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CEO Pay Rising Less Quickly Due To Shareholder Discontent: Study

Reuters | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Dodd-Frank Act, Vikram Pandit, Goldman Sachs, Video, Mutual Funds, Fortune 1000, Reuters, Shareholder, Afl-Cio, Ceo, Standard & Poor's 500, Blackrock, CEO Compensation, Securities and Exchange Commission, Meridian Compensation Partners, Citigroup, Business News

* CEO pay rose 14 pct in 2011 vs 23 pct in 2010 * AFL-CIO presidents says Citigroup pay vote "a bell-ringer" * Mutual fu...

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Wall Street Cries: Shut Up, Bulls, You're Jinxing The Market

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Video, Wall Street, Stocks, Wall Street Bulls, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Stock Market, Business News, Markets-News, Equity Markets, Blackrock, Business News

You can't swing a dead cat these days without hitting somebody or something touting how the stock market is going to the moon. That makes Wall Street ...

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BofA May Get To Move Its $8.5 Billion Settlement Back To State Court

Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Bofa Settlement, Bank of New York Mellon, Countrywide Financial, Mortgage Crisis, Bank of America, Toxic Assets, Walnut Place, Metlife, Blackrock, Bofa, Bank of America Settlement, Home Loans, Bank of America Jurisdiction, Video, Business News

(JONATHAN STEMPEL, Reuters) - An appeals court on Tuesday granted an appeal of a controversial ruling that moved consideration of Bank of America ...

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Bank Of America Hit With New Countrywide Lawsuit

AP | Posted 09.29.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Tiaa-Cref, Bank of America Lawsuit, Countrywide, Bank Lawsuit, Countrywide Lawsuit, Countrywide Financial, T. Rowe Price, Bank of America, Mortgage Crisis, Bofa Lawsuit, Blackrock, Bofa, Business News

NEW YORK -- Bank of America Corp. is facing a new lawsuit filed by a group of shareholders of mortgage giant Countrywide Financial Corp., which the ba...

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BofA's Huge Mortgage Settlement Challenged By Bondholders

Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Metlife, Bondholders Bank of America, Blackrock, Bondholders, Bofa Bondholders, Pacific Investment, New York State Supreme Court, Allianz, Business News

NEW YORK (Jonathan Stempel) - A group of bondholders plans to challenge Bank of America Corp's $8.5 billion settlement with holders in soured mort...

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Too Big To Fail, Or Too Trifling For Oversight?

New York Times | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Fidelity Investments, Fed, Pacific Investment Management Company, Systemically Important, Paulson & Company, Tbtf, Blackrock, Too Big to Fail, Federal Reserve, Hedge Funds, Citadel, Treasury, Zurich Financial Services, Mass Mutual Financial Group, Financial Regulation, Financial Crisis, Business News

It is not very often that business people head to Washington to explain how unimportant they are. But over the last several months, executives from...

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Treasury's Toxic Asset Funds Show Big Gain

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marathon Asset Management, Mortgage Loans, Toxic Assets, Treasury Department, Treasury Toxic Asset Fund, Blackrock, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Business News

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Treasury's toxic asset funds have gained 27 percent since they were created to help revive the mortgage-backed securities mark...

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The 10 Biggest Hedge Funds In The U.S.

businessinsider.com | Courtney Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: DE Shaw, Biggest Hedge Funds US, Blackrock, Biggest Hedge Funds 2010, Hedge Funds, AR Magazine, Paulson, Bridgewater Associates, Business News

The quant hedge fund D.E. Shaw is the most glaring absence from AR Magazine's latest list (subscription required) of the biggest hedge funds in the US...

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Investors Want Bank Of America To Buy Back Bad Mortgages

bloomberg.com | Jody Shenn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BofA Mortgage Repurchases, Foreclosure Crisis, Pimco, Mortgage Putbacks, Loan Repurchases, Bank of America, Blackrock, Bank Putbacks, Business News

Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Pacific Investment Management Co., BlackRock Inc. and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are seeking to force Bank of America...

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Bank Of America CEO: Our Growth Will Come From Abroad

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investment Banks, Barclays Capital 2010 Global Financial Services Conference, Merrill Lynch, Brian Moynihan, Barclays Capital, Countrywide Financial, Bank of America, Globalization, Kenneth Lewis, Blackrock, Bofa, Investment Banking, Business News

Speaking at at an industry conference today, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said his bank, the country's largest by assets, will continue selling ...

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Manufacturing a Phony Job Crisis

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

After the narrow loss on health care, corporate America and the GOP are setting the stage for a November showdown with President Obama and Democrats by manufacturing a crisis they can "solve."

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Obama's Public-Private Investment Program Earns HUGE Profits

nytimes.com | Eric Dash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public-Private Investment Program, Federal Bailouts, Treasury Department, Mortgages, Subprime Mortgages, Alliancebernstein, Troubled-Mortgages, Aig, Henry Paulson, Bear Stearns, Timothy Geithner, Blackrock, Barclays, Business News

American taxpayers are already poised to make unexpected billions from rescuing the nation's banks. Now, they could reap another sizable profit from a...

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Yielding To Wall Street, Credit Raters 'Drink The Kool-Aid'

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raymond McDaniel, Standard, Credit Rating Agencies, Blackrock, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

In the lead up to the financial meltdown, Wall Street firms routinely exerted influence on the nation’s largest credit rating companies— which jud...

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Dimon Said His Bear Stearns Sticky Bombs Are Worse Than Geithner's

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blackrock, Term Securities Lending Facility, Jamie Dimon, Sempra, Volcker Rule, Paul Volcker, JPMorgan Chase, Dear Mr. Buffett, Rbs, Maiden Lane I, Extended Stay, Timothy Geithner, Bear Stearns, Hilton Hotels, Peleton, Tslf, Business News

Taxpayer subsidized cheap funding and looser accounting standards have allowed our largest banks to keep their Dorian Gray financial pictures behind a curtain and out of public sight.

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Biggest Paychecks In Finance 2009: SEE Who Was Paid The Most (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, CEO Pay, Gregory Curl, Capital One, Joseph Saunders, Slidepoll, Bank of America, Jamie Dimon, Blackrock, John Stumpf, Laurence Fink, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Visa, Jpmorgan, James Gorman, Ajay Banga, Biggest Paychecks in Finance, Royal Bank of Canada, Lloyd Blankfein, Brian Moynihan, Richard Fairbank, Wells Fargo, Ina Drew, Mastercard, Gordon Nixon, Jefferies, Richard Handler, Wall Street Pay, Executive Compensation, Business News

Who got the biggest pay package in finance this year? Chances are you've never heard of many of the top earners. In a year marked by high unemplo...

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Wall Street Bonuses: This Year, The Biggest Bonuses Go to Not-So-Big Names

nytimes.com | ERIC DASH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, American Express, Mastercard, Capital One, Visa, Bank of America, Jamie Dimon, John Stumpf, Blackrock, Executive Compensation, Bank Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuses, Citigroup, Business News

It turns out that some of the highest-paid financial executives in America work far from the canyons of Lower Manhattan, at companies that have largel...

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Shadow Elite: Why Sarah Palin's Really Selling Big Government

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Regnery Publishing, Contractors, Wall Street Bailout, Blackrock, Aig, Shadow Elite Janine Wedel, Wall Street Crisis, Freddie Mac, Morgan Stanley, Chris Wallace, Sarah Palin, Shadow Elite, Bear Stearns, Small Government, Tea Party, Politics News

If Sarah Palin were truly to "go rogue," to defy establishment "wisdom" of both parties, she'd take on big bad (shadow) government and stop parroting the mantra of "small government."

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Revolving Door Spins Faster: Ex-Treasury, Goldman Official Takes Job At BlackRock

bloomberg.com | Sree Vidya Bhaktavatsalam and James Sterngold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Goldman Sachs, Neel Kashkari, Kendrick Wilson, Henry Paulson, Blackrock, Robert Kapito, Laurence Fink, Business News

Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc., the world's biggest money manager, hired former Treasury official and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Kendrick ...

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Goldman Sachs Approached AIG To Scrap Contracts Months Before Being Paid In Full By NY Fed

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

This post has been updated with a quote from a senior Obama administration official. Goldman Sachs approached AIG and expressed its willingness to ca...

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Treasury Cover-Up of Goldman's Role in AIG Crisis?

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011

Goldman paid mega bonuses in past years subsidized by selling hot air. Now it proposes to again pay billions in bonuses based on earnings made possible by taxpayer dollars.

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Most Expensive Real Estate Deal In US History Poised To Flop

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tishman Speyer, Tenants Rights, Tishman Speyer Stuyvesant Town, Blackrock Realty, Stuyvesant Town, Rent Control, Real Estate, Blackrock, Peter Cooper Village, New York City, New York News

NEW YORK — It was the most expensive real estate deal in U.S. history. Now it's poised to become one of the biggest flops. At the height of the...

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Timothy Geithner, I Call Your Bluff

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Aig, Goldman Sachs, Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, Fraud Audits, Darrell Issa, Blackrock, AIG Bailout, Timothy Geithner, Frbny, Business News

The general public has been kept unaware of several politically explosive facts. Given the extraordinary circumstances surrounding AIGs trades, the financial crisis, and bailouts, it's time to reopen this issue.

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Warning to the Boss: Think of Having Sex with Your Employee as the Same as Incest!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blackrock, Bill Clinton, MacKenzie Phillips, Sex Scandal, Incest, Career Advice, Jobs, The Ed Sullivan Theatre, Cbs, Bulletproof-Your-Resume, Tiffany Network, Bulletproof Your Job, High on Arrival, Walter Cronkite, Katie Couric, Office Romance, Bill O'Reilly, David Letterman, Business News

Bosses..does that make the point any easier to remember? At least once a month, I get a call from a TV producer or reporter, who is covering a stor...

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Fund Will Let Public Buy Troubled Assets

nytimes.com | MICHAEL J. De La MERCED | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ppip, Treasury Department, Toxic Assets, Blackrock, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Black Rock Legacy Securities Public-Private Trust, Troubled Assets, Business News

Here is the latest pitch from Wall Street: those troubled assets at the banks could turn out to be gold for you. That is the line from BlackRock, t...

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Our Loss is BlackRock's Gain

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Scheer, Freddie Mac, Morgan Stanley, Bailout, Bank of America, Countrywide, Aig, Toxic Assets, Blackrock, Business News

How much do you know about the BlackRock hedge fund? Better bone up fast, now that the folks at BlackRock are calling the shots in the government's trillion-dollar bailout program.

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