Barack Obama chooses Mary Shapiro to Chair the SEC

In one of President-elect Barack Obama's first moves into sorting out the mess of the financial industry in America, ... Futures Trading Commission in 1994.  Her private interests include directorships at Duke Energy ... Investor Education Foundation, the largest foundation in the U.S. dedicated to investor education [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 06:46:50

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Will the global financial crisis halt the rise of emerging economies?

NOBODY talks about "decoupling" any more. Instead, emerging economies are sinking alongside developed ones ... commodity prices. All three props have now collapsed. In particular, as America's housing bust ... economies' future growth rates.Yet emerging economies' reliance on America is often exaggerated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 18:39:00

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and the Future of Citigroup

The short story is that Citigroup (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS) are allegedly combining the retail brokerage operations into a standalone entity with enough financial advisors to top the merged Bank of America (BAC) Merrill Lynch herd. Morgan Stanley is reported [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:16:00

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