Saturday, July 6, 2013

GOP urges Obama to push Senate on lowering student loan rates

  • Fitch Ratings - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Celebrating our first 100 years For 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been making the future a little more predictable. We'd like to thank the world's investors for putting their confidence in us. And we look forward to continuing our pursuit of answers in the century to ...

  • Was Bill Gross wrong about Treasuries

    Forbes - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    PEBBLE BEACH, CA - FEBRUARY 09: Bill Gross, CIO - PIMCO, hits a shot during the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am at the Spyglass Hill Golf on February 9, 2012 in Pebble Beach, California. (Image credit: Getty Images via ...

  • Strong stomach is needed to face the rough ride ahead on Indias equities

    The National - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    My own views are fairly positive, in the context that we have pretty much seen the worst, I believe. We will probably start to see, not a rapid, but a gradual climb-back in terms of both growth as well as the macro-economic picture of India's finances, from a public finances standpoint. That is predicated on a combination of the fact that the global economy, led by the US, seems to have ...

  • Train explosion in Quebec forces evacuation WSJ

    Market Watch - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A freight train carrying crude oil derailed in Lac Megantic, Quebec, near the Canadian border with the U.S., triggering an explosion and fire that prompted an evacuation of about 1,000 residents, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. It was not clear if there were casualties, the newspaper said. The fire had not been brought under control and the center of ...

  • GOP urges Obama to push Senate on lowering student loan rates

    Middle East Times - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Barack Obama to urge Senate Democrats to pass a bill that would halve student loan rates. Delivering the weekly Republican address, Jenkins accused Senate Democrats of allowing rates to rise on federally backed college loans when lower rates expired July 1, ABC News Radio reported. Republicans had proposed a bill that Jenkins said was similar to a plan by Obama to tie interest rates for ...

  • Wall Street Journal says Egypt needs a Pinochet ? can it get away with that | Martin Pengelly

    The Guardian - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Egypt should think itself lucky if its ruling generals now preside over a 17-year reign of terror. I also take it the WSJ means us to associate two governments removed by generals - the one led by Salvador Allende in Chile ...

  • US Rep. Jenkins Calls for Reduction of Student Loan Interest Rates

    Prensa Latina - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Washington, 6 Jul (Prensa Latina)President Obama should urge Senate Democrats to work with Republicans on legislation to reduce the interest rate on college student loans, Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.) the vice chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, said on Saturday. Jenkins's call, in the weekly Republican address, came a week after the interest rates doubled when Congress failed to ...

  • Bond investors face a reckoning as interest rates jump

    Associated Press - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    But to some bond investors it's apparently more like a five-alarm fire. As rising interest rates have pushed down the value of older bonds in the last two months, the share prices of popular bond mutual funds have slumped. Case in point: Shares of the Pimco Total Return Bond fund have dropped 6.4% since May 2. The losses aren't on the scale of what happened to stocks in 2008-09, ...

  • Europe stocks move higher after U.S. jobs data

    Market Watch - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    jobs gain for the U.S. in June . The U.S. economy added 195,000 jobs in June, against forecasts for a rise of 155,000 to 165,000, while gains for May and April were revised sharply higher. The Stoxx Europe 600 ...

  • Wall Street rallies to end week higher after June jobs report

    Global Times - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    US stocks rose in choppy trading on Friday to finish the week higher, as higher-than-expected US non-farm payrolls gains in June trumped fears over the Federal Reserve's possible tapering of its stimulus later this year.The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 147.29 points, or 0.98 percent, to 15,135.84 points. The S&P 500 rose 16.48 points, or 1. 02 percent, to 1,631.89 points. The ...

  • Open thread for night owls Wall Street exempts itself from reform

    Daily Kos - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    The Dodd-Frank financial reform act, the law designed to clean up the abuses that led to the financial crisis, celebrates its third birthday this month. But only about a third of the rules required by the legislation have been finalized so far, and even those are not going into effect as scheduled. This week provided a perfect example of why that is: The Federal Reserve granted Goldman Sachs a ...

  • Egypt sees more bloodshed

    CNN Money - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Fighting across Egypt leaves 22 people dead and hundreds more injured as fears rise of widening violence after a coup ousts the country's first democratically elected ...

  • UPDATE 1-Wall St Week Ahead For stocks theres no need to fear good news

    Reuters - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Fri Jul 5, 2013 7:28pm EDT By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK, July 5 (Reuters) - Wall Street doesn't hate good news after all. The June jobs figures were stronger than expected and caused a big selloff in the bond market. That further underscored expectations that the Federal Reserve will be chopping back its big bond-buying program sooner rather than later. This kind of occurrence in the past ...

  • Video Good news is good again on Wall Street

    The Globe and Mail - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Wall Street recovered from a roller coaster ride as investors ultimately viewed stronger-than-expected jobs data as a good thing. Conway G. Gittens ...

  • Cuomo aide turns Wall St. hammer

    Politico - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Benjamin Lawsky, Gov. Andrew Cuomo?s handpicked banking cop in New York, has emerged as the new "it" regulator among the Wall Street reform crowd.In recent months, his New York Financial Services Department has scored headline-making settlements with foreign banks over money laundering, warned the insurance industry over shadowy accounting practices and cracked down on the ...

  • Central banks in Europe extend policy announcements

    Middle East Times - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Two central banks in Europe extended their communication styles, adding qualifiers to traditionally sparse monetary policy statements. With both the European Central Bank and the Bank of England qualifying their monetary policy announcements for the first time, it appears, in part, that the more transparent communication style espoused by ...

  • Most banks will meet new capital standards Fitch

    Market Watch - Friday 5th July, 2013

    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The majority of U.S. banks will be able to meet the tougher capital requirements set by regulators, which are positive for financial stability, according to a statement by Fitch Ratings on Friday. Most banks are well positioned to either meet or exceed the requirements set out by the Federal Reserve to meet the Basel III rules, said Fitch. The rules create a two-tier ...

  • Wall Street ends up 1 per cent on strong jobs data

    Times of India - Friday 5th July, 2013

    NEW YORK: The US stock market is closing higher after a bumpy start, with investors encouraged by a big uptick in hiring. The government says that the U.S. economy added a stronger-than-expected 195,000 jobs last month. That helped investors shake off worries about the Federal Reserve scaling back its economic stimulus, which spooked markets early. ...

  • US companies could once again beat Wall Street analysts best guesses

    Star Tribune - Friday 5th July, 2013

    NEW YORK -- For Corporate America, it's the season of low expectations. Companies have been scaling back their earnings forecasts for weeks as part of a quarterly cat-and-mouse game with financial analysts. It's not OK just to report a strong second-quarter profit -- they also need to beat analysts' forecasts. And companies are eager to do just that. Earnings season gets started ...

  • GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks dollar rally U.S. yields jump on jobs data

    Reuters - Friday 5th July, 2013

    * U.S. 5-, 7- and 10-year yields highest in almost two years * Crude: best week for WTI since Feb 2011, for Brent in a year * Dollar strengthens, hits gold and copper prices * U.S. stocks rally, MSCI global gauge flat By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK, July 5 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks jumped 1 percent on Friday, while the dollar rallied and Treasury debt prices fell after strong job market data showed ...

  • US STOCKS-Wall St gains as jobs data signals stronger economy

    Reuters - Friday 5th July, 2013

    Fri Jul 5, 2013 4:49pm EDT * June job creation exceeds forecasts * S&P 500 close above 50-day moving average for the first time since June 19 * Small-cap index hits new all-time high * Dow up 1 pct; S&P up 1 pct; Nasdaq up 1 pct By Angela Moon NEW YORK, July 5 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose sharply on Friday after robust jobs data pointed to economic growth and investors overcame concerns that the ...

  • Nasdaq Composite gains 36 points to 3479

    Market Watch - Friday 5th July, 2013

    NASDAQ traded symbols and their current financial status. Intraday data delayed 15 minutes for Nasdaq, and 20 minutes for other exchanges. S&P/Dow Jones Indices (SM) from Dow Jones & Company, Inc. SEHK intraday data is provided by SIX Financial Information and is at least 60-minutes delayed. All quotes are in local exchange ...

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