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  SEC Enforcement Roundup: Hedge Fund Manager Fined $44 Million in China Scheme

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  December 13, 2012

  Among recent enforcement actions taken by the SEC were charges against a Miami-based entrepreneur for defrauding investors.

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  BlackRock’s Fink: U.S. Politicians ‘Snoring Away’ on Europe, Economy

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  July 5, 2012

  Fink says no full recovery in United States until 2014; adds that the resignation of Barclay’s Diamond is “sad for me.”

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  ‘Living Wills’ Expose Banks’ Fragility, but Won’t Forestall Disaster

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  June 28, 2012

  Sunday is the deadline for the biggest banks to submit "living wills" providing regulators a roadmap to break them up if the financial system is threatened. But Simon Johnson says the time to break up too-big-to-fail banks is now.

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  S&P Ratings Overhaul Hits Banks Hard

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 30, 2011

  Standard & Poor's revamped its ratings criteria and lowered the ratings of 15 U.S. and European banks by one notch on Tuesday, leaving 20 more bank ratings unchanged and raising two by a notch apiece.

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  Top 10 Terrible Predictions About Economy

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  November 11, 2011

  On 11/11/11, while the world still exists despite some predictions otherwise, a review by AdvisorOne of 10 terrible predictions about the markets and the economy.

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  MF Global Bankruptcy Spooks Investors; First U.S. Casualty of Europe’s Debt Crisis

  By Chris Kahn, Associated Press, Daniel Wagner, Associated Press  |  October 31, 2011

  MF Global Holdings Ltd., the securities firm run by former New Jersey Governor and Goldman Sachs head Jon Corzine, is seeking bankruptcy protection in what is seen as the first major U.S. casualty of Europe's debt crisis.

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  Q3 Earnings: Goldman Joins Other Big Banks in Struggle Through Bad Economic Climate

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  October 18, 2011

  Joining other big banks that have reported Q3 2011 earnings in the last week, Goldman Sachs on Tuesday announced less-than-stellar results due to trading and investment bank weakness.

• Sarkozy, Merkel: Plan Soon to Recapitalize Banks

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 10, 2011

  After a weekend meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the two emerged with the announcement that they would proceed with devising a plan this month to recapitalize banks in the euro zone

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  Chinese Banks Take Beating by Investors

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 27, 2011

  China’s credit boom appears to be on its way out, and it may take its banks along with it.

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  Why You Should Care About the Greek Crisis

  By Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M., William H. Byrnes, Esq.  |  September 21, 2011

  Greek default fears are starting to infect Germany and its banks, which have significant holdings of Greek sovereign debt. And the infection is spreading to the U.S. because of close connections between U.S. and German banks.