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• Caution Called For In $700 Billion Bailout Plan

  Friday’s elated response at stock exchanges, to US Federal Government’s proposal to buy troubled assets from financial institutions was short-lived as reality set in with regard to the sheer ...

• Wall Street Reshuffle Continues

  Continuing with the extraordinary restructuring taking place on Wall Street, such as has not been seen since the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve confirmed on Sunday 21 September that ...

• Washington Plans Further Aid for Financial Institutions

  In an attempt to contain the ongoing financial crisis, the U.S. Government plans to assist embattled financial institutions by directly addressing mortgage-related issues. The announcement ...

• Investors Remain Apprehensive Despite AIG Bailout

  The Federal Reserve’s $85 billion life-line thrown to AIG late Tuesday, has done little or nothing to boost confidence in the U.S. financial sector. Wall Street experienced yet another ...

• U.S. Federal Reserve Puts AIG Rescue Plan into Action

  In the face of American International Group’s failure to raise much-needed capital, and the reluctance of the private sector in throwing a life-line to the company, the U.S. Federal Reserve ...

• Wall Street Woes Intensify

  Following an eventful weekend in financial circles that saw two of Wall Street’s iconic firms, Lehman Brothers Holdings and Merrill Lynch, heading for disaster, traders quite justifiably ...

• Lehman, Merrill, AIG Exacerbate Financial Sector Challenges

  Factors which will no doubt play a major role in the markets on Monday 15 September, especially in the financial sector, include the fact that Wall Street stalwart Lehman Brothers Holdings ...

• Market Responds Positively to Billionaire Slim’s Investment in New York Times

  New York Times shares rose by 9.1percent to $15.23 at 4:15 pm on Thursday after it was revealed that 6.4 percent of the publisher’s publicly traded stock has been bought by Carlos Slim Helú. ...

• Psychemedics Corporation Confirms Switch from AMEX to NASDAQ

  Psychemedics Corporation announced yesterday that the decision to move the company’s common stock listing from the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) to NASDAQ has been approved by its board of ...

• LSE’s Technology Woes May Prove Beneficial for Competitors

  Recent rumblings of concern with regard to the increase in algorithmic, or black-box, trading, as well as stock exchanges becoming too reliant on technology, may very well be valid when ...

• Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Placed Under U.S. Government “Conservatorship”

  In what has been described as the world’s biggest emergency nationalization ever, the U.S. government stepped in once again to rescue ailing mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. ...

• Dividend-Paying Stocks May Balance Out Investor Portfolios in Volatile Market

  At one time considered to be an integral aspect of an investor’s portfolio, stock dividends have taken a back seat in recent years as investors turned to shares that offered greater capital ...