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Theft possible in mystery of Mint's missing gold

National Post (Canada) | 1 hour 36 minutes ago

At the Royal Canadian Mint, the big question remains unanswered: What the heck happened to our gold?... (more)


France May Seek to Arrange Societe Generale-Dexia Merger, WanSquare Says

Bloomberg | 2 hours 41 minutes ago

President Nicolas Sarkozy's office, state-owned bank Caisse des Depots et Consignations and the Agence des Participations de l'Etat may have prepared a plan to combine Societe Generale and municipal lender Dexia, WanSquare said, without providing a timeframe for the project.... (more)


Old questions

Business Standard (India) | 2 hours 56 minutes ago

Old questionsFiona Maharg-Bravo /  November 23, 2009, 0:16 IST... (more)


Goldman Sachs to take out garbage at Thanksgiving

Yahoo! | 3 hours 25 minutes ago

NEW YORK ? The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across the city this Thanksgiving meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one of New York's ritziest caterers and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.... (more)


CFTC chief Gary Gensler is out to police financial Wild West

USA TODAY | 3 hours 39 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - After a meteoric career on Wall Street, Gary Gensler co-wrote a book warning mom-and-pop investors to stick to index funds and ignore the hype about superstar stock pickers like ... his identical twin, Robert.... (more)


Progress at Oak Knoll -- buildings coming down

San Jose Mercury News (Calif.) | 4 hours 23 minutes ago

Lehman Brothers will spend $3.7 million to complete the demolition of more than 90 buildings at the former Oak Knoll Naval base that are targets for vandals and squatters, the Oakland City Attorney's Office announced last week.... (more)


BAY STREET-Canada banks to cap 2009 with decent quarter

Reuters | 5 hours 30 minutes ago

TORONTO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - It was supposed to be a year of blood-letting, but Canada's big banks are poised to close 2009 with another decent quarter as strong trading revenues again offset big loan losses.... (more)


Commentary: Break up those 'too big to fail' firms

Kansas City Star (Mo.), The | 9 hours 41 minutes ago

We are in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. More than 27 million American workers are either unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work. The immediate cause of this economic catastrophe is the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior of a small number of Wall Street firms that brought the financial system to the verge of collapse.... (more)


Israel Corp. sends another $21m to Better Place

Globes (Israel) | 11 hours 23 minutes ago

Israel Corporation (TASE: ) on Friday injected an additional $21 million into Better Place LLC. The sum is Israel Corp.'s share, based its proportional holding in the company, of a general capital injection decided on by Better Place's board of directors. ... (more)




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