Month: January 2011

Does the Super Bowl Help Boost Advertisers’ Stock Prices?

Private Finance – Does the Super Bowl Help Boost Advertisers’ Stock Prices?
 Investing in the shares of advertisers works because companies gunfire out huge bucks for air time are commonly in no doubt about their futures.
Kiplinger Private Finance – http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/picks/archive/does-the-super-bowl-help-boost-advertisers-stock-prices.html

Obama, U.S. Will Feel Fallout from Egypt

Private Finance – Obama, U.S. Will Feel Fallout from Egypt
 After Mubarak, oil prices and tensions will rise.
Kiplinger Private Finance – http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/washington/archives/obama-us-will-feel-fallout-from-egypt.html

Should You Pay Kids to Shovel Snow?

Private Finance – Should You Pay Kids to Shovel Snow?
 Whether (and how much) you compensate locality kids for their help depends on the circumstances.
Kiplinger Private Finance – http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/drt/archive/should-you-pay-kids-to-shovel-snow.html

GDP Recovers Its Recession Losses

Private Finance – GDP Recovers Its Depression Losses
 Even if there’s no more talk of a double dip, even stronger fiscal growth is vital to pull down the unemployment rate
Kiplinger Private Finance – http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/gdp-up-but-not-enough-to-cut-unemployment.html

Where’s My Payroll Tax Cut?

Private Finance – Where’s My Payroll Tax Cut?
 Here’s why your pay packet may not have risen as it should have in January.
Kiplinger Private Finance – http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/kiptips/archives/wheres-my-payroll-tax-cut.html

Valentine’s Day Getaway Deals

Private Finance – Valentine’s Day Getaway Deals
 Save money on hotels and airfare if you’re schooling a romantic escape.
Kiplinger Private Finance – http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/kiptips/archives/valentines-day-getaway-deals.html

SEC Releases Money Market Fund Portfolio and "Shadow Nav" Information to the Public

Banking News – SEC Releases Money Market Fund Choice and "Shadow Nav" In rank to the Public
&nbspThe Securities and Chat Fee today announced that investors can for the first time access fussy in rank that money market funds file with the Fee — counting in rank about a fund’s funds and the market-based price of its choice known as its “shadow NAV” (net asset value) or mark-to-market appraisal.
SEC.gov Updates: Press Releases – http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-32.htm

SEC Charges Maxwell Technologies for Long-Running Bribery Scheme in China

Banking News – SEC Charges Maxwell Technologies for Long-Running Bribery Scheme in China
&nbspThe Securities and Chat Fee today charged energy-related harvest manufacturer Maxwell Technologies Inc. with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by over and over again paying bribes to regime officials in China to obtain affair from several Chinese state-owned entities.
SEC.gov Updates: Press Releases – http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-31.htm

PNC in Deal for 19 BankAtlantic Branches in Florida

Banking News – PNC in Deal for 19 BankAtlantic Twigs in Florida
&nbspBankAtlantic Bancorp said Monday that PNC Fiscal Air force Group has agreed to buy 19 of its Florida twigs and $350 million in linked deposits.
Union Banking – http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/176_20/bankatlactic-pnc-1032142-1.html

BankAtlantic Agrees to Sell 19 Tampa Branches to PNC

Banking News – BankAtlantic Agrees to Sell 19 Tampa Twigs to PNC
&nbspA price tag for the deal, but BankAtlantic said PNC has agreed to pay a premium for the approximately $350 million linked with the twigs plus two related conveniences.
Union Banking – http://www.americanbanker.com/syndication/bankatlactic-pnc-1032140-1.html

Melrose chief settles with Advantage

Banking News – Melrose chief settles with Benefit
&nbspRobert Adair has agreed to pay several million pounds to Benefit Capital, the private equity group, to settle allegations he defaulted on his £37.5m stanchness to its latest fund
Fiscal Times – Fiscal Air force – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0efa568a-2d6b-11e0-8f53-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss

JPMorgan strikes important deal for longevity trading

Banking News – JPMorgan strikes vital deal for endurance trading
&nbspThe endurance hedging trade, constructed for the closed UK defined benefit pension scheme of Pall, covers £70m worth of liabilities out of the £120m scheme
Fiscal Times – Fiscal Air force – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d36b8d58-2d62-11e0-8f53-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss

Litigation fund raises £40m

Banking News – Legal action fund raises £40m
&nbspCalunius Capital, which provides financing to companies knotted in legal disputes, is hoping to cash in on the growing tide of legal battles from the credit crunch
Fiscal Times – Fiscal Air force – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8bca0998-2cc7-11e0-83bd-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss

FinnCap focus on small companies pays off

Banking News – FinnCap focus on small companies pays off
&nbspThe broking house’s approach of specialising in small companies has helped it rise in a league table of Aim brokers. With 65 clients, it is now second only to Seymour Pierce
Fiscal Times – Fiscal Air force – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e82c5196-2c9a-11e0-83bd-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss

Princeton professor wins essay contest

Banking News – Princeton professor wins essay contest
&nbspDrawing on examples from the UK, Korea and the US, Hyun Song Shin’s essay advocated a global tax on non-core banking liabilities as the best way to deflate bubbles in the banking parameter essay struggle
Fiscal Times – Fiscal Air force – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/57dc5966-2d6b-11e0-8f53-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss

Hedge funds get back to fundamentals

Banking News – Hedge funds get back to nitty-gritty
&nbspCanny investors are anticipating the setback of a trend dating back to the fall of the infamous LTCM
Fiscal Times – Fiscal Air force – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5ac05f60-2d70-11e0-8f53-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss

Malone’s Liberty Global in race for KBW

Banking News – Malone’s Liberty Global in race for KBW
&nbspLiberty Global, Kabel Deutschland and US and UK buy-out groups have emerged as bidders in the auction of German cable machinist Kabel Baden-Württemberg
Fiscal Times – Fiscal Air force – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e030acb4-2ca2-11e0-83bd-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss

Man Group launches fund using brokers’ tips

Banking News – Man Group launches fund using brokers’ tips
&nbspThe fund will be hedge fund manager’s first traded product and only the third hedge fund-linked ETF launch ever
Fiscal Times – Fiscal Air force – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c057c066-2ca8-11e0-83bd-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss

Spain’s new caja group eyes IPO

Banking News – Spain’s new caja group eyes IPO
&nbspThe newly made Spanish banking group led by Caja Madrid will list on the stock market to boost its capital once it has details of Spain’s projected new set of laws
FT.com – Banks – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6cd53688-2d63-11e0-8f53-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss

Portugal’s BES to cut dividend by 10%

Banking News – Portugal’s BES to cut bonus by 10%
&nbspThe country’s largest listed bank by market capitalisation is to reduce its pay-out after the central bank urged lenders to shore up their capital with retained return
FT.com – Banks – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3344f75c-2d39-11e0-9b0f-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss