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• Chris Whalen to Bloomberg: Shut Up

  BNET - 2009-09-24

  Chris Whalen says the FDIC's deposit insurance fund is in no danger of going kaput. The noted banking analyst sent an open letter responding to a piece today by Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Well saying the fund is "broke." Presumably, the message is also aimed at other credulous financial journos (of...

  Tags: Bank, FDIC, Bloomberg L.P., Chris Whalen, Financial Services, Alain Sherter

• Early (Rumored) Stress Test Results

  BNET - 2009-05-06

  Why wait a whole day for the official results of the stress tests when there are rumors to spread? You've already heard that 10 of the 19 banks need dough, so here's a roundup of what's being bantered around 24 hours prior to the release of the...

  Tags: Bank, Bloomberg L.P., Citigroup Inc., Bank Need, Financial Services, Jill Schlesinger

• 'No Bank's Books Are Trusted': Bloomberg's Weil is Imagining Things

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-10

  Tom Brown submits: Twenty years ago, then-Wells Fargo WFC CEO Carl Reichardt impressed on me the distinction between the value of the cash flow a given asset will generate over time, and the market value of that same asset at any given moment. There can be a difference, and...

  Tags: Asset, Bank, Books, Bloomberg L.P., Seeking Alpha, Tom Brown, Jonathan Weil, Asset Management, Banking, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial

• Employers Add 274,000 Workers to Payrolls in April

  - 2005-05-16

  Bloomberg NewsU.S. employers added 274,000 workers in April - 100,000 more than economists expected - as companies shrugged off higher oil costs and bet the economy would bounce back from a firstquarter slowdown.The Department of Labor on May 6 also boosted its initial estimate for job growth in March and...

  Tags: bank, Bloomberg L.P., economist, Federal Reserve Board, job, payroll, worker

• Homebuilders less optimistic

  - 2004-09-21

  An index of U.S. homebuilder optimism fell more than expected this month after reaching the highest level of the year in August, a private survey showed. The National Association of Home Builders said its measure of builder confidence in demand for single-family houses was 68, compared with...

  Tags: bank, Bloomberg L.P., economist, Federal Reserve Board, Lennar Corp., MARKETING, SALES, survey

• BUSINESS briefs.

  - 2004-08-27

  REIT acquires two Weston industrial buildings for $30.6M Lexington Corporate Properties Trust announced Thursday that one of its joint venture investment programs has acquired two adjacent industrial facilities in Weston for a total price of $30.6 million. The New York-based real estate investment trust said...

  Tags: bank, Bloomberg L.P., Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., cholesterol, Circuit City Stores Inc., FDIC, FINANCE, Florida, Investment, MetLife Inc., REIT, U.S.

• Mahwah, N.J.-Based Bank May Be on the Auction Block.

  - 2003-08-06

  By Richard Newman, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 6--Hudson United Bancorp, one of the largest New Jersey-based banks, is reportedly for sale. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg News said Tuesday morning that the Mahwah-based bank hired...

  Tags: auction, bank, Bloomberg L.P., Morgan Stanley

• Sellside is not dead yet.

  - 2003-02-16

  Byline: Melanie Wold Market data providers are increasingly targeting buyside institutions, but have not given up on the sellside.Moneyline Telerate, a market data and technology solutions provider, is hoping to increase its penetration of big banks' trading floors that want to save money...

  Tags: bank, Bloomberg L.P., Europe, Thomson Reuters Corp.

• Downturn forces firms to rethink technology policy.

  - 2002-01-07

  Who could have predicted that a year that saw up to 95% shaved off the stock prices of some financial technology firms could only get worse? In the aftermath of September 11, financial software firms, already licking their wounds from the collapse in confidence in technology...

  Tags: bank, Bloomberg L.P., e-business, E-business/E-commerce, FINANCE, financial, INTERNET, technology, Thomson Reuters Corp.

• Central Banks and the Financial Press: What is Going Well and What can be Improved

  - 2001-10-01

  The financial press is playing a critical and growing role in communicating central bank policy. The result has been more effective central bank policy and better risk management in financial markets. A critical role of the financial press is to make monetary policy more transparent, enhanced by the increased willingness...

  Tags: bank, Bloomberg L.P., Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial