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3 min ago | KASA-TV Albuquerque

Hopi tribe sues over investment losses

The Hopi Tribe of northern Arizona claims its investments were mishandled by a national banking institute, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars.

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Related Topix: Hope, NM, Wells Fargo , Banking

4 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Canada disapproves new meat labeling rules

Canada said Thursday that it is considering retaliatory measures against the United States in a dispute over meat-labeling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider discriminatory.

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Related Topix: World Trade Organization, Agriculture, Science, Gerry Ritz

7 hrs ago | Reuters

Goldman unveils checks on conflicts in bid to fix image

After dozens of meetings with executives and regulators, 100,000 hours of employee training and an immeasurable amount of public grief, Goldman Sachs Group Inc ( At Goldman's annual meeting on Thursday, Blankfein unveiled details of a three-year review and overhaul of the bank's practices in dealing with clients, following high-profile missteps ... (more)

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Related Topix: Goldman Sachs, Investment Services, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Lake City

9 hrs ago | The Hartford Courant

Large U.S. retailers sue Visa, MasterCard over card fees

A group of U.S. retailers including Macy's Inc and Target Corp sued Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc on Thursday, breaking off from a proposed $7.2 billion settlement reached last year over fees to process credit card transactions.

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Related Topix: MasterCard, Visa Inc., Ansonia, CT

13 hrs ago | Seattle Times

ECB official: New bank authority 'indispensable'

A top European Central Bank official says an agency with powers to restructure and wind down busted banks is "indispensable" to strengthening the continent's banking system against future turmoil.

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Related Topix: European Central Bank, Banking

15 hrs ago | Reuters

SoftBank would appoint "security director" to Sprint board

Hewlett-Packard Co raised its 2013 earnings outlook after quarterly results beat low expectations, as CEO Meg Whitman's turnaround plan helped offset shrinking personal computer sales with enterprise computing services.

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Related Topix: SoftBank, Investment Services, HP, Computers, PC, Science, Computer Science, Huawei Technologies

19 hrs ago | The Hartford Courant

Investment firms sue exchanges in dispute on improper fee charges

A group of investment firms including Citadel Securities LLC sued the Chicago Board Options Exchange Inc and four other exchanges on Wednesday for improper charges on millions of options trades over a seven-year period.

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Related Topix: Goldman Sachs, Investment Services, Cohen Group, Consulting, NYX, Inc, Manufacturing, Automakers, Ansonia, CT

Wed May 22, 2013

FiveThirtyEight

DealBook: Morgan Stanley's Head of Fixed Income to Retire

Morgan Stanley has shaken up its once-powerful fixed-income department, announcing in an internal memo on Wednesday that Kenneth deRegt, the executive in charge of the business, is retiring.

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Related Topix: Stanley, Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley

Bloomberg

U.S. Stocks Fall on Concern Fed Will Scale Back Stimulus

U.S. stocks fell, with benchmark indexes retreating from record highs, as concern grew that the Federal Reserve will scale back its stimulus efforts if the labor market continues to improve.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Retail, Saks, Goldman Sachs, Investment Services, HP, Computers, Ben Bernanke, Wyomissing, PA

AmericanBankingNews.com

Financial Institutions, Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.18

Financial Institutions, announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 22nd, AnalystRatingsNetwork.com reports.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Institutions

News Times

GE's Immelt weighs IPO for parts of shrinking finance unit

Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, left. The company is considering spinning off parts of its finance unit through an initial public offering as Immelt works to shrink the business.

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Related Topix: General Electric, Aerospace-Defense, Associated Press, Longboat Key, FL, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers

The Globe and Mail

Slowdown? Nearly half of Canadian home owners eager to buy property

Undeterred by record-high housing prices and bolstered by low borrowing costs, nearly half of Canadian home owners plan to buy a property in the next five years, although intentions vary sharply from city to city, a poll released Wednesday has found.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Housing, Bank of Montreal, Banking, Mortgage, Personal Finance

MarketWatch

H-P, Target, Saks are Wednesday's stocks to watch

Dow component Hewlett-Packard Co. and Target Corp. are among the high-profile companies reporting quarterly results on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Retail, Saks, Financial Markets, HP, Computers, Goldman Sachs, Investment Services, Cohen Group, Consulting, Burbank, CA

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Merck to repurchase $5B in common stock

Merck & Co Inc. said it will repurchase $5 billion worth of its common stock under an accelerated share repurchase agreement with Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Merck , Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Goldman Sachs, Investment Services

YourObserver

SARASOTA-Sarasota woman arrested for stealing from employer

The manager of Broadspire, a division of Crawford & Company that handles workers' compensation claims, reported a grand theft of tens of thousands of dollars.

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Related Topix: Sarasota, FL, Crawford, Sarasota County, FL

Tue May 21, 2013

SFGate

Stocks gain on reassurance from a top Fed official

Reassuring comments from a Federal Reserve official and better earnings from two big retailers helped push the stock market higher Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Federated Investors, Investment Services, Banking, JP Morgan Chase , Ben Bernanke, Business News

The Miami Herald

Ocean Bank names Juan del Busto to its board

Ocean Bank said Tuesday that Juan del Busto, the former regional executive of The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Miami branch and current chairman of Del Busto Capital Partners, has joined Ocean Bank's board of directors.

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Related Topix: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Banking

Indiana's NewsCenter

Community Harvest Food Bank Collecting Ready-To-Eat Foods For OKC Relief

The Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana has announced ways that our community can help out with the Oklahoma Tornado relief efforts.

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Related Topix: Northeast Indiana Bancorp, Banking

Fox 23

Ex-Goldman exec jailed for insider trading seeks retrial

Flash Flood Watch expires at 7:00 PM on 5/21, issued at 9:29 AM Kiamichi Christian Mission, OK A lawyer for a former board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co., who was convicted on insider trading charges, has told an appeals court that his client deserves a new trial.

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Related Topix: Goldman Sachs, Investment Services

Wall Street Journal

HSBC's Thornton Stepping Down

PLC said Monday that John Thornton, a director who played a pivotal role in a 2010 power struggle at the bank, will step down this month to spend more time on other business interests.

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Related Topix: HSBC Holding, HSBC Holdings, Banking, Barrick Gold, Mining

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