Analysts: Growing deficit hobbles economy
USA Today - Jan 15 2:43 PM
Like a person packing on pounds, the United States keeps adding to its flabby budget deficits, endangering the nation’s economic health and the pocketbooks of ordinary Americans. Here’s the worry: Persistent deficits will lead to higher borrowing costs for consumers and companies, slowing economic activity.Save to My Web
Greenspan’s swan song: A 14th rate increase
Bankrate.com - Jan 31 11:42 AM
The Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates for the 14th time in a row, to their highest level in almost five years. The central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee boosted the target federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 4.5 percent.Save to My Web
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[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Jan 17 7:45 AM
News) Schedules Fourth Quarter Year-End 2005 Conference Call February 14, 2006 at 11:00 A.M. E.T., issued Friday, Jan. 13, by Bankrate, Inc. over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the date on the third section under Bankrate Conference Schedule , should read “February 28, 2006″ rather than “March 2, 2006″ as originally issued inadvertently.Save to My Web
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Landmark - Jan 26 9:51 AM
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National City Q4 profit falls 59 pct
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Jan 17 4:15 AM
National City Corp. , the No. 8 U.S. bank, on Tuesday said fourth-quarter profit fell 59 percent, hurt by bankruptcy-related consumer loan losses and by expenses for a multiyear efficiency plan.Save to My Web
Misdirection at the White House
Washington Post - Jan 19 11:26 PM
Back in the Clinton era, people often made the mistake of trying to get to the administration Web site by typing “whitehouse.com” instead of “whitehouse.gov.” That, sources told us at the time, would take you instantly to a porn site featuring, well, the usual.Save to My Web
(AFX UK Focus) 2006-01-23 07:07 GMT: GE Consumer Finance takes 10 pct stake in Taiwan’s Cosmos Bank for 86 mln usd
Interactive Investor - Jan 22 11:36 PM
TAIPEI (AFX) - GE Consumer Finance, a unit of General Electric Co, said it has agreed to take a 10 pct stake in Taiwan’s Cosmos Bank for 86 mln usd to form a strategic alliance.Save to My Web
Search Engines: Out Of Banks’ Plain View
Bank Tech News - Feb 01 1:44 PM
Google, Yahoo! and MSN are trying to convince banks to ramp up search-engine advertising and optimization. So far, banks have not been big-time adopters.Save to My Web
Southern Utah Federal Credit Union Launches Identity Resolution Services
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Jan 31 6:00 AM
ST. GEORGE, Utah—-Jan. 31, 2006–Southern Utah Federal Credit Union today announced that they are partnering with Identity Theft 911, LLC, to assist their members through the complicated and time-consuming process of identity restoration.Save to My Web