Fed to Test Banks for Interest Rate Rise, Housing Collapse Bloomberg The Federal Reserve said it will examine how the biggest banks might react to a jump in long-term interest rates and another housing crash as it released the next round of stress-test scenarios designed to monitor the ability of the U.S. financial system to ... | |
AT&T Said to Explore Vodafone Takeover as Soon as Next Year Bloomberg AT&T Inc. (T) executives are laying the groundwork internally for a potential takeover of Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) next year, mapping out a strategy for a complex deal with Europe's largest mobile carrier, people familiar with the situation said. While the ... | |
When Insurers Drop Policies: Three Stories New York Times Charles Nance, Dean Wright and Julie Tyrrell are getting dropped — forced out of their existing health insurance plans — and landing smack in the middle of the uproar over President Obama's health care law. | |
Wall St. Week Ahead: Twitter's IPO to provide week's excitement Reuters By Angela Moon. NEW YORK | Fri Nov 1, 2013 6:47pm EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter will be the talk of Wall Street next week when the social media company goes public in the stock market's most anticipated initial public offering since 2012's Facebook ... | |
Nissan announces management makeover, COO Shiga to become vice chairman Reuters India TOKYO | Fri Nov 1, 2013 12:20pm IST. TOKYO (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co(7201.T) said its number two executive, Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga, will step aside from day-to-day operations and become vice chairman, handling external affairs and ... | |
Senator Paul Predicts Yellen to Win Confirmation to Fed Bloomberg Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, predicted Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen will win U.S. Senate confirmation to succeed Ben S. Bernanke as central bank chairman. Asked if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, ... | |
Buffett's $40 Billion Cash Pile Provides Acquisition Fuel Bloomberg Warren Buffett, who aims to have $20 billion in cash at his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A), isn't investing fast enough to keep money from piling up. Berkshire will post a $4.3 billion third-quarter profit, according to an estimate from Barclays Plc, adding to a ... | |
Stocks in face-plant at session's end USA TODAY What had been a blah morning and afternoon for stocks turned downright lousy at the end of trading, as all three indexes stumbled a little ahead of the closing bell. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 0.5% for the day, the Standard & Poor's 500 index ... | |
Chrysler posts 11 pct October US sales gain krqe.com DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler says its October U.S. sales rose 11 percent from a year ago, a sign that the auto industry recovered from a slow September. The company was led by the Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV and the Ram pickup. Grand Cherokee sales were ... | |
RBS suspends two forex traders Financial Times Royal Bank of Scotland has suspended two traders in its foreign exchange division according to two people familiar with the situation, in another sign that the global probe by regulators into the suspected manipulation of the currency market is rapidly gaining ... | |
Georgetown Adapts to ACA Georgetown University The Hoya As implementation of the Affordable Care Act begins, the university will adjust employee health insurance policies and ramp up educational innovations at the School of Nursing and Health Studies. The ACA's individual mandate goes into effect in January ... | |
JPMorgan: Gov't probe widens Investor's Business Daily The nation's biggest bank by assets said the Dept. of Justice and other agencies are investigating its hiring practices in Hong Kong that were already being scrutinized by the SEC. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) said it's being investigated separately for possible ... | |
Next year's 401(k) contribution limit: still $17500 CNNMoney The maximum amount of money employees can tuck away in their tax-deferred retirement plans, like 401(k)s, will remain unchanged next year at $17,500, the IRS announced Thursday. The IRS said there wasn't a big enough increase in the Consumer Price ... | |
Stocks Rise, Aided by Strong Manufacturing Data ABC News Stocks lost momentum heading into midday trading Friday despite an increase in U.S. manufacturing last month. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 19 points, or 0.1 percent, to 15,565 as of 11:20 a.m. Eastern. The blue chips had been up more than 90 ... | |
Banks brace for billion-dollar forex probe CNBC.com Already hammered by their role in the 2008 financial crisis and the rigging of the key bank rate LIBOR, the global banking sector looks set to take another battering to its reputation as investigations start into the fixing of foreign exchange. Barclays, UBS and ... | |
Fairfax Financial takes loss on investments Reuters TORONTO | Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:15pm EDT. TORONTO Oct 31 (Reuters) - Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd , the Canadian property and casualty insurer run by investment guru Prem Watsa, reported a third-quarter loss on Thursday, due largely to unrealized ... | |
Chevron earnings expected to suffer from refinery results San Jose Mercury News NEW YORK -- Chevron's oil and gas production is rising, but weaker refinery results and foreign exchange losses are expected to offset those gains and keep earnings flat for the company in the third quarter. Chevron, based in San Ramon, reports its third ... | |
Coming up: US weekly jobless claims MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - U.S. jobless claims are expected to fall to 335,000 in the week ended Oct. 26 from 350,000 in the prior week, according to economists polled by MarketWatch. The report comes out at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. Claims have been ... | |
Groupon Redesigns Website for First Time in Five-Year History Mashable The daily deals service announced Friday that it has overhauled the look and functionality of its website for the first time since it launched in November 2008. The site, which has received the occasional tweak over the years, has now been rebuilt from the ... | |
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