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Deals of the Day: Is It Time for Treasury to Buy Troubled Loans?

wsj.com     2 hrs ago          

Deals of the Day includes all the major news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions and financing. Mergers & Acquisitions Altria: Altria Group is reportedly considering a $10 billion bid for UST, the largest...                    

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US Treasury close to deal to prop up mortgage giants Fannie and Freddie

independent.co.uk     18 hrs ago   85 related          

The US Treasury is close to a deal to prop up the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose crumbling finances have put the US housing market in jeopardy and threatened to turn an economic slowdown into a...                    

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Top 10 News Items 9/2-9/5: Commodity Stocks Continue Slide; PIMCO's Gross Waits on the Sidelines;...

streetinsider.com     22 hrs ago          

This is a recap of this week's major news on Wall Street. 1. Commodity stocks continued to move sharply lower this week. Traders remain concerned with the potential for a global slowdown and the implications that this...                    

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Deals of the Day: Is It Time for Treasury to Buy Troubled Loans? (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

yahoo.com     yesterday   1 related          

Deals of the Day includes all the major news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions and financing. Mergers & Acquisitions Altria: Altria Group is reportedly considering a $10 billion bid for UST, the largest...                    

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Obama, McCain, Fannie and Freddie: A Troubled Love Story (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

yahoo.com     yesterday   1 related          

In this year’s fraught political environment, rivals Barack Obama and John McCain can agree on few things, but this is one: that it is time to restructure Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts,...                    

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What is the Market's Poison Pill? (at Minyanville.com)

yahoo.com     04-Sep-2008   3 related          

with an eye towards the forming storms in the Atlantic? You know, that “long energy, short financial” bet that every hedge fund in the Street seemed to be in? Or is that sector too crowded a bet right now, particularly...                    

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Kiss the Global Financial System Goodbye? (at Motley Fool)

yahoo.com     03-Sep-2008   12 related          

"The end of the current international financial system." That's how Yu Yongding described the result if government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) were to fail. Why should we...                    

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More Awful Truths About Republicans

newhavenindependent.org     04-Sep-2008   1 related          

Four years ago we observed that the so-called "Republican philosophy" of small government, sound money, and balanced budgets was illusory in terms of the history and then-current policies of the Republican Party. However,...                    

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Lehman-backed hedge fund fails as oil play peters out

bloggingstocks.com     03-Sep-2008   30 related          

Filed under: Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH)BBC News reports that another hedge fund has closed down thanks to its failure to bail out of the oil speculation trade that boosted oil to a peak of $147 in...                    

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The Housing Bubble, Still Burst

washingtonpost.com     03-Sep-2008          

With the summer drawing to an end, we figure it's time to update the three-part series we published in June on how the housing bubble grew and popped. The series, recalls reporter Zachary Goldfarb, examined excesses in...                    

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