The mayor of Birmingham, Ala., has been arrested on multiple charges of corruption stemming from the issuance of bonds and debt swap agreements that could lead to the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Mayor Larry P. Langford is accused of taking $235,000 worth of bribes from William Blount, chairman of the Alabama-based investment bank [...]
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TPM Muckraker reports about possible conflicts of inflict in TARP administration. Imagine!Highlights:The department has hired outside private contractors to administer parts of the bailout program, notes GAO. In their responses to Treasury's requirements, six of the eight service providers selected as of November 25, 2008, identified potential or actual sources of conflict. According to our rev...
General Motors Inc. is sort of the anti-Ross Perot, the company that informs you that no matter what the circumstance, it still needs a boatload of money just to make getting up in the morning worth it. The automotive giant (ish) asked for $18 billion in federal loans, one-and-a-half times the size of what it asked for a few weeks ago, amid a 41% decline in auto sales in November. But the thin...
Goldman Sachs' most important challenge as it seeks direction amid a changed landscape for the former investment banks is to hang onto its culture and its people.
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The integration of Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers’s North American investment banking team continued apace on Monday, as the British firm announced its deal-makers leadership team. Of the executives named in Barclays Capital’s announcement, all but a few are veterans of Lehman, which collapsed in September. All of the 15 sector verticals hail from Lehman, whose [...]
Filed under: DJIAWhile Bill Gross is big-time bond trader for Pacific Investment Management Co., he also has some interesting takes on the equities markets. Unfortunately, his views are fairly pessimistic. According to Gross, the stock market can be somewhat nuanced. In fact, he compares it to a "fragile flower where price is part perception, part valuation, and part hope or lack thereof." In h...
Options traders have descended on the smart phone sector Tuesday, with heavy activity in Research in Motion, Nokia and Palm, following poor earnings by the latter, and news of an introduction of Nokia’s entrée into this market. Research in Motion’s options were the most actively traded. The stock was getting hit, down 7.5% after Palm reported less-than-stellar results for its most r...
What exchange traded fund (ETF) investors and Wall Street analysts have suspected for awhile is officially confirmed: the United States is in a recession, and it’s been going on for one year. The question now is, where does an investor go from here? Aaron Siegel for Investment News reports that the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. confirmed that, numbers and indicators aside, we ...