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Reuters – Securities and Exchange Commission officials looked to reassure investors on Friday that they would reinvigorate the agency’s policing of Wall Street, improve the quality of credit ratings and said they expect to bring more cases against mortgage fraud.
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AP – In a story Feb. 5 about Citigroup’s residential lending unit, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Citigroup Inc. sold servicing rights on a loan portfolio to American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc. for $1.5 billion. American Home Mortgage Servicing says the dollar amount is not the outright sale price; rather, most of the $1.5 [...]

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Sometimes cultural barriers can undo a multimillion-dollar deal. Make sure the barrier isn’t you.Read More… [Source: Entrepreneur.com: Starting a Business]

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Oh, the whining over fine dining that’s been heard in the all-but empty bistros of Manhattan as the last expense account executives cut into their exquisitely tender veal and complain about the Obama salary cap!
Sure, a limit on comp will change the make-up of the individuals who surface for the top slots in banking and [...]

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Reuters – Stocks rallied for a second day on Friday on hopes Washington’s stimulus package and a bank rescue plan will bolster the ailing economy, even as data showed the biggest one-month job losses in 34 years.
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Debra Cullen (not her real name) has spent her life trying to keep things the same. “I don’t like change,” Cullen told me during our first therapy session. But her life has changed, and she’s at a loss.Read More… [Source: Small business news - CNNMoney.com]

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Reuters – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Saturday told lawmakers that financial institutions that receive government assistance will have to make loan modifications and meet other new standards, according to Democratic sources.
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NewsFactor – Amazon.com is seizing on the popularity of its electronic book reader Kindle to reach a new market. On Friday the online retailer said it will make Kindle e-books available on a variety of mobile phones, but the company is not saying which books would be available or on which phones, according to the [...]

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Business guru Tom Peters on the art of the layoff.Read More… [Source: Small business news - CNNMoney.com]

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Businesses large and small plan to increase their use of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony during the next two years, according to a recent British Telecom survey. Their objectives include increasing collaboration and lowering voice toll costs outside the office.Read More… [Source: Small business news - CNNMoney.com]

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