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  Draghi Says ECB Will Do ‘Whatever It Takes’

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 26, 2012

  ECB President Mario Draghi declared that the central bank will do “whatever it takes” to keep the euro intact, as eurozone central banks looked for new ways to spur bank lending and undo the bloc’s financial logjam.

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  Italy’s Bond Yield Falls at Sale Despite Moody’s Cut

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

  Italy passed a market test on Friday after a Moody’s downgrade that its industry minister called unjustified.

• Targeting Covered Bonds

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  June 27, 2012

  The ProShares USD Covered Bond (COBO) made its trading debut in late May.

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  Morgan Deemed ‘Winner’ in Moody’s Bank-Rating Massacre

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne, Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  June 22, 2012

  Fifteen banks in the U.S., U.K. and Europe with global capital markets operations saw their ratings cut by Moody’s, some by as many as three notches.

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  Betting on European Banks: Doomed to Fail or Shrewd Investing?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  June 18, 2012

  A University of Chicago economist warns the European Central Bank is knowingly “taking junk collateral,” while a famed fund manager is betting big on European banks.

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  Tourists Fail to Boost Employment in Spain

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 4, 2012

  Even the influx of tourists during peak travel season has failed to boost Spanish employment out of the doldrums.

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  Week’s Top Portfolio Products: AdvisorShares Launches Sustainable ETF

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 25, 2012

  New products introduced over the last week include a new sustainable ETF from AdvisorShares and Philippe Cousteau and a covered bond ETF from ProShares.

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  London’s ‘Whale’ Loses $2 Billion for JPMorgan

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 11, 2012

  CEO Jamie Dimon said that the office suffered an “egregious” failure and that losses from volatile synthetic credit securities could mount by another $1 billion in this quarter or the third.

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  Hollande Beats Sarkozy in First Vote

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  April 23, 2012

  President Nicolas Sarkozy of France finished behind the Socialist presidential candidate, Francois Hollande, in the first round of voting, and polls are predicting strong support for Hollande in the final vote two weeks from now.

• ECB Will Buy Bonds, Not Make Loans: Economists

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

  The ECB is more likely to resume buying up sovereign bonds than it is to make any more cheap long-term loans, according to a poll of economists.