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Monthly Archive October, 2009

Capmark Financial bankruptcy due soon: source

October 14, 2009

Capmark Financial Group Inc., the commercial real estate company created through a 2006 leveraged buyout of certain GMAC assets, is preparing to file for […]

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St. Louis Fed’s Bullard Urges Rule to Guide Asset Purchases

October 12, 2009

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard repeated his call for a quantitative rule to adjust the Fed’s program to buy $1.75 […]

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IBM faces rivalry despite antitrust inquiry

October 10, 2009

IBM’s dominance in large computer systems called mainframes may make it look like the U.S. government has an open and shut case of monopoly, […]

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Bank of England holds rates

October 9, 2009

The Bank of England left interest rates at a record low of 0.5 percent for the seventh month running on Thursday and said it […]

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Murdoch in Asia, checking out e-reader partners?

October 8, 2009

News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch has held talks with Japanese and South Korean firms, possibly sounding out potential partners to rival Amazon.com Inc’s Kindle […]

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HP sees aggressive PC holiday pricing

October 6, 2009

Hewlett-Packard Co, the world’s No. 1 maker of personal computers, expects very aggressive pricing in the U.S. PC market in the coming holiday season.
“I […]

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Fidelity Magellan dials up on growth, bounces back

October 5, 2009

In the 1980s, when stocks mostly surged, a few mutual fund managers became the equivalent of rock stars.
Tops among them: Peter Lynch, who […]

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U.S. jobless rate reaches 9.8 per cent

October 4, 2009

WASHINGTON–The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 per cent in September as employers cut far more jobs than expected, evidence that the longest recession since […]

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UK fraud office threatens to prosecute BAE Systems

October 3, 2009

Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Thursday it was prepared to prosecute BAE Systems
for bribery but stopped short of formally requesting a criminal […]

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