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...been widely noted that the current dovetailing of the largest initial public offering in U.S. history and a panic-fueled recession seems counterintuitive. And many observers have correctly pointed out that Visa Inc. is largely immune from the downturn in consumer spending because it reaps its profits from fees charged on each transaction, as opposed to the total amount people spend. But several other underlying factors are driving this turbocharged...
...auspicious sign, too, that Visa's biggest competitor, MasterCard, which went public at $39 a share in 2006, is now trading at over $200 and has a market cap of more than $27 billion. That's about $10 billion above what Visa Inc. just raised with its IPO - and Visa is the market leader with 40% higher earnings than MasterCard. It doesn't take a math whiz to see why Wall Street is all charged up on the king of cards...
...Monoline bond insurance companies, such as MBIA and Ambac Financial Group Inc., have been hit the hardest as they scramble to raise capital to cover possible defaults and to stave off a downgrade from the ratings agencies. It was this group's foray out of its traditional municipal bonds and into mortgage-backed securities that caused the turmoil. A rating downgrade of the monoline companies could be devastating for banks and others who bought insurance protection from them to cover their corporate bond exposure...
...Moriarty said. “We’ve basically decided to proceed as a conservative measure with notifying the individuals who have been impacted and lining up the [identity theft] services for those individuals.” The University has contracted the security firm Kroll Inc. to offer identity protection services, including credit reports and setting up fraud alerts. The hacker made a portion of the server’s contents available for download through a popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing site, “The Pirate Bay,” where users can easily obtain large...
...world reads headlines such as MAFIA INC. ITALY'S LARGEST COMPANY, but none of the candidates for Prime Minister deem this worthy of mention. The Sicilian Mafia, 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and Camorra in my home region of Campania currently reign over one-third of Italy's territory, infiltrating entire sectors of the aboveboard economy - transportation, hospitals, construction, fashion, supermarkets, agriculture - like a cancer to which no part of the nation is immune...