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By Cheyenne Hopkins and Silla Brush |
March 6, 2013
Lawmakers introduced legislation that would allow more swaps trading to be conducted at banks that have federal insurance.
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By Jesse Hamilton, Bloomberg |
February 26, 2013
U.S. banks had $141.3 billion in net income last year, the second-best on record behind the $145.2 billion total reported for 2006, on non-interest income and lower loss provisions, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said.
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By Craig Torres and Cheyenne Hopkins, Bloomberg |
February 4, 2013
Top U.S. bank regulators and lawmakers are pushing for action to limit the risk that the government again winds up financing the rescue of one or more of the nation’s biggest financial institutions.
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By Silla Brush, Bloomberg |
January 4, 2013
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. won a delay of Dodd-Frank Act requirements that they wall off some derivatives trades from bank units backed by federal deposit insurance.
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By Cheyenne Hopkins, Bloomberg |
December 13, 2012
Volcker rule opponents are making their case for alternatives to the proprietary trading ban at a U.S. House Financial Services Committee hearing as regulators move closer to completing work on the Dodd-Frank Act measure.
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By Susanne Walker and Lucy Meakin, Bloomberg |
December 11, 2012
Treasuries fell, pushing 10-year yields up to the highest level in two weeks, as the U.S. prepared to sell $32 billion in three-year debt in the first of three note and bond sales this week totaling $66 billion.
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By Liz Capo McCormick and Tom Keene, Bloomberg |
December 7, 2012
Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Bill Gross, manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, said the investment company may reduce its risk profile in 2013 after posting higher-than-average returns this year.
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By Ian Katz |
December 3, 2012
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's pragmatism amid the most recent financial crisis may offer clues to the solution that will ostensibly avoid the looming fiscal cliff.
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By John L. Caiazzo |
October 21, 2012
Are the markets doomed to repeat the bleak Monday that occurred a quarter-century ago? It's unlikely, but that doesn't mean traders shouldn't be wary.
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By Joshua Gallu and Robert Schmidt, Bloomberg |
October 19, 2012
What Mary Schapiro considered her most important task had just run aground, a symbol of the aspirations and missed opportunities of her tenure as head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
