LA JOLLA, Calif. — A sell-out crowd of 140 attended Friday’s second annual Women’s Day presented by Torrey Pines Bank at the Farmers Insurance Open. The theme for the event was “Making the Cut: the Ability to Achieve” and Lisa Nichols, the author of the nationally acclaimed best-selling book “Chicken Soup for the Soul” was [...]
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The FDIC closed it’s first banks of 2012 today. A total of three insitutions were shuttered by the regulator.
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In the last two years of the FedEx Cup playoffs, a runner-up finish for Martin Laird at The Barclays and for Chez Reavie at the Deutsche Bank Championship was enough for them to lock up a spot in the Tour Championship — and three of the majors — after what had been ordinary seasons.
KAPALUA, Hawaii — In the last two years of the FedEx Cup playoffs, a runner-up finish for Martin Laird at The Barclays and for Chez Reavie at the Deutsche Bank Championship was enough for them to lock up a spot in the Tour Championship — and three of the majors — after what had been ordinary seasons. Read full article >>
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Justice Ministry has indicted five alleged Jewish extremists in connection with a rampage at an Israeli army base in the West Bank last month.
On Dec. 13, dozens of settlers and their supporters entered the base, vandalized property and attacked military personnel.
Peter Jacobsen is taking his show back to The Reserve. The Portland touring pro announced Wednesday that his second Umpqua Bank Challenge will be held Aug.
In the last two years of the FedEx Cup playoffs, a runner-up finish for Martin Laird at The Barclays and for Chez Reavie at the Deutsche Bank Championship was enough for them to lock up a spot in the Tour Championship – and three of the majors – after what had been ordinary seasons.
In the last two years of the FedEx Cup playoffs, a runner-up finish for Martin Laird at The Barclays and for Chez Reavie at the Deutsche Bank Championship was enough for them to lock up a spot in the Tour Championship — and three of the majors — after what had been ordinary seasons. That scenario is not likely to change for 2012.
It might not be the right method for everyone seeking a home loan — it requires both a good credit score (798) and some singing and guitar-playing skills — but it worked for one Georgia couple.
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The Obama Administration announced a $335 million settlement deal with Bank of America to settle charges of discriminatory lending practices. Here is, in ascending order of importance, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
The Justice Department deserves praise for responding to illegal bank behavior more aggressively than it’s done in the past. So does the Occupy movement, and so do the many Americans who have expressed their outrage over the lack of prosecutions and sweetheart bank deals. Without them it’s unlikely we’d be seeing a deal like this at all.
But while the Justice Department has taken a first step, the proposed agreement seems designed to do only the bare minimum its framers hoped would be needed to quell public outrage. While it will be sold as bold and decisive, it’s not. In fact, this deal perpetuates some of the worst failings of past settlements the government’s made with big banks.
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ZURICH (Reuters) – U.S. officials are offering 11 Swiss banks, among them Credit Suisse , a deal that allows them to avoid criminal prosecution in exchange for revealing full details of their U.S. offshore business to Washington, a paper reported on Sunday.
Famed for the care with which it protects account holders’ anonymity, the Alpine state has been forced to act by a series of U.S. probes into alleged tax evasion by Americans concealing their assets in Swiss banks.
The disgraceful attack by hardline Basijis – the same group that beat and killed peaceful demonstrators in Iran in 2009 – against the British embassy in Tehran appears on the surface to be a response to Britain’s role in imposing crippling sanctions on Iran. The US and the EU are preparing new sanctions on Iran, including potentially Central Bank and oil sanctions. And there has been an onslaught of computer viruses, assassinations of Iranian scientists, and several Iranian facilities have blown up in just a few weeks. Viewing the attack on the British embassy as a response to the increasing pressure Iran is faced with may be accurate. With Iran trying to prove to the West that it doesn’t respond to pressure, Tehran might have calculated that upping the ante may make that message crystal clear.
But there is more to this picture.
While the actions of the Basij government militia takes place in a foreign policy context and has clear implications for Iran’s relations with the West, there are also some significant domestic political roots to this crisis.
UPPER ST. CLAIR, Pa. — A bank courier van has spilled more than $100,000 in cash along a Pennsylvania highway, and motorists have stopped to grab it.
Police say much of the money was blown around by the wind. Lt. James Englert says “well into six figures” in cash is missing after the money grab in Upper St. Clair, just southwest of Pittsburgh.
Many mainstream critics argue that the European Central Bank should stop dithering and support sovereign bond markets. Others go further and call for a common European fiscal policy and common European sovereign bonds. Still others contend that the Euro was doomed from the start; putting Greece and Italy in the same currency with Germany and the Netherlands was never a good idea, because this denies countries with weak economies of temporary crises the option of devaluing. All of these criticisms have some merit, yet all miss the deeper point. This crisis occurred because bankers and shadow bankers (such as the hedge funds that are betting against Europe’s bonds) have too much power.
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