshua Zumbrun) – The U.S. central bank’s policy of holding interest rates near zero is a subsidy for large banks and redistributes wealth from savers to debtors, said Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve [...]


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CEO Brian Moynihan Says Bank of America Is Turning The Corner On Its Countrywide Woes

(Source: By E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times) – Bank of America Corp.’s chief executive is out to convince Wall Street that he’s finally bringing under control the financial disaster caused by the bank’s acquisition of mortgage goliath Countrywide Financial [...]


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Dodd-Frank Forces Banks to Shrink, Reshape

(Source: Bloomberg By Clea Benson and Phil Mattingl) – Jamie Dimon keeps a tally of the ways Wall Street already has been affected by the largest overhaul of financial regulation in generations.


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Banks Preparing for (and Fearing) Derivatives Rules

(Source: DealB%%k New York Times By BEN PROTESS) – Wall Street is giving a long-anticipated makeover to its derivatives business, a major profit center that played a leading role in the financial crisis.


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Stocks in U.S. Decline as JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, General Motors Retreat

(Source: Bloomberg By Nikolaj Gammeltof) – U.S. stocks declined, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down for a second day, on concern Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis will spread and as U.S. lawmakers failed to agree on a deficit-reduction program.


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Church Leaders: Bondi Siding With Wall Street

(Source: orlando sentinel By Mary Shanklin) – Ministers from Orlando and other parts of Florida intend to hold a prayer vigil for Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday in hopes she will “stop siding with the Wall Street banks” [...]


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War on Crime Revs Up on Wall Street

NEW YORK (Source: TheStreet By Peter Morici) — These days the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating Wall Street using tactics, such as wire taps, usually reserved for professional criminals and terrorists.


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Can Loan Modification Fix Housing?

(Source: Politico By CHRISTOPHER PAPAGIANIS) – The New York state attorney general’s request for information regarding securitization operations of three major Wall Street banks is reigniting an important debate about how best to fix the mortgage market and strengthen our [...]


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Mortgage Stew Hard to Stomach for Some

(Source: The Daily Oklahoman By Richard Mize) – New mortgage finance regulations are on the way and they will make it even harder to get a loan to buy a house at the best possible interest rates.


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Here’s one idea to spark loans to low-income homebuyers again

(Source:By Tony Pugh, McClatchy Washington Bureau) — When a Boston community development group needed money to expand an innovative lending program that fights area foreclosures, it had high hopes. In less than a year, the Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods program at [...]


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