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Biz Reporting: May 2010
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Friday, May 21, 2010. SEC investigating brokerage firms role in market selloff. The New York Times - WASHINGTON — The enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Is investigating whether market makers and brokerage firms fulfilled their legal obligations to provide liquidity in the markets by buying and selling stock during the sharp market drop of May 6, the chairwoman of the agency said Thursday. Mary L. Schapiro. Ms Schapiro said the commission would also re-examine its rules conce...
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Biz Reporting
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Monday, April 19, 2010. ST LOUIS — After a career as a corporate executive with her name in brass on the office door, Amparo Kollman-Moore, an immigrant from Colombia, likes to drive a Jaguar and shop at Saks. “It was a good life,” she said, “a really good ride.”. As a member of this city’s economic elite, Ms. Kollman-Moore is not unusual among immigrants who live in St. Louis. According to a new analysis of census data. Over all, the analysis showed, the 25 million immigrants who live in the countryR...
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Biz Reporting: More Corruption: Bear Stearns Falsified Information as Raters Shrugged
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Friday, May 14, 2010. More Corruption: Bear Stearns Falsified Information as Raters Shrugged. The Atlantic - Made up FICO scores? Twenty-minute speed ratings to AAA? If government prosecutors like New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo want answers to why the mortgage-backed securities market was so screwed up, they should talk to Matt Van Leeuwen from Bear Stearn's servicing arm EMC. False Information and the Grey Area. Mark W. Tatge. Redo Tech Pvt Ltd is a Best service professional Custom India based M...
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Biz Reporting: Regulators Warnings Weren't Act On
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Saturday, May 8, 2010. Regulators Warnings Weren't Act On. WASHINGTON — Federal regulators warned offshore rig operators more than a decade ago that they needed to install backup systems to control the giant undersea valves known as blowout preventers, used to cut off the flow of oil. From a well in an emergency. The warnings were repeated in 2004 and 2009. Yet the Minerals Management Service. Leaving tens of thousands of gallons of oil a day spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. 8220;Everything that’s ...
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Biz Reporting: April 2010
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Saturday, April 24, 2010. The Wall Street Journal - WASHINGTON—Ahead of a pivotal vote Monday on financial regulation, divisions are emerging among Senate Democrats over how best to strengthen oversight of the market for the exotic financial instruments known as derivatives. I want to make sure that without a doubt.I have a privileged ability to be able to be a part of this bill," Sen. Lincoln said in a statement forwarded Friday by her office. Sen Chris Dodd (D., Conn.), who is leading the broad...The m...
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Biz Reporting: March 2010
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Monday, March 15, 2010. No Jobs And When You Do Find One It is For Less Pay. I wanted to know how they’re doing a year later. The short answer is, of the 16 I interviewed again, 9 describe themselves as still struggling. Eight continue to be unemployed or are working part-time jobs that pay near minimum wage. Several were so concerned about bias, they did not want to give their ages. Mark W. Tatge. Friday, March 12, 2010. Report Shows Lehman hide Its Financial Problems. The Wall Street Journal - A scathi...
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Biz Reporting: Work Force Fueled By High Skilled Immigrants
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Monday, April 19, 2010. Work Force Fueled By High Skilled Immigrants. ST LOUIS — After a career as a corporate executive with her name in brass on the office door, Amparo Kollman-Moore, an immigrant from Colombia, likes to drive a Jaguar and shop at Saks. “It was a good life,” she said, “a really good ride.”. As a member of this city’s economic elite, Ms. Kollman-Moore is not unusual among immigrants who live in St. Louis. According to a new analysis of census data. Over all, the analysis showed, the 25 ...
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Biz Reporting: Computer meltdown on Wall Street still baffles officials
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Saturday, May 8, 2010. Computer meltdown on Wall Street still baffles officials. Traders applauding Duncan L. Niederauer, chief of NYSE Euronext, on Friday. He had defended his exchange in an interview. The New York Times - A day after a harrowing plunge in the stock market, federal regulators were still unable on Friday to answer the one question on every investor’s mind: What caused that near panic on Wall Street? The silence from Washington cast a pall over Wall Street, where shaken traders returned t...
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Chris Roush
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Chris Roush is the founding director of the Carolina Business News Initiative, which provides training for professional journalists and students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches classes on business and economics reporting. Of Progress: Celebrating Progress Energy’s History of Service. Profits and Losses: Business Journalism and its Role in Society (2006). A Good Night’s Sleep: The Pacific Coast Feather Story.
