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Lehman Brothers Suing Citi Over Huge Account

AP | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Debt, Investment Bank, Video, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Citibank, Financial Crisis 2008, Citigroup, Financial Collapse, Business News

NEW YORK -- Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its creditors are suing several units of Citigroup Inc. to recover $2.5 billion the failed investment ba...

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Goldman Sachs Sued By Regulator Over Risky Mortgages

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Investment Bank, U.S. District Court, National Credit Union Administration, Ncua, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mortgage-Backed Securities, Financial Regulation, Credit Unions, Royal Bank of Scotland PLC, Business News

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. regulator of credit unions on Tuesday sued Goldman Sachs & Co. for more than $491 million in damages over losses incurred...

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Morgan Stanley Reports Loss In Second Quarter

AP | PALLAVI GOGOI | Posted 09.20.2011

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NEW YORK - Morgan Stanley is reporting a loss $558 million for the second quarter. The investment banks' earnings took a hit from converting an invest...

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Fund's Bet On Post-Failure Lehman Brothers Could Reap Huge Rewards

Wall Street Journal | MATT WIRZ, MIKE SPECTOR and TOM MCGINTY | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Lehman Brothers Holding, Investment Bank, Wall Street, John Paulson, Lehman Brothers, Subprime Mortgage, Bankruptcy Court, Business News

Hedge-fund manager John Paulson made $4 billion betting against subprime mortgages, the market that ultimately helped destroy Lehman Brothers Holdings...

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Morgan Stanley's Profit Get Cut In Half From One Year Ago

Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Morgan Stanley, Shareholders, Profit Decline, Investment Bank, Brokerage, Net Income, First Quarter Profit, Wall Street, Morgan Stanley Profit, Fixed Income, Business News

Morgan Stanley's first-quarter profit dropped nearly 50 percent, hurt by a decline in fixed income trading revenue. The investment bank and brokera...

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Deutsche Bank Pays Investment Bankers More Than Goldman Sachs

Bloomberg | Gavin Finch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Revenue, Economy, Investment Bankers, Investment Bank, Salary, Business News, Third-Quarter Loss, Wall Street, Business News

Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank, set aside more in compensation for employees of its corporate and investment bank in the first nine months o...

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I'll Just Stick to the Math!

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Math, Wall Street, Enron, Investment Bank, Derivatives, Quant, Financial Engineer, Harvard Management Company, Al Gore, President Bush, Phat Math Inc., Hedge Fund, Business News
Iris Mack

I decided I needed to do something instead of just sitting around complaining about how we were getting ripped off by Wall Street, so I threw my two cents into the debate about the economy by writing my first Huffington Post blog.

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Die Hard Producer, Lethal Weapon Sues Goldman For $30 Million

DailyFinance | Sarah Weinman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Die Hard, Goldman Sachs, Lawsuits, Investment Bank, Dark Castle Entertainment, Joel Silver, Lethal Weapon, Momentum Pictures, Societe Generale De Financement Du Quebec, Business News

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Joel Silver claims in a filing with the Los Angeles Superior Court that Goldman Sachs failed to pay $30 million o...

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Goldman Turns Into a Financial Frankenstein While the Fed Snoozes Away

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phibro, Citigroup, The Financial Times, Investment Bank, Bank Holding Company, Lehman Brothers, Lehman, Forbes Magazine, Federal Reserve, Oil, Bailout, Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Goldman was not assisted by the government to become a voracious and even heftier investment bank. Rather, one can presume that the government's assistance was to prevent systemic failure.

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Sorkin On What Happened After Lehman

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Enron, Geithner, Business, Wachovia, Great Panic of 2008, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Media Maneuvers, Investment Bank, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Robert Teitelman, Ben Bernanke, Tarp, Timothy, Business News
Robert Teitelman

New York Times' reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin's excerpt microscopically examines the actions of some key regulatory and Wall Street players, in this case during the period immediately after Lehman failed.

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JPMorgan Chase In Slump, Profit Drops 50 Percents

AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s profit fell 50 percent in the first quarter after the bank took a provision of $5.1 billion to strengthen its ...

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Does Goldman Deserve Its Golden Status?

Seeking Alpha | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investment Banks, Glenn Schorr, Goldman Sachs, Quarterly Earnings, Investment Bank, Business News

Goldman Sachs (GS) continues to be the favorite investment bank for many, but market instability and its premium valuation has analysts debating its p...

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