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By Karen Freifeld

NEW YORK (Reuters) -&amp;nbsp;Bank of America&amp;nbsp;Corp (BAC.N) could put its Countrywide Financial unit into bankruptcy if it fails to win court approval for an $8.5 billion&amp;nbsp;settlement&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;mortgage investors, a&amp;nbsp;bank executive&amp;nbsp;said on Monday.


Chief Risk Officer Terrence Laughlin&amp;nbsp;was testifying at a hearing in New York state court on whether to </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total></item><item><title>S&amp;P revises U.S. credit outlook to 'stable' from negative</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/s-revises-us-credit-outlook-to-stable.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:24:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-3798568153471442031</guid><description>

By David Gaffen and Daniel Bases

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard &amp;amp; Poor's on Monday removed the near-term threat of another credit rating downgrade for the United States by revising its outlook to stable from negative, citing an improved economic and fiscal outlook.


The change effectively means there is less than a one-third chance of a downgrade in the next two years.

S&amp;amp;P said a key </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>U.S. hiring outlook positive; global employers uncertain: report</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/us-hiring-outlook-positive-global.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:21:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-8223296437768101120</guid><description>

By Madeline Will

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More employers in&amp;nbsp;the United States&amp;nbsp;plan to hire workers next quarter than in any period since the fourth quarter of 2008, according to a survey by&amp;nbsp;Manpower&amp;nbsp;Group (MAN.N), the global employment services giant.


Manpower's quarterly survey released Tuesday found most employers around the globe were uncertain about hiring more workers in</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Asian shares hit 2013 lows; Nikkei slides as BoJ disappoints</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/asian-shares-hit-2013-lows-nikkei.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:18:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-3864112753622243764</guid><description>

By Chikako Mogi

TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar slipped against the yen after the Bank of Japan held off from taking fresh steps to curb bond market volatility, while Asian shares sagged to a fresh 2013 low as China growth worries and continued uncertainty over the U.S. bond-buying program depressed sentiment.


The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady and held off on taking further </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Gold Falls Most in Two Weeks on Fed Stimulus Speculation</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/gold-falls-most-in-two-weeks-on-fed.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 21:46:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-1907530470713681589</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Debarati Roy&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;Joe Richter

Gold futures slumped the most in two weeks as U.S.&amp;nbsp;consumer confidence&amp;nbsp;climbed in May to the highest in almost six years, stoking concern that the Federal Reserve may scale back monetary stimulus.



The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of sentiment rose to 84.5, the highest since July 2007, from 76.4 a month earlier. </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Junk Bonds Get Destroyed at the Close</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/junk-bonds-get-destroyed-at-close.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 21:43:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-5869465603313262772</guid><description>

Stocks finished lower on Friday following the release of a mixed batch of economic data.
US stock futures started the day on a negative note following weakness out of Europe, namely, a drop in German retail sales and an increase in EU unemployment.

[More from Minyanville.com:&amp;nbsp;X Factor: 5 Stocks Reaching Their Ex-Dividend Date on June 6&amp;nbsp;]

We also saw some bad numbers stateside as the</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Morgan Stanley’s Hadden Barred From CME Trading for 10 Days</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/morgan-stanleys-hadden-barred-from-cme.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 21:37:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-8885551035228984871</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Michael J. Moore

Morgan Stanley (MS)’s head of interest-rates trading, Glenn Hadden, was suspended from accessing all CME Group Inc. trading floors for 10 days to resolve claims tied to his 2008 transactions in Treasury futures.


The sanctions, including an $80,000 fine, stem from Hadden’s handling of trades while atGoldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), according to a statement today from the</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Asian Stocks Decline as Japan Enters Correction on Fed</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/asian-stocks-decline-as-japan-enters.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 21:33:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-1498161094856485934</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Yoshiaki Nohara

Asian stocks fell for a second week, with the&amp;nbsp;regional benchmark index&amp;nbsp;capping the first monthly loss in seven months, amid concern the&amp;nbsp;Federal Reserve&amp;nbsp;will scale back its stimulus, causing interest rates to rise. Shares in Japan, the world’s best performing major market, entered a correction as the yen rose.


Sony Corp. (6758), a Japanese TV maker </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>The 100% Stock Solution</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-100-stock-solution.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 21:30:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-5634470153855999047</guid><description>

BY LIAM PLEVEN

Most investors hold a mix of stocks and bonds, hoping for both growth and safety. Then there are people like Daniel White.


The 36-year-old Chicago lawyer keeps all his investments in the stock market. His 401(k) plan is invested in equities, and so is his wife's. The college-savings accounts for their four young children also are in stocks. His separate brokerage accounts are,</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Goldman unveils checks on conflicts in bid to fix image</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/goldman-unveils-checks-on-conflicts-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 23:18:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-7474508002657583534</guid><description>


By Lauren Tara LaCapra

SALT LAKE City (Reuters) - After dozens of meetings with executives and regulators, 100,000 hours of employee training and an immeasurable amount of public grief, Goldman Sachs Group Inc's (GS.N) Lloyd Blankfein claimed success in putting the bank and his legacy as CEO back on track.


At Goldman's annual meeting on Thursday, Blankfein unveiled details of a three-year </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>WTI Crude Falls a Fourth Day for Biggest Weekly Drop in a Month</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/wti-crude-falls-fourth-day-for-biggest.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 23:13:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-8040155097349653886</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Ben Sharples


West Texas Intermediate crude fell for a fourth day, extending the biggest weekly drop in more than a month, amid signs of rising U.S. fuel supplies and a global economic slowdown.


WTI futures slid as much as 0.5 percent in&amp;nbsp;New York. Manufacturing in&amp;nbsp;China&amp;nbsp;unexpectedly shrank in May, an index showed yesterday. U.S. gasoline stockpiles rose by&amp;nbsp;3 </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Bass Sees BOJ Bond Purchases Overwhelmed as Investors Dump Debt</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/bass-sees-boj-bond-purchases.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 22:59:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-8163680454933550612</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Rocky Swift


J. Kyle Bass, whose Hayman Advisors LP made $500 million amid the U.S. subprime crisis, said the&amp;nbsp;Bank of Japan&amp;nbsp;will have to “dramatically” increase bond-buying efforts that have been “overwhelmed” by investors selling.


Benchmark 10-year Japanese government&amp;nbsp;bond&amp;nbsp;yields rose to 1 percent yesterday for the first time since April 2012, more than triple the</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Icahn seeks up to $7 billion for Dell bid</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/icahn-seeks-up-to-7-billion-for-dell-bid.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 22:55:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-5893499696163216314</guid><description>


By Michelle Sierra

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc have initiated talks with banks and asset managers to line up commitments for as much as $7 billion in bridge loans to back their leveraged recapitalization proposal for Dell Inc, banking sources told Thomson Reuters LPC on Thursday.


Jefferies &amp;amp; Co is leading the deal.

Icahn and </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Gold Heads for Best Week in a Month as Investors Weigh Stimulus</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/gold-heads-for-best-week-in-month-as.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 22:53:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-8717240017805475914</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Phoebe Sedgman


Gold swung between gains and losses as investors weighed speculation the&amp;nbsp;Federal Reservewill maintain its record stimulus against a continuing decline in investor assets. Prices headed for the best week in a month.


Bullion for immediate delivery rose 0.3 percent to $1,394.80 an ounce at 11:15 a.m. inSingapore&amp;nbsp;after losing as much as 0.3 percent. Prices </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Wall Street sags, but ends off session lows; HP hits 52-week high</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/wall-street-sags-but-ends-off-session.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 22:50:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-1443481009607541674</guid><description>


By Angela Moon

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slipped on Thursday but finished sharply off their session lows as a rally in Hewlett-Packard's shares offset worries about weak Chinese manufacturing data and the prospects of the Federal Reserve reducing its monetary stimulus.


Trading was choppy as many traders were adjusting their positions ahead of the long holiday weekend. Markets will be </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Asian Stocks Drop as Yen Gains After Kuroda Comments</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/asian-stocks-drop-as-yen-gains-after.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 22:48:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-6586840307245934303</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Adam Haigh


Asian&amp;nbsp;stocks&amp;nbsp;fell, with the region’s benchmark index set for its biggest weekly loss in a year, as the yen strengthened after&amp;nbsp;Bank of Japan&amp;nbsp;Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the central bank had announced sufficient stimulus.


The MSCI Asia Pacific Index slid 1.7 percent to 136.29 as of 1:46 p.m. in Tokyo as Australian banks also headed for the largest </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Asia Pacific IPOs in busiest deal week since 2011</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/asia-pacific-ipos-in-busiest-deal-week.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:34:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-6049617106836415163</guid><description>


* Sinopec Engineering raises $1.8 bln

* APPT raises $1.14 bln

* All three large IPOs this week priced near the bottom

By Elzio Barreto and Yantoultra Ngui

HONG KONG/KUALA LUMPUR, May 16 (Reuters) - IPO markets in Asia Pacific had their best week in two years after Chinese refiner Sinopec Group's engineering unit and a Macquarie Group Ltd-linked trust raised a combined $2.9 billion on </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Lacker says Fed should get out of mortgage market</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/lacker-says-fed-should-get-out-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:32:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-4931310830639169806</guid><description>


By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa

BALTIMORE (Reuters) - An improving U.S. housing market suggests it is time for the Federal Reserve to stop aiming its stimulus at the real estate sector, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said on Wednesday.


"When you look at housing market conditions, I think you could make the case that we should be getting out of mortgage-backed securities," Lacker told </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>apan GDP Jumps Most in Year as Consumers Open Wallets: Economy</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/apan-gdp-jumps-most-in-year-as.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:31:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-2799520981255190375</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Toru Fujioka&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;James Mayger&amp;nbsp;


Japan’s economy expanded the most in a year last quarter as&amp;nbsp;consumer spending&amp;nbsp;and export gains outweighed the weakest business investment since the wake of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.


Gross domestic product&amp;nbsp;rose an annualized 3.5 percent, a Cabinet Office release showed in Tokyo. Private consumption, making up </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>How the Obama Scandals Could Hurt Financial Markets</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-obama-scandals-could-hurt-financial.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:05:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-388892833801913067</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Rick Newman&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;The Exchange




It’s not exactly a Watergate moment (not yet, anyway), but the mounting controversies engulfing President Obama may mark the most difficult patch of his presidency to date. And they could eventually undermine the economy while rattling financial markets as well.


Obama faces a trio of political problems that seem to be cresting at roughly the </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Bond 'Death' Cross? Why Yields May Fall Below 1 Percent</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/bond-death-cross-why-yields-may-fall.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:02:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-7374410056518816787</guid><description>
By:&amp;nbsp;Jeff Cox

CNBC.com Senior Writer



The 10-year Treasury is on the cusp of making an important technical formation that could lead to a huge drop in yield and a flight from risk, according to an analysis.


A looming "death cross," in which the 50-day moving average of the benchmark government debt note's yield is about to cross below the 200-day moving average, would have ominous </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Sinopec Engineering Said to Raise $1.8 Billion in Hong Kong IPO</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/sinopec-engineering-said-to-raise-18.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:57:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-7045780827019019840</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Fox Hu


Sinopec Engineering Group Co., a unit of&amp;nbsp;China’s biggest refiner, raised $1.8 billion in an initial public offering in&amp;nbsp;Hong Kong, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.


The Beijing-based unit of China Petrochemical Corp. sold 1.33 billion shares at HK$10.50 each, said the people, asking not to be identified because the information is private.

The sale</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Tata Power May Sell Shares in Clean-Energy Unit Next Year</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/tata-power-may-sell-shares-in-clean.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:55:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-844669219195535862</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Natalie Obiko Pearson


Tata Power Co. (TPWR), the utility business of India’s largest business group, is considering an initial public offering of its clean-energy unit next financial year.


The utility plans to increase wind and solar power capacity at Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd. almost fivefold in the year to March 31 as the cost of renewable energy converges with fossil </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Insight: Dimon has big say over who serves on JPMorgan board</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/insight-dimon-has-big-say-over-who.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:52:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-1097300329225988570</guid><description>


By Nadia Damouni, David Henry and Ross Kerber

(Reuters) - For years, JPMorgan Chase &amp;amp; Co (JPM.N) Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon and other executives have hand-picked new directors, in a practice that is now unusual for a major U.S. bank.


The JPMorgan board's governance committee, responsible for hiring new members, relies almost entirely on referrals from management to find director </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Soros Leads Gold-Stake Cuts Before Bear Market Drop</title><link>http://admin-moneyblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/soros-leads-gold-stake-cuts-before-bear.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:51:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1743565834218188282.post-7337322586065483522</guid><description>
By&amp;nbsp;Debarati Roy


Billionaire investor&amp;nbsp;George Soros&amp;nbsp;joined Northern Trust Corp. and BlackRock Inc. in cutting holdings of exchange-traded products backed by gold before a bear market in prices last month, while&amp;nbsp;John Paulson&amp;nbsp;maintained a stake that lost about $165 million in the first quarter.


Soros Fund Management&amp;nbsp;LLC lowered its investment in the SPDR Gold Trust,</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>