CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-Investor group calls on SEC to review change in JPMorgan voting
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Written by Reuters: Company NewsBill to End Foreclosure Mediation In Missouri Passes… Wake Up, Missouri
Written by Mandelman
Here’s what can happen when people get lulled into a false sense of security listening to the news stories about how our housing markets have rebounded and foreclosures are down… we risk losing the things that are helping homeowners.
When the foreclosure crisis began, and for the first few years as foreclosures continued unabated, foreclosure
...Barron's jubilantly joins the hoopla over Dow 15,000, having predicted it early last year. But the hoopla is haunted by one surprising fact: In inflation-adjusted terms, the blue-chip average is still well below its record high of Jan. 14, 2000.
Social Security checks are indexed to the consumer-price index, so why not the stock market, especially
One Bank Did Right by Homeowners & Shareholders – A Story You Haven’t Heard Before
Written by Mandelman
We all know what happened as a result of the mortgage market melt down[1] that began during the summer of 2007… we’re still nursing our wounds, millions have lost homes, millions are still at risk of foreclosure.
We all remember TARP and the taxpayer funded bailouts of Wall Street’s largest investment and commercial banks almost like it happened y
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International Developments
❖ “ Nigeria’s army has begun operation s against militant Islamists [Boko Haram] in the north-east.”
❖ “ More than 60 people” killed and “dozens hurt i n several bomb attacks apparently targeting Sunnis” in Iraq. This source says 40 killed, following “two days of...
From Our Archive: Wearable Computing, Long Before Google Glass
Written by MIT Technology ReviewThe following View from the Marketplace was provided by SAP, the sponsor of our Big Data Gets Personal Business Report.
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Francesca's Numbers Give Pause - Barrons.com
Written by Barron's Most Emailed TodayFrancesca's Collections stores may be small, but as a specialty-retailing success story, the chain's parent, Francesca's Holdings [1] (ticker: FRAN), is huge. Revenue at the 283-store chain, which sells jewelry, apparel, accessories, and housewares, has grown at a 57% annual clip over the past three years, to $204 million in fiscal 2012, ended in
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