Israel Passes Law Banning Undocumented Immigrants From Sending Money Out Of The Country
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PIMCO Leader Takes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke To Task Over Low Interest Rates, Saying They Aren't Working And May Be Part Of The Problem
PIMCO's Bill Gross, head of the world's largest bond fund, critiqued Ben Bernanke's bond policy, saying the Fed is as much at fault as Congress.
European Central Bank (ECB) Wins Ruling To Keep Greek Documents Secret
The European Central Bank won the right to keep documents about Greece's finances secret.
New York State To Sue HSBC Over Foreclosure Abuses
HSBC took too long to file for judicial intervention in foreclosure cases in four New York counties, the N.Y. state attorney general said.
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Royal Bank Of Scotland Should Split: Parliamentary Draft Report
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US Real Estate Drawing Foreigners Seeking Decent Yields, They Favor Big Urban Commercial Properties
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Japan’s Govt Prepares To Ask Pension Funds To Review Investment Strategy As Part Of New Growth Plan
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U.S. Regulators Propose To Term AIG, Prudential, GE Capital As ‘Systemically Important,’ Place Them Under Tighter Federal Scrutiny
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As online payment systems proliferate, the U.S. Federal Reserve has cast a wary eye.
Chinese Model, Age 19, Became Second-Largest Shareholder In Zhejiang Orient With More Than 6 Million Shares Worth 60 Million Yuan In A Company Right Before Shares Jump 47%
A 19-year-old Chinese model bought 60 million yuan of stock in a company whose shares then jumped 47 percent. Was she a straw buyer?
Rhode Island Firm Makes Unusual Bid to Buy Greek Sovereign Debt
Rhode Island’s Japonica Partners seeks to buy 2.9 billion euros worth of Greek bonds from major bondholders.
US Monthly Unemployment Report, May US Auto Sales, ECB Interest Rate Decision, Global Manufacturing Reports: Economic Events For June 3-7
The prospect that the U.S. central bank will turn off its monetary spigot hangs like a specter over this week’s economic reports.
Obama Launches Showdown With Republicans Over Student Loan Rates
The president called on Congress to stop federal student loan interest rates from doubling, setting the stage for a showdown with the GOP.
Is Thailand Using Burmese Slave Labor On Its Boats? A New Report Says Yes
A British nongovernmental organization documented more than a dozen cases of migrant workers enslaved on Thai fishing boats.
South African Rand Falling Fastest Among Emerging Market Currencies That Are Weakening Against US Dollar
The currency's new low, 10.13 rand per U.S. dollar, is part of a broader investor sell-off in 20 emerging market currencies.
US Treasury Bond Sell Off Is “For Real," Says Goldman Sachs In Client Note
Goldman Sachs analysts said in a research report Friday that a mass sale of U.S. Treasury bonds is under way.
The Latest Bloomberg Spying Drama? Apparently The CEO Is Peeved At The Editor-In-Chief
Bloomberg LP CEO Dan Doctoroff wants to hold Editor-in-Chief Matt Winkler more accountable for the data terminal snooping mess.
Bank Of China To Offer $4 Billion And Morgan Stanley $3 Billion In Funding Of Shuanghui's Acquisition Of Smithfield Foods
The banks have provided term loans to finance the Smithfield deal, the largest purchase of an American company by a Chinese company.
US Consumer Sentiment Climbs To 84.5 In May, Besting Analyst Predictions: Thomson Reuters/U Of Michigan Index
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s index on consumer sentiment came in unexpectedly stronger in May.
Four Years After 'Great Recession' US Families Have Yet To Regain Even Half Of The Household Debt Lost: St. Louis Federal Reserve
The damage to U.S. household balance sheets has fallen disproportionately on minorities and the uneducated.
Madonna, The Material Girl, Sells Upper West Side New York City Co-Op To Hedge Fund Titan Deepak Narula
Madonna is collecting a hair less than $20 million in the sale of her fancy co-op near New York City's Central Park.
Bleeding Money: Africa Is A Net Creditor To The World, Illicit Outflow Actually Exceeds Inflow Of Aid, Investment
The illicit outflow of assets from Africa actually exceeds the amount of aid and investment coming in, says a new report.
Unemployment Rates: How Many Will Have Jobs In The OECD In 2014? [Infographic]
In 2014, Greece's unemployment will likely hit another record-high of 28.4 percent.
Is Europe Scrapping Its Proposed Financial Transaction Tax? It's Certainly Watered Down
The tax, originally championed by Germany and France, has been largely defanged after banks and trading groups lobbied against it.
European Economic Sentiment Edges Upwards
Increased confidence among businesses, save construction, led to improved indicators, especially in Italy, France and Germany.
US GDP For First Quarter Revised Slightly Down By Commerce Department's Bureau Of Economic Analysis To 2.4% From 2.5%
Analysts said the revised GDP stat is better than it appears: The 2.4% gain occurred despite a 4.9% plunge in government spending.
General David Petreaus, Former CIA Chief And Top US Army Commander In Iraq And Afghanistan, Joins Giant Hedge Fund KKR As Adviser
The 60-year-old war hero and former head of U.S. intelligence is going from "doing good" to "doing well."
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NV Energy, James River Coal Co, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Facebook and MEMC Electronic Materials prevailed in pre-market trading on Thursday.
Japan’s Overbought Nikkei Stock Exchange Sheds Over 5% Thursday But Still Up 30% From Start Of Year
Japan's stock market gained 50% since November amid the country’s economic turnaround plan; now comes the technical correction.
US Stock Futures Signal Slightly Lower Open Ahead Of GDP, Jobless Claims Data
U.S. stock futures point to modest losses at open on Thursday as markets await GDP and jobless claims data.
EU Moves Away From Austerity As Region Struggles With Recovery
The EU moved away from austerity in a marked shift in policy on Wednesday allowing more time for nations to meet deficit reduction targets.
Germany Close To Winning Fight To Keep State Control Over Volkswagen
The European Commission still wants Germany to overturn a law giving Lower Saxony a veto power over Volkswagen's management.
Paul Ryan, Leading Republican Fiscal Conservative, Endorses Call by Apple CEO Tim Cook To Repatriate Foreign Earnings, Provided The Tax On Such Earnings Is Cut
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan urges repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. companies, if the tax on those earnings is cut from its current 35%.
Chinese Meat Producer Shuanghui Group Buying Smithfield Foods For $4.7B, CFIUS Approval Not Certain
Smithfield Foods appears to have succumbed to activist shareholder pressure to return more value to investors.
Bank Of Israel Slashes Lending Rate To 1.25% In Effort to Curb The Appreciation Of Shekel
The Bank of Israel is taking a pointer from Abenomics in another harbinger of what could be a spreading global currency war.
Gold Prices Could Rise As Central Banks, Pessimistic Investors Lay Groundwork For Rebound: UBS
Prospects for a gold price hike may be a mirage, or they may be more solid.
Iran Shells Out $4B Line Of Credit to Assad's Government In Syria
Iran has extended lines of credit worth a total of $4 billion in hopes of propping up the Assad regime's oil holdings.
Arthur Budovsky, Founder Of Liberty Reserve, Arrested In Spain; Business Allegedly Facilitated Money Laundering By Converting Cash Into Bitcoin Digital Currency
Liberty Reserve allegedly facilitated the transnational movement of large sums obtained by criminal activities.
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