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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Wall Street stories: 371 news summaries

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Battle for Tech-Savvy
New Grads Heats Up

Geeks are a hot commodity on the job market

Jun 29, 07 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Demand for students and recent grads with top-notch tech skills is higher than it's been in over a decade, thanks in part to banks and securities firms waging the recruiting wars alongside Silicon Valley giants such as Google. Bloomberg goes inside the process of wooing the so-called millennials, born between... More »

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technology • Google • Wall Street • Silicon Valley • recruits • finance

Wall Street, GOP Team Up on Tax Bill

Proposal would raise tax rate for  private-equity profits from 15% to 35%

Jun 28, 07 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Wall Street stormed Washington yesterday, as more than 70 lobbyists for financial firms met with GOP lawmakers to organize opposition to a bill that would raise the tax rate on private-equity partners. The proposal would require managers at private partnerships to pay the normal income tax rate of up to... More »

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private equity • Wall Street • Republican • taxes • GOP • Henry Paulson • finance

CPI Registers Spring Spike

Energy, food drive big May bump in consumer spending as core inflation stays cool

Jun 15, 07 11:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The consumer price index jumped 0.7% in May, riding high energy prices to its second-biggest spike in 16 years. But the volatile food and energy sectors appeared not to disrupt the rest of the economy, MarketWatch reports. The core CPI, which excludes food and gas prices, rose only 0.... More »

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inflation • Ben Bernanke • Wall Street • Federal Reserve • Consumer Price Index • core inflation • finance • interest • US economy

Wall Street Mogul Starts N(ew)FL

Investment banker, Google exec lay groundwork to challenge NFL next year

May 30, 07 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wall Street renegade Bill Hambrecht is taking on one of America's biggest monopolies and launching his own professional football league. The United Football League plans to launch its challenge to the NFL's hegemony in 2008 with eight teams in non-NFL markets, including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Mexico City. One... More »

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Google • Wall Street • NFL • Mexico City • Mark Cuban • Las Vegas • Los Angeles • United Football League • Bill Hambrecht • football

Former Exec Rails on Paydays

May 17, 07 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead is appalled by Wall Street's salary binge, and he wants his ex-employer to snap out of it. In an ornery interview with Bloomberg News, Whitehead, who ran the company from 1976 to 1984, says hedge funds sparked the rush toward obscene paydays but Goldman... More »

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Wall Street • Goldman Sachs • John Whitehead • hedge fund • salary

Inflation Cools, Heats Wall Street

But gas prices, at record highs, still worrisome

May 15, 07 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - The core consumer price index stayed steady last month, rising just 0.2% and cooling worries about inflation. The overall CPI, which responds to fluctuating food and energy costs, climbed 0.4%, still well within the comfort zone. That's good news for the Fed, which held interest rates steady last... More »

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inflation • stock market • Wall Street • Federal Reserve • Consumer Price Index • core inflation

The Class System at Dow Jones

how class system favors Dow Jones

May 3, 07 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - In rejecting Rupert Murdoch's offer for Dow Jones, the Bancroft family provides a textbook example of the case for—and against—dual class shares for media companies. With their shares carrying ten times the voting power of publicly traded shares, the family has the power to spurn a suitor it... More »

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Wall Street • Rupert Murdoch • Dow Jones • Bancroft • stocks • Sulzberger family

Wall Street Snapping Up Losers  

Tech companies with
no profits are enjoying hot IPOs again

Mar 28, 07 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Money-losing tech companies are enjoying overheated IPOs again. In a disconcerting echo of 1999, Forbes reports more than half the companies going public so far this year have yet to turn a profit. "The losers may be us," Quentin Hardy cautions, "a public suddenly so hot for... More »

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technology • Wall Street • stocks • IPO • tech companies

Wall Street Tigers Bearish on Stocks

Investment club moves to hedge funds, private equity instruments

Mar 28, 07 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tiger 21—the elite investment club whose members have at least $10 million each — is moving away from stocks and into alternatives like hedge funds and private equity instruments. Michael Sonnenfeldt, Tiger 21 founder, reports that assets in stocks are down 10 percent from last year, based on members'... More »

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private equity • stock market • Wall Street • Michael Sonnenfeldt • stocks • investments • Tiger 21 • hedge fund

Sloan Reviews
the Blackstone IPO Filing

Not quite financial porn, but some revealing moments

Mar 26, 07 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) -  The IPO filing for the notoriously secretive Blackstone Group wasn't the tell-all Wall Street watchers had hoped for, says Newsweek’s Wall Street editor Allan Sloan, who searched in vain for how big a stake is held by the private equity partnership's  two Mr. Bigs, Steve Schwarzman and Pete... More »

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Wall Street • Blackstone Group • Steve Schwarzman • finance • IPO • Pete Peterson

Financial Action Flees
to London

Goldman Sachs is now doing as much business abroad as on Wall Street

Mar 20, 07 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Wall Street’s position as the center of the financial universe—unchallenged for more than a century—is under serious threat from the City of London, according to John Gapper. London is catching up with Gotham in bond trading, already ahead in derivatives and the place to be for really... More »

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investing • international trade • Wall Street • London • New York City • Goldman Sachs • business • finance

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