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Wells cashes in on mortgage boom
財富中文網 2009-04-11 01:27The big bank's fat first quarter is the result of a federally backed mortgage-refinancing surge. Still, some say banks aren't out of the woods yet.By ...
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Death by mortgage
財富中文網 2009-09-14 05:55How the rise of real estate led to the fall of Lehman.By Ben Stein"It takes two to make an accident.... I hate careless people."-- Jordan Baker, the s...
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End of refi boom no worry for big banks
Colin Barr 2009-06-09 12:40The recent uptick in mortgage rates shouldn't derail profits at JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and BofA due to their stranglehold on the market.By Colin ...
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Wells Fargo: the least bad big bank
Colin Barr 2010-10-27 01:41Wells Fargo is looking like the best horse in the big-bank glue factory, judging by one measure of its apparent exposure to souring mortgages.That is ...
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Geithner promises mortgage fix
Colin Barr 2010-03-27 01:27A long-awaited renovation of mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could start to take shape this year, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told C...
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The baby-carrying boom
Colin Barr 2010-09-22 02:45There's a bull market in babywearing.So says Joe Massoud, who runs the Compass Diversified Holdings (CODI) investment company in Westport, Conn. Compa...
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高盛或因信息披露再次面臨監管機構起訴
Stephen Gandel 2012-03-01 09:53吸血鬼烏賊的觸角可能再遭痛擊,甚至更糟。周二,高盛(Goldman Sachs)公告稱,美國證券交易委員會(Securities and Exchange Commission,簡稱SEC)正在考慮對其提起訴訟,指控它在2006年底的一宗次級抵押貸款債券交易中存在不當行為。高盛稱,指控將涉及其作為1...
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The premature clean-tech IPO boom
Shelley DuBois 2010-08-20 05:49Early-stage green technology companies are taking a page from the biotech playbook: IPO with little or no revenues. So far, it's not working.A number ...
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Boom times for U.S. farmers
Colin Barr 2010-08-17 01:13The government said Thursday that worldwide wheat stocks are dwindling, as big wheat seller Russia and its neighbors slash exports. The agriculture de...
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Volcanic activity: Businesses winning the Iceland 'boom'
Dody Tsiantar 2010-04-27 01:34There's a silver lining to every cloud, even the one made up of volcanic ash. While air carriers are licking their wounds from losing an estimated $20...