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3 hrs ago | The Cincinnati Enquirer

Best of both: combined pension/401k plan

Over the last year it's become abundantly clear that the stock market can devastate even seemingly healthy retirement accounts.

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, Retirement, 401K, Principal Financial Group, Insurance, Investment Services

7 hrs ago | NY Daily News

Former Citibank CEO: Sorry I built Citigroup

John S. Reed , who helped engineer the merger that created Citigroup Inc. , apologized for his role in building a company that has taken $45 billion in direct U.S. aid and said banks that big should be divided into separate parts.

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Related Topix: Banking, Citigroup, New York Metro, US News, US Treasury

11 hrs ago | WAAY-TV Huntsville

South Ala. Guard member hurt in Fort Hood shooting

The Alabama National Guard has identified the soldier who was injured in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.

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Related Topix: Fort Hood, TX, Alabama National BanCorporation, Banking

Fri Nov 06, 2009

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Hatzius Says Fed Will Hold Interest Rate Through 2010: Video

Nov. 6 -- Jan Hatzius, chief U.S. economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Deidre Bolton and Erik Schatzker about his outlook for the economy, labor market and Federal Reserve monetary policy.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, Business News, Video

KING5 Seattle News

Small banks in Ga., Mich. closed

Regulators have shut small banks in Georgia and Michigan, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 117 amid the struggling economy and a cascade of defaults on loans.

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Related Topix: Sparta, GA, Moultrie, GA, Seattle, WA

Bloomberg

CF Industries Rejects Agrium's Increased Takeover Offer of $4.42 Billion

CF Industries Holdings Inc. rejected rival fertilizer producer Agrium Inc.a s increased $4.52 billion takeover offer, saying it a oesubstantiallya undervalues the company.

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Related Topix: Chemicals, Banking, Charter One Financial, Deerfield, IL, Terra Industries, US News

KSDK NewsChannel 5

Oil nears $80 a barrel amid stock market surge

Oil prices climbed toward $80 a barrel Friday, catching up with a surge in global stock markets and assisted by a slightly weaker dollar which made crude more attractive to international investors.

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Related Topix: Telecom, Computers, Cisco Systems, Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley European Fund, Morgan Stanley, Healthcare Industry

Lansing State Journal

Bonuses could jump 40% on Wall Street

NEW YORK - Big bonuses could be back in store for some top executives and traders on Wall Street as profitability returned to the investment banking industry in 2009, according to a new study released today.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Markets, Investment Services, Goldman Sachs Group

WPMT-TV York

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup among NYC employers that got hard-to-find swine flu vaccine

Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, Banking, Citigroup, Medicine, Influenza, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Thu Nov 05, 2009

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UBS' Morris Sees Syndication Boosting CBS's Revenue: Video

Nov. 5 -- Michael Morris, an analyst with UBS AG, talks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar, Adam Johnson and Jon Erlichman about the outlook for CBS Corp.'s earnings.

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Related Topix: Ubs Ag, Banking, Video, Business News

News Press

Fannie Mae to rent out homes instead of foreclosing

WASHINGTON - Thousands of borrowers on the verge of foreclosure will soon have the option of renting their homes from Fannie Mae, under a policy announced today.

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Related Topix: Fannie Mae, Foreclosures

MSNBC News

Feds: 14 charged in insider trading case

Criminal charges have been filed against 14 people, including attorneys and Wall Street professionals, in a widening $53 million insider trading case that has already snared one of the richest men in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Investment Services, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law

Athens Banner-Herald

European, British central banks leave rates alone

The European Central Bank and the Bank of England kept interest rates at record lows Thursday as their economies struggle to emerge from recession.

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Related Topix: Banking

Guardian Unlimited

Fed again pledges to hold rates at record-lows - AP

A A A' With the recession apparently over, the Federal Reserve held a key interest rate at a record low and again pledged to keep it there for an "extended period" to foster the fragile economic recovery.

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Related Topix: Fannie Mae, Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Crain's New York Business - Breaking ...

Living the good life at Goldman Sachs

Wall Street's top trading firm saw $100 million-plus in revenue more days than not last quarter, comfortably bankrolling an 80% hike in average pay for its 31,700-strong work force.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, Financial Markets

Wed Nov 04, 2009

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Resler Says Service Industry May Be Joining the Recovery: Video

Nov. 4 -- David Resler, chief economist at Nomura Securities International Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Erik Schatzker about today's report from ADP Employer Services which says companies in the U.S. cut an estimated 203,000 jobs in October.

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Related Topix: Investment Services, Video, Business News

Shanghai Daily

Goldman earns 5 times from stake sale

GOLDMAN Sachs has agreed to sell half of its holding in Shineway Group, China's top meat processor, to a Chinese fund for about US$150 million, earning roughly five times its investment from the landmark 2006 deal, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said yesterday.

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Related Topix: Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Banking, Investment Services

Irish Examiner

BoI losses near 1bn

Bank of Ireland has suffered almost a 1bn losses in six months this year, it revealed today.

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Related Topix: Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland

Kentucky.com

Why did blue-chip Goldman take a walk on subprime's wild side?

Goldman Sachs was one of the last Wall Street giants to enter the subprime lending world, but when it did, it quickly climbed into bed with profligate, highflying firms - companies such as New Century Financial Corp.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, New Century Financial, Home, Mortgage

Providence Journal

Citizens Financial Group CEO says it won't be sold

The head of Rhode Island-based Citizens Financial Group says it won't be sold by its parent company, the Royal Bank of Scotland, as a condition of the British government pouring billions of dollars into the firm.

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Related Topix: Banking, Providence, RI, Providence Metro

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