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...order to make money from the arbitrage - and consequently correct the spread - a company would need capital and storage arrangements for the oil. A firm could borrow money to buy oil in the spot market or the front-month futures contract. More money would be needed to handle margin costs of a short contract in the futures market...
...Before becoming the first African-American elected to statewide office in Maryland in 2003, Steele worked as a corporate securities attorney at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington...
...anything to encourage banks to make more loans. Yes, banks have gotten nearly $300 billion in money from the government, and that's a lot of dough. But it's not free dough. In return for federal cash, the government has taken preferred-stock shares as the firm's markers. Unlike common stock, which is the kind you or I would buy from a broker, preferreds have to eventually be paid back, so they are really loans, not additional capital. (See which country has the best bailout plans...
...weren't publicly revealed until early January, have angered shareholders, some of whom have sued the company for not informing them sooner. And last week, the losses also led Lewis to ask Merrill's top executive, John Thain, to resign for failing to keep BofA officials apprised of his firm's bottom-line problems. Thain says Lewis knew all along. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...elected state GOP chairman, and two years later he was elected lieutenant governor. In 2006, he ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. Senate seat but managed to attract a significant share of votes from the state's large black electorate. After that episode, he joined a prominent Washington law firm and became a frequent commentator on Fox News during the 2008 presidential race...