Banking, finance, and taxes
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ThinkstockIn a move that was probably inevitable, the Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) today announced a joint venture with SharesPost Inc. to create a larger marketplace for private company...
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ThinkstockWe are now within ten days of the release of the Federal Reserve’s new round of stress tests on how the nation’s largest banks will do if (or when) the economy goes back into a...
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ThinkstockThe conventional wisdom says that low interest rates encourage banks to lend more because more borrowers come knocking on the door. So why, when the Fed funds rate is as close to zero as it...
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ThinkstockThe Shanghai Composite, the exchange where most large Chinese companies trade, dropped 3.7%. The reason stated by experts was that planned government restrictions on cheap money for home...
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ThinkstockIn the coming weeks, the financial sector may move from worrying about the spending sequestration to the coming stress tests of the 19 major banks in the United States. We recently covered...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is often overlooked by economists and investors as being important in the national economic barometers. That might not be the case this year as Fed...
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Jon OggThe U.S. Treasury just held an auction for its key 7-year notes on Wednesday and demand was deemed to be short of what bond investors wanted to see. Today’s auction was not a deathblow to...
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ThinkstockIt is usually interesting when Wall St. brokerage firms and research firms issue analyst coverage on each other. Sometimes the coverage is positive and sometimes it is negative. Many...
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ThinkstockCitigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) has a wide coverage of the financial universe, and that includes the banking giants. A report this Wednesday looks cautious on the firm’s coverage of the Canadian...
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Jon OggLast week’s release of the January FOMC meeting caused confusion due to so many Fed presidents and governors opining on how and when the FOMC might exit the quantitative easing of endless...
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courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveIt was just last week that we accused the Federal Reserve presidents and governors of wishing they could take back their wording and statements made in the January 20 to...
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Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe research team at the Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) unit Merrill Lynch is resuming coverage of the public financial exchanges. IntercontinentalExchange Inc....
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ThinkstockDeutsche Börse and CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) talked about a merger of the two big exchanges, and then apparently they did not. The consolidation of the sector has left some exchanges...
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Jon OggThe minutes of the January 29 to 30 FOMC meeting released on Wednesday were the blame of the market sell-off. The communication so far is that this signals more and more growing trends of a...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has released its minutes of the January 29 to 30 FOMC meeting. The general conditions were positive and the caution was mostly around the weather at the time. While we...
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