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Credit crisis 'here to stay,' say top bankers: Guardian Unlimited - But the investors who bought securities backed by the shaky American mortgages did not escape blame either: the report identified 'poor investor practices, including excessive, too often mechanical, reliance on credit rating agencies'. Darling urged ...
Writers Guild Leaders Unveil Tentative Labor Contract (Update3): Bloomberg - The strike has also delayed work on films including Sony's ``Angels & Demons,'' based on the book by Dan Brown, and Warner Bros.' ``Shantaram,'' Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst William Kidd said in a Jan. 16 report. Back to Work ...
SEC eyes disclosure in subprime probes: Boston Globe - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating how banks, credit rating firms and lenders valued and disclosed complex mortgage-backed securities that ultimately led to the subprime crisis, a top agency enforcer said ...
Preserving Bethlehem Steel story: Baltimore Sun - Though Sands officials were unavailable for comment earlier this week, the company said in its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission: "The goal of Las Vegas Sands Corp. is to bring life back to this historic site, while respecting ...
Setting course for a neutral interest rate: Times Online - Darling is promising to make housing finance a central element of his March 12 budget, including a “gold standard” for covered bonds and mortgage-backed securities and a drive to get people on to long-term (25year) fixed-rate mortgages, though ...
Court reverses conviction of Enron auditor: Baltimore Sun - The Justice Department's decision to charge Arthur Andersen was based, at the time, on the determination that the substantial destruction of documents in anticipation of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission violated the law ...
Investors Urged to Look Beyond Ratings: Newsday - Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings are being criticized by government officials and some investor groups for not identifying weakness in subprime mortgage-backed securities before they went sour and contributed to massive ...
A Wave of Matchups on Deck for Airlines?: Newsday - Mergers are always a problem, and that's why Continental is not in favor of one," says Raymond Neidl, an analyst for Calyon Securities. "They have always been expensive and sloppy." Neidl said network carriers believe they need bulk to compete with ...
Calling for Yahoo to get bold: Baltimore Sun - Jackson Securities analyst Brian Bolan says even though the company's reorganization hasn't delivered anything "new or earth-shattering," he sees positive signs that the "vultures" have finished off "the carcass that was last year." By and large ...
Mega deals boost Asian stocks: International Herald Tribune - Internet market through a possible Yahoo buy shows that it's also a possible scenario it may attempt to buy Asian Internet companies as well," said Park Han-woo, an analyst at Prudential Investment & Securities. Japan's Nikkei index was up 2.5 percent ...

Investors rush for Softbank,Yahoo Japan on Microsoft: Guardian Unlimited - Internet and mobile phone service company Softbank owns 3.9 percent of Yahoo Inc in terms of voting rights. Yahoo Japan is owned 41 percent by Softbank and 33 percent by Yahoo Inc. Mizuho Securities analyst Yuichi Sato said the deal, if realised ...
Australian stock market firmer at noon, led by resources: News.com.au - Also, the stapled securities of property investment company Valad Property Group have been placed in a trading halt pending an announcement, which is expected to be about a proposed strategic alliance. Valad's shares last traded at $1.22. Argo ...
The Week Ahead: BHP to reveal earnings as bid drama mounts: The Independent - The Chinese acquired 12 per cent of London-listed Rio Tinto shares, which equates to 9 per cent of the global, dual-listed company, which is also traded on the Australian Securities Exchange. The Chinese were always considered an interested party ...
Japanese stocks up more than 2 percent: International Herald Tribune - The market is reacting positively to the Microsoft offer," said Yoku Ihara, manager of investment information department at Retela Crea Securities. But he said the overall market did not seem to have enough energy to keep rising, and Wall Street's ...
To save a forest: World eyes grand plan of payoffs to preserve trees ...: International Herald Tribune - EDITOR'S NOTE — December's Bali climate talks cleared the way for a last-ditch effort to preserve the world's rain forests, by turning trees into tradable securities. This is the last in a three-part series on the tropics' disappearing forests ...
Australia May Raise Benchmark Rate to 7% to Counter Inflation: Bloomberg - The Reserve Bank has given itself a history of going as soon as possible after an upswing in inflation,'' said Joshua Williamson, a senior strategist at TD Securities Ltd. in Sydney. ``The fact the Federal Reserve has cut by 125 basis ...
Japanese Bonds May Rise on Speculation U.S. to Enter Recession: Bloomberg - Demand for fixed-income securities may be limited before a Ministry of Finance sale tomorrow of 1.9 trillion yen ($17.8 billion) in 10-year bonds. ``Bonds will be bought to start,'' said Akihiko Inoue, an analyst at Mizuho Investors ...
Japan's Nikkei 225 Futures Jump After U.S. Manufacturing Rises: Bloomberg - The improved manufacturing index suggests the U.S. economy isn't as bad as we had thought,'' Tomochika Kitaoka, a strategist at Mizuho Securities Co., said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. The Institute for Supply Management's ...
Red Hat Deepens Commitment in Asia-Pacific Region: MSN MoneyCentral - Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations of future events ...
Robo-calls raises questions about truth telling: Detroit News - One such individual is Robert Morrow, a self-employed securities trader in Austin, Texas, who isn't fond of Hillary. I got a call from ol' Robert Thursday as I was writing this column at my home in South Carolina. He -- or rather his recorded voice ...