the Financial Times

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  Will ECB Do QE and Start Printing Money? Strategists See Growing Possibility

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 18, 2011

  Although France and Germany are still wrangling over the part that the European Central Bank should play in resolving the spreading debt crisis across the eurozone, apparently one thing is believed possible despite their disagreements: that the ECB could start printing money.

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  UBS to Trim Investment Bank, Emphasize Wealth Management

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  November 17, 2011

  UBS revealed plans Thursday to strengthen its wealth-management units while scaling down its investment bank and introducing new performance targets companywide.

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  EFSF Denies Reports of Own Bond Purchases

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 14, 2011

  After a report by Britain's Sunday Telegraph that the European Financial Stability Facility had to resort to buying its own bonds when investors shunned them, the EFSF denied the report.

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  Occupy Wall Street Turns One Month Old, Goes Global

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  October 17, 2011

  President Obama has spoken sympathetically of the leaderless protest movement, Republican candidates have criticized it, Paul Krugman speaks of the group's positive potential while rioters in Rome attest to its destructive potential...

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  Galleon’s Rajaratnam Sentenced to 11 Years for Insider Trading

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  October 13, 2011

  Raj Rajaratnam, the 54-year-old co-founder of hedge fund Galleon Group, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Thursday, one of the longest punishments ever handed down for insider trading.

• Moody's Downgrades British Banks

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 7, 2011

  Moody's on Friday downgraded a dozen U.K. banks, including Lloyds TSB Bank, a unit of Lloyds Banking Group, and Royal Bank of Scotland, saying that there was increasing likelihood that smaller banks would be allowed to fail if troubles worsened.

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  JPMorgan’s Dimon Blasts Banking Rules, Krugman Blasts Dimon

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  September 12, 2011

  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called Basel III capital rules “blatantly anti-American” and suggested the U.S. should consider withdrawing from the group. Times Columnist Paul Krugman then took a shot at Dimon.

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  PIMCO’s Gross Warns Fed’s ‘Helicopter Ben’ on Lending

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  September 7, 2011

  PIMCO Chairman Bill Gross warned that the Fed’s ‘showering of money’ on the economy to combat deflation may end up harming long-term lending.

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  Peter Schiff: Gold Is the ‘Last Haven Standing’

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  September 2, 2011

  Peter Schiff, the one-time Senate candidate and controversial CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals, says gold, the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen are the preferred assets to the dollar. All three surged in August, yet Schiff notes the franc and the yen are being actively devalued by central banks...

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  News Analysis: Are We in a Recession?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  August 30, 2011

  Consumer confidence plunged to two-year lows in August, stoking predictions and outright declarations that the economy has slipped into recession. The latest Consumer Confidence Index reading of 44.5 is lower than the 53.9 average for the 2007-2009 recession.