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Portrayals Of Wall Street As Greedy, Selfish And Rotten - 100 Years Ago (Photos)

1907 Puck magazine cover image uses a Humpty Dumpty reference to illustrate the state of financial capitalism. A wall of "Rotten Finance" formed by figures like John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan and Edward H. Harriman has failed to prop up
It may be surprising to many who believe that Wall Street and global finance are inherently malevolent that a century ago, the public had a very similar perception of financial services, a notion that was channeled by editorial cartoonists in hard-hitting illustrations in magazines like Puck and newspapers like the New York Herald. These cartoons would be as fitting today as they were in 1912.
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Gold's Value Up For Europeans As Exchange Deems Bullion Collateral

European investors looking to bet on risky derivatives will be able to use gold to back their trades, one of the Continent's major exchanges said Friday, a development that could both make the yellow precious metal a more valuable asset and foster the growth of derivative trading volume.
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Asian Stock Markets Gain As China CPI Growth Slows

Asian stock markets advanced for the fourth straight session Thursday after data showed that Chinese inflation continued to cool down in July, providing more room for further policy easing to boost growth.
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Standard Chartered Sparks Scrutiny of India Offshoring

Offshoring of back-office work to India, a trend among banks and accounting firms, came under new scrutiny with allegations that Standard Chartered Plc moved compliance oversight work dealing with Iranian banking transactions to India to avoid U.S. regulators.
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Asian Stocks Decline After ECB Disappoints

Asian stock markets declined Friday as sentiment was dampened after the European Central Bank (ECB) failed to offer any new stimulus measures to resolve the sovereign crisis in the euro zone.
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Asian Stock Markets Gain On Stimulus Bets

Asian stock markets advanced Tuesday, helped by expectations that the major central banks will announce further stimulus measures when they hold policy meetings later this week.
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Asian Stocks Rise On ECB, Fed Stimulus Hopes

Asian stock markets advanced Monday on renewed hopes that policy makers in U.S. and Europe will announce further stimulus measures to spur economic growth when they hold policy meetings later this week.
The more data market-watchers have seen on the economy, the less they like what they've seen. Specifically, predictions on what the government might report as the rate of GDP growth in the second-quarter of 2012 have plummeted in the past few weeks, as ec

In Advance Of Q2 US GDP Release, Forecasting Economists Race To The Bottom

The more data market-watchers have seen on the U.S. economy, the less they like what they've seen. Specifically, predictions on what the government might report as the rate of GDP growth in the second-quarter of 2012 have plummeted in the past few weeks, as economists adjust their models to one disappointing data release after another.
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EU To Criminalize Rate-Fixing...And About Time Too

The EU is looking into the possibility of making Libor and Euribor rate-rigging -- the deliberate manipulation of interest rates that set the benchmark for over $500 trillion in financial contracts - a criminal offense.

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