Word: bearings
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...Investors, including those saving for retirement, are on uncertain ground as well. The global crisis and the stimulatory monetary and fiscal policies that were brought to bear against it have overturned all the verities about long-term investing. Exiting from those policies is not likely to reinstate them. How will equities, bonds, commodities, oil, gold, currencies and other investment vehicles fare in the post-crisis, post-stimulus-spending world? (See how Americans are spending...
...will now receive any of the $6.7 billion in loans the government had previously promised to Magna to seal the deal. The pledge had raised alarm bells in Britain, Belgium and Spain, where leaders feared that Germany was trying to curry favor with Magna and that their countries would bear the brunt of any job losses. When the European Commission said last month that it would launch an inquiry into whether Germany had been in breach of E.U. competition rules, Berlin told Brussels that such state aid would be available to any investor - not just Magna. Theoretically, this means that...
...Begleiter isn't the only Wall Streeter to have hit pay dirt at the poker tables in Las Vegas. But he might become the first to claim the game's biggest prize - and in an odd way he owes it all to his former employer, the collapsed investment house Bear Stearns...
...along comes Begleiter, an investment banker who has grabbed a coveted place in the "November Nine." He wouldn't be there if not for the implosion of his longtime employer Bear Stearns, where he headed corporate strategy and helped wind down the firm's business amid the financial panic of 2008. The demise of Bears Stearns marked the rise of Begs the poker player. After the firm was sold to JPMorgan in March of 2008, Begleiter was without work and looking for someplace to let off steam. "I decided what the heck," he recalls. "I'm going to play...
...head: today, they'll try to convince you, all politics is national. Much will be made of the results, whatever they are - likely too much, in fact. But as the first sign of Democratic and Republican electoral strength since Barack Obama was elected one year ago, the results bear watching...