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2 hrs ago | AmericanBankingNews.com

China Petroleum and Chemical Lowered to "Underperform" at Jefferies Group

China Petroleum and Chemical traded up 0.56% on Monday, hitting $110.40. China Petroleum and Chemical has a 52-week low of $82.51 and a 52-week high of $122.81. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $111.0. The company has a market cap of $97.415 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.30. Other equities research analysts have also ... (more)

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Related Topix: China Petroleum and Chemical, Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Investment Banking, Jefferies Group

6 hrs ago | New Pittsburgh Courier Online

New Wall Street threat to homea

A year ago, the Federal Reserve Board issued a policy statement on rental of REO owned by the banks they supervise and allowed the banks to rent REO properties without requiring them to demonstrate continuous efforts to market the properties.

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Related Topix: REIT, Personal Finance, Goldman Sachs, Financial Services

Sat May 18, 2013

The Big Apple

Love Trade

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Related Topix: Seventh Avenue, Metal, US Global Investors, Financial Services

Business Journal

Fired employee ordered to pay Ameriprise $1.1 million

A fired Ameriprise worker who stole client funds has been ordered to pay $1.1 million to her former employer.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, AMP Ltd, Insurance

The Daily Beast

Apartment Hunting Just Got Easier

Renting an apartment in New York often resembles an obstacle course. A new company is aiming to simplify the search by putting the process online.

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Related Topix: Home, Home Renting, Goldman Sachs, Financial Services, Cohen Group, Consulting, New York, NY

PE Hub

High-Profile VCs Caught up in Bitcoin Mania

Just since April, notable firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Google Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures have invested $9 million in three bitcoin-related companies: BitPay, CoinBase and OpenCoin.

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Related Topix: WebMD, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Financial Services, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

TrustedReviews

Yahoo looking to buy Tumblr

Yahoo is reported to be in talks with Tumblr as it is looking to acquire the blogging service for around $1 billion .

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Related Topix: Tumblr, Blog News, Goldman Sachs, Financial Services

Bloomberg

Aberdeen Sounds Alarm as Asia Bond Growth Soars: Credit Markets

The amount of dollar-denominated bonds issued by companies in Asia is growing almost 10 times faster than the global corporate debt market , raising concern that investors are lowering their standards as they seek to take advantage of the region's relatively high yields.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Merrill Lynch and Co

Fri May 17, 2013

Gretna Breeze

S&P lowers Berkshire credit rating

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., tours the exhibition floor prior to the start of the Berkshire shareholders meeting in Omaha on May 4. Rating agency Standard & Poor's lowered one of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s credit ratings by a notch Thursday, a day after another agency, A.M. Best, kept the Omaha investment company's ... (more)

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Related Topix: Warren Buffett, Construction, Berkshire Hathaway, Business Wire, Berkshire Hathaway , Startups, Insurance, Empire Group

Reuters

Exclusive: Onex fails to find buyer for Carestream Health

Stocks continued their climb into uncharted territory on Friday, racking up the fourth week of gains in a row as encouraging economic data prompted investors to pick up shares of growth companies.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Onex, Financial Markets, Rochester, NY

CBC News

Chris Hall: Senator Duffy and the little matter of accountability

Chris Hall is the CBC's National Affairs Editor, based in the Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa.

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Related Topix: Canada, Stephen Harper, Financial Services, Onex, North America, World News,

The Beaumont Enterprise

Stocks rise on hopeful signs for the US economy

A gauge of future economic activity rose more than analysts had expected, as did a measure of consumer confidence, adding to evidence that the economy is maintaining a steady recovery.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Charles Schwab

The Atlantic

Why Goldman Sachs Just Bet $500 Million on Elon Musk's Solar Business

Forget Tesla . Musk's roof-top firm SolarCity is now the nation's largest residential solar installer Elon Musk's electric car and rocket ship ventures may score the headlines --but SolarCity, his rooftop photovoltaic company, is proving the market leader of a booming business.

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Related Topix: Goldman Sachs, Financial Services, Startups, SolarCity, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Daily Political

Imperial Tobacco Group's Underperform Rating Reaffirmed at BNP Paribas

's stock had its "underperform" rating reaffirmed by BNP Paribas in a research note issued on Friday, Analyst Ratings Network.com reports.

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Related Topix: Imperial Tobacco Group, Tobacco, Financial Services, Investment Banking, Jefferies Group

Thu May 16, 2013

MarketWatch

Movers & Shakers: Thursday's movers: Berkshire hit by S&P downgrade

Shares of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. headed south on Thursday after Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered the company's credit rating by one notch to 'AA' with a negative outlook.

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Related Topix: Construction, Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett

Knoxville News Sentinel

J.C. Penney posts bigger 1Q loss than expected

The legacy of J.C. Penney's former CEO continues to cast a dark cloud over the department-store chain.

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Related Topix: Goldman Sachs, Financial Services, Cohen Group, Consulting, Plano, TX

The Press-Enterprise

RIVERSIDE: Man killed by train wouldn't move, conductor says

Police said the freight train conductor sounded the horn when he saw something on the railroad tracks on the BNSF line and stopped the train just before the Chicago Avenue crossing in northeast Riverside about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Riverside

Digital Video Editing

Amazon cloud partner Apptio raises $45 million

Apptio, a start-up that helps big companies like Boeing Co track billions of dollars in technology spending, said on Wednesday that it raised $45 million from institutional investment firms including Janus Capital Group.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Financial Services, Hillman, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology

Daily Political

Hikma Pharmaceuticals Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Jefferies Group

's stock had its "buy" rating restated by analysts at Jefferies Group in a research report issued to clients and investors on Thursday, StocKRatingsNetwork.com reports.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Investment Banking, Jefferies Group

Fortune

Retirement savers lose $117,000 to unexpected events

Almost all of the 50-to-70-year-olds surveyed said they had experienced at least one economic or life event that had taken a hit to their retirement savings, according to Ameriprise.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Financial Services, AMP Ltd, Insurance

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