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1 hr ago | ABC News

Hedge Funds May Get $11 Billion Frozen at Lehman

Lehman Brothers International , where more than $35 billion of hedge fund assets have been frozen since the bank's collapse last September, could return about $11 billion to fund managers by March if enough firms approve a new plan.

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Related Topix: Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services, Accounting, Economics News, Bankruptcy

5 hrs ago | NY Daily News

The dirtiest word on Wall Street gets a makeover

"Bonus" has become a dirty word on Wall Street , prompting image consultants to advise the biggest financial firms to use euphemisms that carry less stigma as the season of lavish payouts approaches.

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

10 hrs ago | The Big Picture

Bear Stearns, Lehman Execs Kept Billions . . .

Everyone knows that senior execs at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were paid largely in stock, and that they lost most of their wealth when the companies collapsed, right? Turns out, not so much: "Three professors at Harvard are disputing that logic in a new study, saying it is an urban myth that executives at Bear and Lehman were wiped out along ...

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Related Topix: Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services

14 hrs ago | ClipSyndicate

Lindsay, Auletta Discuss News Corp, Microsoft and Google: Video

Nov. 23 -- Jeffrey Lindsay, senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Inc., and Ken Auletta, author of "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," talk with Bloomberg's Matt Miller and Carol Massar about News Corp.'s consideration to block Google Inc.'s Internet search engine from displaying its news articles.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Financial Services, Business News, Video

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Globeinvestor.com

Goldman seeks more CanWest control

Goldman Sachs & Co. is attempting to undermine the power of U.S. distressed debt funds that control CanWest Global Communications Corp.

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Related Topix: CanWest Global Communications, Media, Television, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services

Guardian Unlimited

Shareholders demand Goldman bonuses

Protesters at the Washington office of Goldman Sachs this week demand that the bank's bonuses and compensation go to help prevent foreclosures.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, Foreclosures, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Morgan Stanley European Fund, Morgan Stanley

Local News

Lawyers compare four cases to Prade's

New York attorney Barry Scheck was part of the defense team that represented O.J. Simpson in his 1995 murder trial.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, O.J. Simpson, Black Entertainment, Investment Services, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

Fulton County Daily Report

Too-big-to-fail banks need health care victory

Investors are wondering just how far Congress will go toward breaking up big banks.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, US Senate, Bernard Sanders, Christopher Dodd, Opinion

Myrtle Beach Online

Urban League and partner to offer small biz loans

The National Urban League is teaming with a small-business financial specialist to offer loans to companies unable to get approved by banks.

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Related Topix: Small Business, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, Warren Buffett, Fort Lauderdale Metro, Miami Metro

Sun Nov 22, 2009

CIOL

India may get $1 bn IT outsourcing contracts

The newspaper said JPMorgan , Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley that received approval to buy back government stake worth $68 billion earlier this year are among the firms seeking operational efficiencies by outsourcing non-core IT and back-office projects to India Monday, November 23, 2009 MUMBAI, INDIA: Leading Indian outsourcers such as Tata ...

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Related Topix: Outsourcing, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, Morgan Stanley European Fund, Morgan Stanley

The Globe and Mail

CF wins victory in Terra fight

Ernest Scheyder and Michael Erman New York - Reuters Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 11:09AM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Terra Industries, Chemicals, Banking, Financial Services, Charter One Financial, Agrium, Morgan Stanley

Reuters

NY Times to Goldman Sachs: Pay up to cut public debt

A New York Times editorial slammed Goldman Sachs for its role in the financial crisis and said that instead of paying big bonuses to its employees it should make a multibillion-dollar gift to help reduce the U.S. national debt.

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

The Seattle Times

Microvision offering $21 million in common stock

Microvision Inc., which focuses on light scanning technology, said Thursday it is publicly offering $21 million in common stock.

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Related Topix: Scientific Instruments, Electronics, Microvision, Financial Services

StarNewsOnline.com

Go Ahead and Yell. Hea s Everyonea s Punching Bag.

DEVIN LEONARD ESTERO, Fla. Banks often hire Norman Radow to handle the myriad unpleasantries of the real estate mess.

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Related Topix: Estero, FL, Housing, Foreclosures, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services, Home Gardening, Home

Seeking Alpha

The Fed Backed Itself into a Corner

Over the years, I have warned a seemingly countless number of undergraduates that Fed's hold on monetary independence was tenuous at best.

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Related Topix: Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services, Home, Mortgage

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Philly.com

PhillyDeals: Bank bust-up bill will be DOA in US Senate: analysts

The full House of Representatives will likely pass Rep. Paul Kanjorski 's "Too Big to Fail" amendment, which allows regulators to break up big, complex, dangerous banks and other companies so they won't have to be bailed out.

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Related Topix: Paul Kanjorski, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election, Financial Services, Friedman Billings Ramsey, Investment Services, Barney Frank, US Senate, Republican, Richard Shelby

ClipSyndicate

Ellis Not Surprised by Goldman Chief Blankfein's Apology: Video

Nov. 18 -- Charles Ellis, founder of Greenwich Associates and author of "The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs," talks with Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton and Erik Schatzker about yesterday's apology by Goldman's Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein for the firm's role in some of the activities leading to the financial crisis.

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

Irish Independent

JPMorgan in takeover of 190-year-old brokerage used by Queen

JPMorgan Chase , the second- largest US bank, will buy out its venture with Cazenove Group for 1bn , sealing the takeover of a 190-year-old British brokerage whose clients include the queen.

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Related Topix: Financial Services

Denver Post

Lewis: Morgan Stanley CEO's defiant speech clicks around the world

Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack is becoming a YouTube sensation. A 26-minute video of a talk he gave on "Leadership in Crisis" at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School last month has garnered more than 18,600 page views and 4.5 stars.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Morgan Stanley, Healthcare Industry, Startups, YouTube, University of Pennsylvania, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Investment Services, Goldman Sachs Group

The Boston Globe

Geithner asks banks to loan more

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged US banks to boost lending to small businesses and consumers, who still face "very challenging'' credit conditions and rising unemployment.

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

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