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Five ways to dodge checking account fees Houston Chronicle By CANDICE CHOI AP First they took away free checking. Now banks are charging more for ATM withdrawals, stop payments on checks and other services. The encroaching fees on checking accounts come as the industry seeks ways to offset the effect of new ... See all stories on this topic »

Obama Urges US Competitiveness Ahead of Speech New York Times By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON — President Obama, declaring that the United States can "outcompete any other nation on earth," called on Saturday for a new era of American innovation and competition, using his weekly address to deliver a pro-growth, ... See all stories on this topic »

Inflation is coming – just not yet Financial Times By John Dizard Investors are as naturally paranoid as any race of small furry creatures; the moment they acquire a pile of nuts and berries is the moment others will seek to take it from them. I've noticed, watching their scurrying around the cage of ... See all stories on this topic »

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Grants Finance Officer – NGOs - Government Jobs in Middle East By jobs-in-middleeast Grants Finance Officer – NGOs. التوظيف العربي - Cairo - To provide technical support in Grant Accounting and ensuring compliance to Government/Donor Grants regulations and relevant financial policies Experience in accounting and fund ... Jobs in Middle East - http://middleeast.co/

Bristol | Finance Manager (United Kingdom,Bristol) | Banking ... By admin This well known brand based in North Bristol is currently going through a rapid period of expansion. With turnover expected to triple over the next 3 years this . Job Opportunities in Bristol - http://www.bristol.opportunities-job.info/

1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and ... By dailynews Financial Markets (ECON 252) Professor Shiller provides a description of the course, Financial Markets, including administrative. No.1 Daily News - http://www.no1daily.com/

Finance » What to Consider in a Life Annuity By Albert Moody Take your time to analyze insurance companies before you purchase a lifetime annuity. One way to compare companies is to compare insurance ratings provided by companies like AM Best and S&P. The scores that they provide reveal the ... Finance - http://financeblog.kpgolfpro.com/

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Changes and continuity for local dailies Daily Camera By Erika Stutzman One of the reasons journalists get into the newspaper business is because of change: The fact that every day will be defined by something we don't know yet, a person we haven't heard of before, a twist in a community drama that ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook raises $1.5 billion in investments so far San Francisco Chronicle In the company's most revealing disclosure of its financial plans to date, Facebook Inc. said Friday that it has raised $1.5 billion in investments and planned to start reporting its finances publicly by April 2012. The Palo Alto social networking ... See all stories on this topic »

Dow closes out week with gains on GE's strong earnings Denver Post By Kristina Peterson and Brendan Conway NEW YORK — US blue-chip stocks climbed Friday as encouraging earnings from General Electric boosted industrial stocks, overshadowing disappointing corporate reports from Bank of America and some others. ... See all stories on this topic »

China economy to grow 9.8% in 2011: Think tank Economic Times BEIJING: A Chinese government think tank has forecast the nation's economy will grow around 9.8 percent this year, with inflation likely to come in at 3.7 percent, state media reported Sunday. Experts at the Chinese Academy of Sciences also predicted ... See all stories on this topic »

Putting numbers to drivers' misery Washington Post Gridlock in Chicago, which, one statistical measure says, is tied with the District for worst congestion. (Scott Olson) By Robert Thomson When advocates for transportation improvements want to illustrate how bad the commute has gotten, ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Post

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State of the Union a 'fundamental moment' for Obama Los Angeles Times President Obama will address the economy and the federal debt in his State of the Union speech, which will be his opportunity to showcase his shift to the political center. By Peter Nicholas and Christi Parsons, Washington Bureau President Obama plans ... See all stories on this topic »

DC area will take hit if Wall Street steals away with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Washington Post By Steven Pearlstein Right now, a cottage industry of analysts, lobbyists, regulators, financiers and elected officials is hard at work formulating a future course for the mortgage finance giants, which have been under government conservatorship since ... See all stories on this topic »

Illinois law adds to Texas' appeal as a place to do business Dallas Morning News By Cheryl Hall Ten days ago, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill that increases that state's personal income tax by two-thirds. Every wage earner in the state — from Oprah Winfrey to a hotel clerk — must now fork over 5 percent of what he or she ... See all stories on this topic »

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Reshaping Mortgage Finance By Tom Lindmark It's only January but we may already have a winner for sheer audacious rent seeking of the year award. The NYT reports that the nation's big banks would. Wall Street Pit - http://wallstreetpit.com/

Criminal finance database security worries peers | Office of ... By admin Criminal finance database security worries peers. January 22, 2011 by admin. Filed under Commentaries and Analyses, Non-U.S. · Leave a Comment. Alex Stevenson reports: A database monitoring 1.5 million suspicious criminal transactions ... Office of Inadequate Security - http://www.databreaches.net/

Reshaping Mortgage Finance | www.bullfax.com By marketmaker Reuters - U.S. government-controlled mortgage finance companies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are working on a program to help independent mortgage banks get access to short-term credit needed to make home loans, the Wall Street Journal ... Bullfax.com - Market News & Analysis - http://www.bullfax.com/

Environmental and Urban Economics: Public Finance Debts Lead to ... By Matthew E. Kahn Public Finance Debts Lead to Reduced Public Transit Service: The Case of Caltrain. Caltrain is a slow moving train that makes too many stops as it takes me from San Francisco to the Stanford area. I don't drive and BART doesn't connect ... Environmental and Urban Economics - http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/

Finance as a conspiracy of insurgent terrorists | Corrente By Tony Wikrent Finance as a conspiracy of insurgent terrorists. Tony Wikrent's picture. Emergent Conspiracy · Department of Bust Out Profit Models and Vampiric Capitalism · Tony Wikrent. Sat, 01/22/2011 - 1:25pm — Tony Wikrent ... Corrente - http://www.correntewire.com/

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Preckwinkle names new finance chief - Chicago Sun-Times politics, Cook-County-Board-President-Toni-Preckwinkle-has-chosen-a-one-time- comptroller-for-the-city-of-Chicago-as-the-county's-new. www.suntimes.com/.../malhance-preckwinkle-county-worked-...

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Obama says jobs will be 'main topic' of Tuesday's State of the Union CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- President Barack Obama said jobs and the economy would be central to his upcoming State of the Union address in a videotaped preview of the speech that was sent to supporters on Saturday. "My principal focus, my number ... See all stories on this topic »

Vikram Pandit's Expertise And Experience Paid Off…In A Big Way AtomStack By Mary Phillips on January 22, 2011, 5:14 pm Richard Parsons, chair of Citigroup Inc.'s board, said in Friday's filing that the board is "very pleased" with the progress that the bank has made under Pandit's leadership. Parsons said Pandit has "worked ... See all stories on this topic » AtomStack

Don't Bank on It Wall Street Journal By AL LEWIS Disappointing earnings, shrinking revenues and optimism that somehow the economy is improving despite an ongoing housing hangover -- this is what America's biggest banks offered as they released year-end financial results last week. ... See all stories on this topic »

Stocks fall after seven straight weeks of gains Washington Post US stocks fell, ending the longest weekly winning streak for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index since 2007, after Goldman Sachs Group and Citigroup failed to beat analysts' earnings estimates and housing starts slid more than forecast. ... See all stories on this topic »

Maybe Japan Was Just a Warm-Up New York Times By STEVE LOHR IN the 1980s, the United States faced an unnerving challenge from a rising economic powerhouse and export dynamo. It was an impressive challenger, to be sure, but one that often bent rules of global competition unfairly to its advantage ... See all stories on this topic »

US EPA approves 15% ethanol fuel Bizjournals.com The US Environmental Protection Agency has given the green light to a controversial boost in the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline used by cars and light trucks manufactured between 2001 and 2006. The EPA on Oct. 13, 2010, granted a waiver for E15 ... See all stories on this topic » Bizjournals.com

MediaNews to buy northern Colorado-based Lehman Communications Denver Post By Aldo Svaldi MediaNews Group, owner of The Denver Post, said Friday it will acquire Lehman Communications, owner of the Longmont Times-Call, in a move that will boost its presence in northern Colorado. Prairie Mountain Publishing Co., ... See all stories on this topic »

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Idaho jobless rate surpasses US level The Spokesman Review Idaho's unemployment rate climbed to 9.5 percent in December, pushing the share of people looking for work above the national rate for the first time in nine years, the state Department of Labor said Friday. The state rate had matched the 9.4 percent ... See all stories on this topic »

China to US: boost exports to trim surplus AFP CHICAGO — China said it would welcome greater US exports to the fast-growing Asian economy, rejecting blame for its large and politically sensitive trade surplus over the United States. As President Hu Jintao wound up a state visit to the United States ... See all stories on this topic »

Strong Stocks and Euro, Weak Dollar on GE's Earnings Financial Feed After a weak 2 days, stocks bounced back. Strong euro is on its 8-week high versus the dollar and against 14 more out of 16 currencies. Companies' earnings such as General Electric Co.'s are higher than estimates while commodities gain is led by sugar ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Feed

US Stocks Decline, S&P 500 Ends Longest Weekly Winning Streak Since 2007 Bloomberg By Whitney Kisling - Sat Jan 22 05:01:00 GMT 2011 Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Deborah Kostroun reports on the performance of the US equity market today. US stocks advanced, paring the Standard & Poor's 500 Index's first weekly decline since ... See all stories on this topic »

'Exciting march through time': A look at where the Times-Call has been Longmont Daily Times-Call On Feb. 1, 1957, Ed and Ruth Lehman bought the Longmont Times-Call. On Jan. 20, 2011, Ed Lehman and his son, Dean, announced they are selling it. The newspaper will retain Colorado ownership, something it always has had. Dean and Ed Lehman, ... See all stories on this topic »

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Euro Gains Amid Optimism Leaders Will Act to Ease Debt Crisis BusinessWeek By Catarina Saraiva Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The euro rose against all its major counterparts as speculation increased that European policy makers will craft a long-term approach to handle the region's sovereign-debt crisis. The 17-nation euro advanced ... See all stories on this topic »

Shake-up at Google seen as effort targeting Facebook NASDAQ Internet search giant Google (GOOG) promoted a co-founder to take on a rising generation of Internet companies, the foremost of which is Facebook, Bloomberg reports. Larry Page was named on Thursday as chief executive officer, which pushed Eric Schmidt ... See all stories on this topic »

Gold Heads for Third Weekly Loss on Interest-Rate Outlook Bloomberg Gold fell, heading for a third straight weekly loss, on speculation that borrowing costs will rise as the economy recovers, eroding the metal's appeal as an alternative investment. Silver dropped to a seven-week low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ... See all stories on this topic »

Obama Administration May Delay Fannie-Freddie Proposal WTMA Photo Courtesy - Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The government may not release a proposal on the restructuring of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before the Congressional deadline of Jan. 31. The overhaul of Fannie and Freddie has been a delicate and urgent ... See all stories on this topic »

NTSB report cites faulty weld San Francisco Chronicle An inferior weld on the seam of the San Bruno gas pipeline was overstressed to the breaking point at the time of the line's deadly explosion, according to a detailed scientific analysis released Friday by federal transportation safety officials. ... See all stories on this topic »

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Deutsche Gulf launches expat home finance campaign | Deutsche Bank ... Deutsche Gulf Finance announced the launch of a new home finance product that is specifically designed for expats living in Saudi. The campaign also coincides with an educational workshop that is... ExcitingAds! AME Info Latest News - http://www.ameinfo.com/news/New/

Budgeting Survey / Roundup - Personal Finance By The Book By joeplemon If you want to learn more about personal finance please subscribe to Personal Finance By The Book RSS feed or via email to receive all the latest articles! Leave a Comment. Name *. E-mail *. Website. Notify me of followup comments via ... Personal Finance By The Book - http://personalfinancebythebook.com/

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California unemployment rate ticks up to 12.5% Los Angeles Times California adds just 4900 jobs in December, with the government and construction sectors shedding thousands of positions. LA County's unemployment rate hits 13%. A woman and child approach a beauty salon with a "help wanted" sign in the window in East ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Firm to stop making drug Detroit Free Press Compiled from reports by AP In the last several months, a growing shortage of the drug, sodium thiopental, has forced some states to put executions on hold. The problem is likely to get worse. Hospira of Lake Forest, Ill., said it decided in recent ... See all stories on this topic »

EPA Permits 15% Ethanol for Cars Made After 2001 Bloomberg By Mario Parker and Kim Chipman - Fri Jan 21 19:14:58 GMT 2011 The Environmental Protection Agency granted a request from ethanol producers to raise the amount of the corn-based additive in gasoline for vehicles made for the 2001 model year and later. ... See all stories on this topic »

Time for a Breather…but Just a Breather Barron's By TIERNAN RAY | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR Apple and Google have lagged a bit of late, and both have announced slightly unsettling executive changes. But their opportunities are huge. It was the week of the disappearing executives. ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook Raises $1.5 Billion From Investors Wall Street Journal By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and LIZ RAPPAPORT Facebook Inc. raised $1 billion from investors in a deal arranged by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. that values the fast-growing company at $50 billion, in the social-networking company's largest funding to date. ... See all stories on this topic »

Dollar Reaches 2-Month Low Versus Euro on Debt-Crisis Views, US Economy Bloomberg By Catarina Saraiva - Wed Jan 19 22:05:47 GMT 2011 The dollar fell to the lowest in almost two months against the euro amid signs the US economic recovery will remain sluggish and speculation European officials are addressing the region's debt crisis. ... See all stories on this topic »

Google CEO Change Sparks Mixed Feelings Among Analysts eWeek Analysts reacted differently to Google CEO Eric Schmidt's pledge to vacate his role this April, leaving Google co-founder Larry Page in his place. Google CEO Eric Schmidt's announcement that he is relinquishing his title to company co-founder Larry ... See all stories on this topic »

US Airways, Expedia reach multiyear deal Denver Post By Mary Schlangenstein Despite a dispute with American Airlines, Expedia plans to work with US Airways so passengers can pick certain seats for an extra fee. (Wilfredo Lee, The Associated Press file photo ) US Airways Group Inc. reached a new multiyear ... See all stories on this topic »

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Friday Finance Findings for January 21st By Jeremy I know readers come from all corners of the globe, but those of you who reside in much of the U.S. have had quite a winter thus far, myself included. It seems. Generation X Finance - http://genxfinance.com/

PragPro: Campaign Finance Reform, NOW By Pragpro The artificial inclusion of our lobbying structures alienates people from their self-evident rights of redress of grievance, is dilutes equality, it costs the US trillions in misappropriated money and uncollected taxes, campaign finance ... PragPro - http://thepragmaticprogressive.blogspot.com/

French Finance Minister: No China Angle to Renault Case | China ... By Samuel Wade French Finance Minister: No China Angle to Renault Case. The minister, Christine Lagarde, denies suggestions of Chinese involvement in the alleged industrial espionage described by her Industry counterpart as "economic warfare". ... China Digital Times (CDT) - http://chinadigitaltimes.net/

The Internet of Things | Big Fat Finance Blog By Alan Radding The Internet of things has the potential to change our businesses and our lives as much as or possibly more than today's Internet. It has been a long time in .. . Big Fat Finance Blog - http://bigfatfinanceblog.com/

AgriBank finds a deal in downtown St. Paul - Finance & Commerce By Mark Anderson This entry was posted on Friday, January 21st, 2011 at 3:56 pm and is filed under Finance & Banking, Real Estate. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed. ... Finance & Commerce - http://finance-commerce.com/

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Bank of America posts big loss Washington Post A Bank of America loan servicer helps homeowners modify their mortgage at an event Thursday in Los Angeles. (Jonathan Alcorn) By David S. Hilzenrath The toll from the housing crisis could continue to weigh on Bank of America, draining billions of ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Post

Citigroup's Pandit Gets Raise, Morgan Stanley's CEO Takes Less BusinessWeek By Donal Griffin Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. boosted Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit's base salary to $1.75 million from $1 after the bank's first profit for a year under his watch as Wall Street firms announced pay packages for top ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook Raises $1.5B In Private Placement Led By Goldman Sachs Wall Street Journal Social-networking company Facebook Inc. said it raised $1.5 billion, a transaction that included a controversial private placement led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) that values the company at $50 billion. On Friday, Goldman Sachs completed an ... See all stories on this topic »

Alaska's unemployment rate hits 8.1 percent Anchorage Daily News Alaska's unemployment rate rose slightly to 8.1 percent last month, the state Department of Labor said Friday. That rate is up from 8 percent in November. The statewide jobless rate, when adjusted for seasonal factors, has hung just above or just below ... See all stories on this topic »

US 10-Year Yields Rise by Most in 6 Weeks on Economic Outlook BusinessWeek By Cordell Eddings and Daniel Kruger Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Treasuries fell, pushing up 10-year note yields the most in six weeks, as economic reports in the US and Europe bolstered speculation the global recovery is building momentum and damped ... See all stories on this topic »

Company to stop making drug commonly used in executions Washington Post By Rob Stein The US company that makes a drug most states use in lethal injection announced Friday that it would no longer produce the powerful anesthetic, a decision that throws capital punishment in the United States into disarray. ... See all stories on this topic »

EPA backs broader use of ethanol Houston Chronicle By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY Copyright 2011 Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON — Over the objections of oil refiners and automakers, the US Environmental Protection Agency on Friday endorsed the use of more ethanol-blended fuel in most passenger cars. ... See all stories on this topic »

Single currency bolstered by eurozone sentiment Financial Times By Peter Garnham The euro hit a two-month high against the dollar this week as fears over the eurozone debt crisis eased. Investors took a more sanguine view over the problems in the region despite reports that Greece was in discussions to restructure ... See all stories on this topic »

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Bank of America: Probably Still Screwed CNBC Brian Moynihan looked and sounded confident this morning as he closed out his first year as President and CEO of Bank of America. [BAC Loading... () ] posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $1.24 billion, or 16 cents a share. Analysts had expected the ... See all stories on this topic »

A Creator Prepares to Take the Reins at Google New York Times By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER SAN FRANCISCO — Things that get Larry Page excited: tossing around programming lingo with engineers, picking the brains of scientists and championing ideas that belong in science-fiction novels, like cars that drive themselves. ... See all stories on this topic »

Dow Rises for Eighth Week in Row TheStreet.com By Shanthi Bharatwaj 01/21/11 - 05:35 PM EST NEW YORK (TheStreet) - The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose on Friday, thanks to an earnings-inspired rally in General Electric(GE), but the Nasdaq Composite continued to slip. The Dow gained 49 points, ... See all stories on this topic » TheStreet.com

DealBook: Facebook Raises $1.5 Billion in New Financing New York Times By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED Facebook announced on Friday that it had raised $1.5 billion in new financing led by Goldman Sachs. The investments include $500 million from Goldman Sachs and the Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, ... See all stories on this topic »

Citi CEO Pandit's salary soars to $1.75 million from $1 Reuters Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit testifies before the Congressional Oversight Panel hearing on the government's assistance to Citigroup in Washington March 4, 2010. By Maria Aspan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (CN) Chief Executive Vikram Pandit got a ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

Regulators shut banks in NC, SC, Ga, Colo The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators on Friday closed banks in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Colorado, bringing to seven the number of closures in 2011 following last year's toll of 157 bank failures amid the limping economy and mounting bad ... See all stories on this topic »

Brazilian Rate Rise; Capital Is Flying Down To Rio Forbes (blog) By STEPHEN POPE In my "Global Outlook 2011", see www.spotlightideas.net, I wrote; "…In 2011 the general view is that inflation will gather pace driven by higher food costs. CPI is set to rise by 5.15% which is higher than the June estimate of 5.05%. ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes (blog)

Morgan Stanley named in Galleon case Financial Times By Kara Scannell in New York A Morgan Stanley banker allegedly leaked details of a takeover deal, which was ultimately passed to Galleon Group co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, prosecutors say. The new allegation, which was revealed in a letter sent to Mr ... See all stories on this topic »

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