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Despite Market Risks, Foreign Buyers Find Bargains In New York City Real Estate

Crain's New York Business | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Real Estate, US Recession, Global Economic Crisis, New York Real Estate, Economy, Economic Crisis, Commercial Real Estate, Hsbc, New York Recession, New York, New York City, Great Depression, New York News

An Israeli firm's deal to buy HSBC Bank USA's headquarters at 452 Fifth Ave. for $330 million signals that foreign investors see Manhattan real estate...

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New Yorker Partners With HSBC For Money Issue

Forbes.com | Steve Forbes | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: New Yorker HSBC, New Yorker Money Issue, New Yorker, Hsbc, Magazines, Media News

Readers of The New Yorker will open the magazine's Oct. 12 money-themed issue and find that the Conde Nast publication has a bit more of the stuff it ...

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Bankers Arming Themselves Against Angry Customers With Panic Buttons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Crisis, Banks, Financial Crisis, Hsbc, Recession, Business News

The recession: is it over? Maybe! But probably not. So, for the time being, bankers are going to continue to operate under the premise that their a...

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The Stages of Moral Development

Alan Lurie | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Universal, Hsbc, HSBC Bank, Misfortune, Lawrence Kohlberg, Values, Ethnocentricity, Worldcentric, Morality, Mystical, Conventional, Egocentricism, Living News

Just as life grew evolutionarily, and human beings grow physically, socially, and mentally, we also grow in how we interpret what occurs in our lives -- in our morality.

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CEO on Doing Business With India, Ahead of Presidential Visit

Rani Singh | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

The CEO of the UK-India Business Council discusses her thoughts on the way the British do business in India, compared with their American counterparts.

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Judge Arthur Schack Fights The Foreclosure Crisis, One Case At A Time

New York Times | MICHAEL POWELL | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Hsbc, Deutsche Bank, Mortgages, New York, Bank Foreclosures, Economy, Brooklyn, Arthur M. Schack, Judge Arthur Schack, Housing Crisis, Foreclosure Judge, New York News

The judge waves you into his chambers in the State Supreme Court building in Brooklyn, past the caveat taped to his wall -- "Be sure brain in gear bef...

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Have ATM Card That Will Travel? Not So Fast

Stacie Nevadomski Berdan | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Exchange Fees, International Bank, Global Credit Card, Travel Finances, Travel Tips, Hong Kong, Hsbc, Stacie Berdan, Global Travel, Travel Nightmares, Living News

Getting cash while traveling internationally is not as easy as you may think.

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Bankruptcy Judges & DOJ Rip Mortgage Companies

ProPublica | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, JP Morgan, Loan Modifications, Bankruptcy, Countrywide, Wells Fargo, Ocwen, Hsbc, Justice Department, Financial Services Roundtable, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Business News

Judges have found that major mortgages servicers regularly mess up basic accounting, improperly credit payments and charge unwarranted fees.

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A Tennis Court Grows In Midtown Manhattan

nytimes.com | JAMES BARRON | Posted 07.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Hsbc, Midtown Tennis Court New York, Wimbledon, Hsbc Wimbledon, Midtown Tennis Court, Hsbc Midtown Tennis Court Wimbledon, New York, New York News

Rick Capecelatro, who installs and maintains athletic fields, built a tennis court over the weekend on a closed-off street between 45 and 50 Rockefell...

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Credit Card Companies Settle For Lower Balances

nytimes.com | DAVID STREITFELD | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business

Read More: American Express, Bank of America, Citibank, Credit-Card-Delinquency-Rates, Credit Cards, Credit Card Debt, Hsbc, Business News

The banks were bailed out last fall, the automobile companies last winter. For Edward McClelland, a writer in Chicago, deliverance finally arrived a f...

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HSBC Said To Seek $17 Billion In New Capital

New York Times | JULIA WERDIGIER | Posted 04.01.2009 | Business

Read More: HSBC New Capital, Hsbc, HSBC $17 Billion, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business News

LONDON -- Unlike most of its global rivals, the British bank HSBC Holdings has been healthy enough to avoid raising capital to cope with the credit cr...

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Human Rights in China: What Consumer Behavior Reveals

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: China Brands, Human Rights, Nokia, Nike, Scale, Luxury Brands in China, China, Business, Hsbc, Incrementalism in China, Consumer Behavior in China, Haeir, World News

During Hillary Clinton's recent visit to the PRC, she unsettled human rights advocates, with a rather blunt assessment of the current state of China and the United States' human rights dialog.

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Steve Howard, Climate Crusader

Marc Gunther | Posted 03.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Hsbc, Together Campaign, The Climate Group, Steve Howard, Environment, Green Living, Green News

Next month, The Climate Group hopes to make a big splash in Washington. But what exactly does the group do?

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The Problem With Palm Oil

Michael Brune | Posted 01.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Human Rights, Rain Forests, Orangutans, Environment, Climate Change, Rainforests, Palm Oil, Deforestation, Hsbc, Matt Mckinney, Indonesia, Palm Oil Production, Malaysia, Agribusiness, HSBC Rainforests, Green News

The ubiquity of palm oil in the United States and Europe is driving out the subsistence agriculture that people in Indonesia and Malaysia depend on for food.

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The Real Information is Behind the Headlines

Jim Randel | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Personal Finance, Bank of America, Hsbc, Banks, Subprime Mortgages, Wall Street Journal, Business News

Lots of lenders all over the world are debating whether the commercial real estate market is going to plunge like the residential market did.

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Magic Takes on the Economy

Paige Donner | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

"Minorities have to get out of dominating sports and entertainment and get into dominating money," said Johnson who is part-owner of the Los Angeles Lakers.

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HSBC Sees Dive In Profits, Jump In Negative-Equity Loans

Daily Mail | Becky Barrow | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Negative-Equity, Domino Effect, Lending Crisis, Hsbc, Recession, Mortgage Crisis, Negative-Equity Loans, Business News

More than one in 10 mortgages are in negative equity or close to being plunged into it, one of the world's biggest banks admitted today. HSBC said it...

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Green Banking, Good Banking

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Carter Glass, Gramm, Carbon Bank, Cdo, Vanguard, Clean Energy, Hsbc, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Jack Brennan, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Energy Efficiency Index, Morgan Stanley, Lehman, Phil Gramm, ABN Amro, Bear Stearns, Glass-Steagall, Brennan, Ceres, Green News

If Ceres Climate Change ratings had been used as a proxy for long-term thinking, they would have been helpful. They would, in the context of the illiquidity of the credit markets, have been a good predictor of the Bankers Panic of 2008.

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DiCaprio Promotes Green HSBC Credit Cards

Ecorazzi | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Green Cards, Green Credit Cards, Hsbc, Leonardo Dicaprio, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, The 11th Hour, HSBC Credit Cards, Business News

In a rare display of corporate promotion, Leonardo DiCaprio paid his first visit to Hong Kong to help launch HSBC's new line of "green" credit cards. ...

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How The Press Failed Readers On The Changing Credit Card Industry

Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Credit Card, Credit Card War, Credit Card Companies, Chase, Dean Starkman, Dean Starkman Credit Cards, Changing Credit, CJR Credit Cards, Changing Credit Card Industry, Hsbc, The Wall Street Journal, Discover, The Financial Times, American Express, Visa, Press Ignores Changing Credit Card Industry, Dean Starkman CJR, Dean Starkman Credit, CJR Credit, Business Week, Credit Card Company, Deam Starkman Columbia Journalism Review, Bank of America, Credit Cards, Fortune, Columbia Journalism Review, Citi, Mastercard, Credit War, Press Ignores Economy, Wachovia, Forbes, Credit, Cjr, Media News

One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in the economy, not everyone does. In fact, most p...

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HSBC's American Subprime Loan Write-Offs Hit $51 Million A Day

Times Online | Patrick Hosking | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Hsbc, Subprime Loans, Subprime Mortgages, Subprime, Business News

HSBC has stepped up the rate at which it writes off loans to poor Americans to an unprecedented $51 million (£25.7 million) a day as the British bank...

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HSBC Expected To Sell 400 Banks

New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Subprime Loans, HSBC Banks, Hsbc, Business News

HSBC Holdings, the biggest bank in Europe, plans to put about half of its 800 French consumer branches up for sale as it focuses on expanding in Asia ...

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Vivendi Secures $5 Billion Loan

Variety | David Hayhurst | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Vivendi Loan, Neuf Cegetel, Fortis Bank, Vivendi, Hsbc, Societe Generale, Royal Bank of Scotland, Business News

Vivendi has secured a Euros 3.5 billion ($5.08 billion) loan to back its acquisition of controlling stakes in U.S.-based vidgame maker Activision and ...

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Is Your Cash Safe At The Banks?

Smart Money | Aleksandra Todorova | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Bancorp, Sivs, Citigroup, Bank of America, Hsbc, Countrywide Financial, Columbia Strategic Cash Portfolio, Business News

You don't have to be an information addict these days to get a sense of the grim realities that the subprime-mortgage crisis and resulting credit crun...

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Wall Street Explained: How Citi, Merrill, And HSBC Vaporized Billions

Silicon Valley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Hsbc, John Bird, John Fortune, Citigroup, Business News

Mystified about how Wall Street's best and brightest could suddenly up and lose tens of billions of dollars on insanely risky mortgage bets? Eager to ...

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