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Greece and Spain’s Debt Death-Spiral Is a Lethal Game of Peek-a-Boo
15 january 2013 Through the summer, the plight of Greece and then Spain had all the hallmarks of a catastrophe, ending in a Euro-exit and massive currency devaluation, but after…
Fed Announces New Treasury Buying Plan; Investors Uninspired
15 january 2013 US stocks finished the week relatively flat as Fiscal Cliff negotiations dragged on. The Fed continued to innovate. The central bank announced it will begin buying $45…
Topless Kate Middleton? Nothing Compared To Bank Secrecy Laid Bare
15 january 2013 What a small and seamless world! When a French photographer named Valerie Suau (pronounced “sewer” no kidding) snaps a royal’s breasts, wigged British lawyers traipse into French court…
Too Big To Fail or Much Ado About Nothing? What Dodd-Frank Means to Small Businesses
15 january 2013 “Dodd- Frank…designates a number of banks as too big to fail, and they’re effectively guaranteed by the federal government. This is the biggest kiss that’s been given…
Quartet FS Helps Financial Risk Management Move To Real Time
15 january 2013 Risk, regulation and business growth will be a challenging combination for major banks, but the best will find ways to make them work together, even with tight…
Should Banks be Ethical, Sustainable and Boring?
15 january 2013 In this week’s announcement that the Co-op Bank would being taking over 632 branches of Lloyds Banking Group in the UK, Co-op’s CEO, Peter Marks made clear…
Apple: Seven Reasons iPhones and iPods Boost December Quarter – Quantified
15 january 2013 Pent-up demand for iPhone 5 is evident in pre-orders. Each successive iPhone launch gets frothier (still) than the previous one. Sales of the iPhone 4S were 1M…
The Best Way to Find Loads of Cash? Try a Labrador Retriever
15 january 2013 A Labrador dog named Stella, with a nose well trained for big money was all over American TV news programs the other day as the latest weapon…
Euro Has Upside Here, But Beware The Tricks Of The Season
15 january 2013 A lack of progress in the US budget negotiations is keeping investors on edge. The fiscal cliff in the US remains a top priority as political verbal…
Did Deloitte Compromise Independence in McClellan Insider Trading Scandal?
15 january 2013 There are plenty of sexy externalities associated with the latest insider trading charges against a former Deloitte tax partner and his wife. Spicing things up: A May-December marriage,…
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