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...bright green tint. For the idea to work, the private-investment community needs TLC from government policy: transparency, longevity and certainty. "That's what investors are looking for," says Kevin Parker, global head of Deutsche Bank's asset-management division. "But they're not getting it at the global level." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
When politicians began discussing similar restrictions at the federal level, nervous investors sold off the pawnshop stocks. When the most restrictive proposal - a 36% cap proposed by Senator Richard Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois - failed to win support, the shares rebounded. However, the Senator has reintroduced the bill in the current session of Congress, and it could ultimately find its way into financial-industry reform. More worrisome to investors is the potential power of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, part of the financial-reform bill recently passed by the House and under consideration in the Senate. Under the current versions...
...were already too many constraints. He said that since his firm began to be regulated by the Federal Reserve and not the Securities and Exchange Commission - a switch that happened when Goldman became a bank-holding company in late 2008 - the oversight of his firm had increased to a level that, given all that had happened, seemed right. "Perhaps there should have been more [regulation] than there was before September 2008," he said in response to a question about whether regulators had done their job leading up to the crisis. "But now it feels like a lot, and appropriately...
...Everyone was really ready to go, and I was pleased with everybody’s fitness level,” Gray added...
...theatrics struck a blow at a relationship as important to Israel as it has become fragile in recent months. Turkey, a NATO member that shares borders with such key Israeli adversaries as Syria and Iran, has long had a close relationship with the Jewish state, particularly at the level of military cooperation. Sources within Israel's Defense Ministry expressed concern that the Ayalon-Celikkol incident might imperil the visit to Turkey by Defense Minister Ehud Barak that is scheduled for Jan. 17. Barak plans to offer Turkey's military establishment an even tighter relationship with Israel. Already, the security relationship...