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Chairman Frank proposes ‘death panels’ for giant banks
The chairman of a key congressional panel Monday scaled back important parts of the Obama administration's plan to dismantle financial institutions that are deemed "too big to fail." | 10/26/09 18:10:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
Are Fed, Treasury finally giving banks tough love?
In a frontal assault on the U.S. banking system, the Federal Reserve proposed Thursday to review the pay practices of America's largest banks, while the Treasury Department outlined why it slashed executive pay at financial institutions that are receiving substantial taxpayer bailouts. | 10/22/09 19:14:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
Proposed federal watchdog for consumer finance advances
Consumer advocates cheered and the financial sector jeered Thursday as a controversial plan to create a federal agency to regulate mortgages, credit cards and other forms of consumer credit cleared a key House of Representatives committee on its way to an uncertain future. | 10/22/09 17:57:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
SEC frowns on trading systems that keep investors in the dark
The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed on Wednesday new steps that could soon bring more oversight over private trading systems that go by the ominous sounding name of "dark pools." | 10/21/09 17:08:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
Bill to tighten rules on ratings agencies has big loopholes
A key House of Representatives committee is set to vote soon on legislation that would overhaul financial regulation and produce greater transparency for investors, but as it's now written it fails to address many of the credit-rating agency missteps that helped fuel the global financial crisis. | 10/20/09 19:01:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
How Moody's sold its ratings - and sold out investors
As the housing market collapsed in late 2007, Moody's Investors Service, whose investment ratings were widely trusted, responded by purging analysts and executives who warned of trouble and promoting those who helped Wall Street plunge the country into its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. | 10/18/09 06:00:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
Moody's responses to McClatchy's questions
MCCLATCHY: Having spoken to a large number of Moody's managers, mid-level and higher, who were present in 06-08 period, they all paint a picture in which the bottom is beginning to fall out of the housing market. | 10/18/09 06:00:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
House panel ready to pass sweeping reform of exotic finance
A key congressional panel is poised to approve Thursday a sweeping overhaul of laws governing the trading of complex and often exotic financial instruments that helped trigger a near meltdown of global finance. | 10/14/09 18:09:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
Watchdog: Obama's mortgage relief efforts aren't good enough
The Obama administration's efforts to force the modifications of distressed mortgages, while laudable, is likely to fall far short because the foreclosure crisis has grown and threatens to dwarf government efforts to relieve it, a special congressional watchdog panel warned in a report released Friday. | 10/09/09 00:01:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
Democrats in Congress push Obama for Iran sanctions
Congressional Democrats pushed the Obama administration on Tuesday to get behind tough economic sanctions against Iran, and they voiced deep skepticism that direct negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear ambitions will prove fruitful. | 10/06/09 18:10:00 By - Kevin G. Hall and Warren P. Strobel
For Brazil, Olympics mean the future finally has arrived
For the longest time, a joke about Brazil made the rounds in the halls of international financial organizations: Latin America's largest and most populous nation had a great future -- and always would. | 10/02/09 18:52:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
Unemployment rate is highest in 26 years
The September unemployment numbers announced Friday were a reality check for anyone who was thinking that strong economic growth was just around the corner. | 10/02/09 10:38:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
How Chavez may have spoiled ousted Honduran leader's return
An accidental betrayal by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may have forced the ousted leader of this Central American nation to seek refuge in the Brazilian embassy here on Sept. 21 as world leaders gathered in New York for a United Nations General Assembly meeting. | 09/30/09 20:32:00 By - Kevin G. Hall and Tyler Bridges
How Canada runs its own consumer finance protection agency
Doom and gloom warnings from U.S. banks that a proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency would raise borrowing costs for consumers and restrict access to credit for small businesses haven't played out in Canada, which has had a similar agency since 2001. | 09/30/09 16:32:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
Authors: U.S. economic crisis was long time in the making
Americans have always assumed that financial crises happen in basket-case countries, not here. So how then did the U.S. follow the lead of Argentina, Mexico and Thailand by plunging into this one? | 09/29/09 17:08:00 By - Kevin G. Hall
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