Greece to sell Postbank, Proton in July, stress-test big banks
Source: Reuters
Athens :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 06:01:19 -0700 | business-news
Topics A man walks outside of the Hellenic Postbank's headquarters in Athens January 4, 2013. Greece's bank rescue fund will aim to sell Hellenic Postbank and Proton by mid-July with big banks continuing to absorb small lenders as part of...
MORGAN STANLEY: And Now It's Time To Worry About Deflation Again
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 06:05:48 -0700 | business-news
We were just talking about how the wrongest prediction of the past 5 years was the call for "inflation" or "hyperinflation" due to aggressive monetary easing. In his latest US Macro Dashboard note, Morgan Stanley economist Vincent Reinhart points out...
Job market gains could lead Fed to taper QE3 early
Source: Reuters
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 06:01:20 -0700 | business-news
Analysis & Opinion Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke attends the Treasury Department's Financial Stability Oversight Council in Washington April 25, 2013. The beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program might come sooner than...
The Koch Brothers Have Buried An Area The Size Of A City Block Under Thirty Feet Of Oil Sands Waste
Source: BusinessInsider
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-19 06:05:32 -0700 | business-news
Canada's oil sand mines will eventually produce up to two trillion barrels of oil and what that could mean for the environment has been debated for years . What's often overlooked though is a coke byproduct that results from refining...
7 Big Stories That Traders Are Talking About This Weekend
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 07:14:51 -0700 | business-news
Dave Lutz of Stifel, Nicolaus passes along the top stories that traders are talking about this weekend. Here are the big ones: Hedge fund managers have gone short Treasuries for the first time in 2 months ( Bloomberg ) Chinese...
BARRON'S: There Were Two Gigantic, Suspicious Sales Of Gold On Friday That Caused The Price To ...
Source: BusinessInsider
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 08:12:16 -0700 | business-news
Ilya Naymushin Gold went down the toilet again on Friday, and is now close to revisiting its April lows. This gold weakness is causing a lot of consternation to fans of it who don't understand how the precious metal can...
Former Amazon Employee: Working On Amazon's Cloud Can Be A Dull Job (AMZN)
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 06:05:34 -0700 | business-news
When it comes to cloud computing, there's no bigger name than Amazon Web Services (AWS). Yet the company is surprisingly tight-lipped about its cloud...It will only let a scant few top-level AWS execs talk to the press and only on...
Benghazi Crossfire: Can White House And State Dept. Dodge Their Own Bullet Talking Points?
Source: Forbes
White House :: TN :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 08:20:55 -0700 | business-news
Is all of this Benghazi scandal stuff just a political Republican witch-hunt to attack Hillary? Hey, if this comes across as an unseemly metaphor, I'm just quoting lots of lefty pundits including a ThinkProgress article titled National Security Brief: House...
Six ways to save on moving day
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 07:17:45 -0700 | business-news
But despite the inherent excitement in setting up shop in a new, more suitable living space, 40% of Americans would rather go to the dentist than move, while 34% would rather do their own taxes.
Holocaust Documentary Details Bogus Town Set Up By Nazis And Run By Jews
Source: BusinessInsider
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-05-19 07:14:54 -0700 | business-news
Theresienstadt When your enemy is sworn to exterminate every one of you, can you -- should you -- try to cut a deal with him to at least save some lives knowing that others are doomed? The question lies at...
Market Snapshot: Stock rally's breadth is a sign of strength, froth
Source: MarketWatch
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 05:58:19 -0700 | business-news
Similarly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.6% on the week to 15,354.40, its 21st record of the year. The major benchmarks, including the Nasdaq Composite , have made a nearly unchecked 16%-17% gain for the year. Up next: Bernanke...
Economic Preview: U.S. economy walks uneven path
Source: MarketWatch
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 05:58:17 -0700 | business-news
The rebound over the past year in home sales and construction after a long slump is one of the reasons many economists expect U.S. growth to reaccelerate later in 2013. Rising sales will spur greater demand for all the things...
Stocks to Watch: Stocks to watch: Campbell Soup, Qihoo
Source: MarketWatch
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 05:58:17 -0700 | business-news
U.S. packaged food companies, easily outpacing share gains from General Mills Inc. , Kellogg Co. and J.M...The next trade: Zillow, Campbell Stock pickers are eyeing Zillow and Angie's List...Victor Reklaitis breaks down market-moving events going into the weekend.
Dimon making case to keep both J.P. Morgan jobs
Source: MarketWatch
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 09:29:52 -0700 | business-news
Chairman and Chief Executive Jamie Dimon is making the case for continuity in the final days before a potentially defining vote on his future. Dimon told an audience in Boston Tuesday that the nation's largest bank had fixed the problems...
Trying To Squeeze Everything From Employees Leads To Fraud
Source: BusinessInsider
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-19 09:17:35 -0700 | business-news
Seems obviousbut Ernst & Young has actual evidence. For its annual fraud report the firm surveyed 3,000 company board members, managers and their teams in 36 countries across the world, and found that employees feeling the double pinch of increased demands and fewer financial...
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