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TVNewsCheck - Dow Climbs 133, Nasdaq Finishes Up 30
TVNewsCheck | 19 hours 3 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Investors halted a three-day losing streak on the stock market Monday, sending prices broadly higher on a weaker dollar and better-than-expected home sales numbers.... (more)
Telegent plans to raise $250M in IPO
American City Business Journals | 19 hours 15 minutes ago
Telegent Systems Inc. said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to raise about $250 million in an initial public offering.... (more)
Wall Street: Is It Good to Apologize for Greed?
MSNBC | 19 hours 41 minutes ago
What would J.P. Morgan have said about regret expressed by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein? History tells us the apology was a savvy investment... (more)
Lloyds grows in confidence as institutional investors jump at new CoCos
Times (London), The | 19 hours 43 minutes ago
Lloyds Banking Group will price its mammoth £13.5 billion rights issue with renewed confidence on Tuesday after a pioneering new bond offer by the bank was significantly oversubscribed by institutional investors.... (more)
Lehman, Bear Executives' $2.4 Billion Tied to Risk-Taking in Harvard Study
Bloomberg | 19 hours 47 minutes ago
The top five officials at Lehman, which filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, received $1.03 billion in cash bonuses and proceeds from equity sales during the period, according to the report, â??The Wages of Failure,â?? released today by Harvard Law School's Program on Corporate Governance. Bear Stearns's top executives made $1.46 billion in the years before JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to buy the firm in 2008.... (more)
Canadian shares rally as miners take off
Investor's Business Daily | 20 hours 18 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Canadian shares jumped Monday as gold prices notched record highs, lifting mining stocks and joining a global equities rally helped by comments from a Federal Reserve official, suggesting that the United States may extend some monetary-stimulus programs.... (more)
Cienas Tom Mock explains Nortel auction win
Telephony Online | 20 hours 18 minutes ago
Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN) is set to roughly double in size ? both in revenue and headcount ? after having beat Nokia Siemens in an auction of Nortel Networks metro Ethernet business (which includes its optical business but not its fiber access or Passport multiservice switch products). Tom Mock, Cienas senior vice president of strategic planning, shed more light on the deal in an interview with Connected Planet this morning.... (more)
Video Webcast Alert: Banco Bradesco S.A. Announces Bradesco Day in New York Webcast
Investor's Business Daily | 20 hours 21 minutes ago
SAO PAULO, Nov 23, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Banco Bradesco S.A. (BBD) announces the following webcast:... (more)
Verizon launches FiOS in Philly
CEDMagazine.com | 20 hours 26 minutes ago
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ConvergEx Acquires NorthPoint Trading Partners Prime Broker Business
Wall Street & Technology | 20 hours 27 minutes ago
Acquisition of NorthPoint adds established boutique prime broker platform to ConvergEx's suite of services.... (more)
Pimco's Bill Gross: Anything but .01%
InvestmentNews | 20 hours 30 minutes ago
The following is a monthly market commentary written by Pimco's Bill Gross, that was recently published on Pensions & Investments, a sister publication to InvestmentNews.... (more)
Smith International, Inc. Closes Previously Announced Public Offering of Common Stock
CNBC | 21 hours 6 minutes ago
HOUSTON, Nov 23, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Smith International, Inc. (NYSE: SII) ("Smith") today announced that it has closed its previously announced public offering of 28,000,000 shares of its common stock at $26.50 per share. The net proceeds from the offering will be used for debt repayment, general corporate purposes, and funding of potential acquisitions or investments.... (more)
Weak dollar, home sales data carry stocks higher
Yahoo! | 21 hours 13 minutes ago
NEW YORK ? Investors halted stocks' three-day losing streak Monday, buying across the market on a range of factors including the weaker dollar and better-than-expected home sales numbers.... (more)
Retirement Readiness Varies Widely By Industry: Study
Forbes | 22 hours 17 minutes ago
Goldman employees lag; pilots' packages soar.... (more)
Ossie's casino
Economist, The | 22 hours 22 minutes ago
UBS wants to grow, but its supervisors want it to shrink... (more)
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