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Obama details plans to boost exports, create jobs - Associated Press
In a speech to the Export-Import Bank conference, Obama outlined steps to flesh out his trade initiative. Among them: creating a mini-Cabinet of officials to focus on exports, seeking more financing to support trade efforts, beefing up enforcement of ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:47:00 GMT

Bank reform talks fail, Dodd to go solo - YAHOO!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chances of a broad overhaul of U.S. financial regulation dimmed on Thursday after bipartisan Senate talks collapsed, helping boost bank share prices and jeopardizing a top Obama administration priority. Senate Banking ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:39:00 GMT

Stocks trade flat on concern about China inflation - Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market edged higher for a third day Thursday after a rise in financial shares helped offset concern about rising inflation in China. Financial stocks rose after Citigroup Inc. CEO Vikram Pandit said the bank was on a path ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:39:00 GMT

Dr Pepper stock soars on upgrade, anticipated payday ... - Dallas Morning News
Dr Pepper Snapple Group saw its stock price soar to an all-time high Thursday as investors reacted to an analysts’ upgrade and continued to bank that the maker of Dr Pepper is in line for a payday from the maker of Coke. Shares of Plano-based Dr ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:25:00 GMT

Finance Bill to Be Offered Without G.O.P. - New York Times
The breakdown in bipartisan talks dimmed hopes for a sweeping rewrite of Wall Street’s rules, nearly two years after the collapse of the investment bank Bear Stearns started ... Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Banking Committee, has found ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:39:00 GMT

Obama's liberal base 'disengaged' - Democratic Underground.com
I am not part of his "constituency" because I am not a republican and my bank account isn't the size of a third world economy. From his first days in office, beginning with idiotic and hateful cabinet picks like Judd Gregg, he has been doing nothing ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:32:00 GMT

Pink Floyd wins UK court battle with EMI label - YAHOO!
bank provided to enable it to buy EMI in 2007. Several top acts, including Pink Floyd and Queen, are reportedly in talks with other labels, following the exodus of the Rolling Stones and Radiohead since Terra Firma took over. But EMI added in its ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:32:00 GMT

Prosecutors: Boston Blackie's owner tried to flee to ... - Chicago Breaking News - Tribune
Two banks have been identified as victims in the case, Charter One Bank, which lost about $1 million; and Washington Mutual -- now part of Chase Bank -- which lost about $833,000 in September 2008, prosecutors said. The Giannises allegedly deposited ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:56:00 GMT

Despite strikes, street violence break out in Greece ... - Allentown Morning Call
About 200 black-clad youths in crash helmets and ski masks fought sporadic street battles with the police through central Athens, smashing shop, bank and hotel windows and bus stops, setting trash bins on fire, and punching and kicking motorcycle ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:18:00 GMT

County home sales surge - Columbian
Source: Riley & Marks Inc., Vancouver. Banks unleashed a backlog of repossessed homes in February, which were priced to entice more buyers to step into the market. That contributed to a 35.9 percent rise in sales, according to a report released ...
Posted: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:32:00 GMT