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2009 年最热英文单词

in Wangtam, on 2009-12-01

... Cartel — In Mexico, at the center of the battle over drug trafficking ...

Sarbox Lite or the end of Sarbanes-Oxley?

in Sox First, on November 25, 2009

...ection Act of 2009 which allows most companies to never comply with the law. Norris quotes former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt saying: "That the Democratic Party is the ...

One in seven US home loans at risk of foreclosures

in Sox First, on November 20, 2009

What chances of a US recovery? Don't hold your breath. As reported here , foreclosures will keep rising through 2010 and one in seven US home loans is now past due or in foreclosure. The quarterly delinquency measure is at its highest level since 1972. br />All up, just over 14% of US home l...

New fair value rule to face test

in Sox First, on November 16, 2009

...h the classification and measurement of financial assets, such as loans, as well as debt and equity securities using fair value. Sox First will remember how the banks were screaming about fair value, ...

Goldman Sachs and God

in Sox First, on November 9, 2009

... New York Stock Exchange (John Thain and Duncan Niederauer); the chief operating officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division (Adam Storch). No wonder they call it Governm...

FFXIII Anagram Solved: Announcement Nov Thirteenth

in Wangtam, on 2009-11-08

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MBA turkeys and the market

in Sox First, on November 8, 2009

...ley O'Neal and his successor John Thain, bank bail out master Henry Paulson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox, former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and his su...

Schon gesehen? - Zur Konjunktur: Die Abkühlungszeichen verdichten sich, Immobilienmarkt

in Das Börsen Weblog, on 07.11.09

...rtikel: Immobilienflaute trifft einige Bundesstaaten heftig. So kommen am Mittwoch: Mortgage Application Survey, Existing Home Sales und am Donnerstag die New Home Sales (für Juli). Darüberhinaus die...

Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash

in Sox First, on November 5, 2009

...dman Sachs actions by accusing the bank of selling securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages while at the same time placing bets that the US housing market would crash. As Boston Univ... ...aises serious questions about the legality of Goldman Sachs actions by accusing the bank of selling securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages while at the same time placing bets that ...

Commercial real estate: an accounting shell game

in Sox First, on November 1, 2009

...was warning the commercial real estate market in the United States looked likely to trigger a new mortgage crisis with a soaring delinquency rate and building owners struggling to finance the massiv...

Madoff calls SEC's Schapiro a "dear friend": jailhouse interview

in Sox First, on November 1, 2009

...k into the SEC investigators and says he was amazed he wasn't caught. More alarmingly, he describes Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro as a "dear friend" and says she "probably thi...

Seen that? - Pillow Talk

in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 31, 2009

...s it with insider trading? Why is there a spate of cases involving dirty trades and pillow talk?The Securities and Exchange Commission has so far filed seven insider trading cases against married coup...

Schon gesehen? - Die wichtigsten Wirtschaftsdaten für heute

in Das Börsen Weblog, on 28.10.09

...mmobilienflaute trifft einige Bundesstaaten heftig. So kommen am Mittwoch: Mortgage Application Survey, Existing Home Sales und am Donnerstag die New Home Sales (für Juli). Darüberhinaus die Schätzun...

Breaking up the banks

in Sox First, on October 28, 2009

...ker has called for the reinstatement of laws that stop banks from owning and trading risky securities. Still, their calls are unlikely to get any traction from the Obama administration which seems...

Sun Microsystems to Cut 3,000 Jobs

in Java Entrepreneur, on October 22, 2009

...racle in April," writes Times Online's Mike Harvey . "Sun said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the layoffs would come from all its major regions, including...

!0 more to be charged with insider trading

in Sox First, on October 21, 2009

... trading is just the beginning. Bloomberg reports that US investigators plan to charge another 10 securities professionals with insider trading. And who knows what comes after that? All this sugge...

Is the US ready for IFRS?

in Sox First, on October 20, 2009

... Earlier this year, the then incoming head of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Schapiro indicated she was in no hurry to bring global accounting standards (otherwise known as Intern...

Seen that? - A VOD Ad Network is Possible

in The Digital TV Weblog, on October 19, 2009

...Plans at The Digital TV Weblog At the Banc of America Securities media conference in New York City last month, Time Warner Cable CEO, Glenn Britt, and Cab...

How the ratings agencies sold out investors

in Sox First, on October 19, 2009

... also stacked its compliance department with the people who awarded the highest ratings to pools of mortgages that soon were downgraded to junk. Such products have another name now: 'toxic assets' ...... ... After helping to create the financial collapse by giving dodgy securities triple-A ratings, moves are afoot to bring ratings agencies into line with legislation designed to make them collecti...

Hedge funds lied to investors

in Sox First, on October 15, 2009

...n badly exposed in a new study Trust and Delegation . Hedge funds were instrumental in buying bad securities and and helping bring the world's financial system to its knees. The study found that ha...

Deciding What You Can Afford in a House

in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 13, 2009

...ut last time) assumes that with 20% down, you'll need 25% of monthly household income to cover your mortgage, real estate taxes, and insurance—the banks start out by being slightly more generous. Most...

Mortgages: 30-year or 15-year?

in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 11, 2009

...copy; sfadden Get Rich Slowly ran a piece late last month that compared 15-year and 30-year mortgages. The fairly lengthy blog post is based on the personal experience of one of GRS's staf...

China's Problems with the Falling Dollar are its Own Fault

in China Venture News, on October 11, 2009

...d other major currencies, China and other emerging economic powers holding lots of dollars and U.S. securities are crying foul, and for an end to the dollar’s central status in global commerce. If ...

A system to let institutions fail

in Sox First, on October 11, 2009

...system. As a result, the market imploded with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. As a result, former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt says we need to have a new system that all...

Seen that? - NYSE Value, is in Goldman`s mind

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 9, 2009

... Pan Asian Biz is one of several sources reporting that the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has approved the New York stock exchange Group (NYSE). What t...

FBI probes BoFA-Merrill deal

in Sox First, on September 21, 2009

...as already stinking to high heaven with the Bank of America being forced to pay $33 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading shareholders about the billions of dollars of bon...

Elderly turn to bank robbery in recession

in Sox First, on September 20, 2009

...s impact with reports about how Michael Casey Wilson, 69, was forced to rob a bank to pay his 17% mortgage. Up until now, Wilson has had a clean record. This follows on from a Washington Post repor...

The financial meltdown and tell-tale emails

in Sox First, on September 15, 2009

...c collateralised debt obligations? The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS staff knew these debt securities were bad and sent off emails making that point quite clear. "OK still have this vomi...

Banker lived it up on foreclosure

in Sox First, on September 12, 2009

... Hats off to the Los Angeles Times for bringing us the story that while the mortgage crisis has resulted in people losing their homes and banks closing down, there is one executive at Wells Farg...

SEC links to Madoff scam

in Sox First, on September 7, 2009

...ver the weekend, I did a blog entry looking at whether Bernard Madoff's victims could sue the Securities and Exchange Commission for its negligence. Certainly, Madoff himself expressed surpris...

Can the SEC be sued for Madoff?

in Sox First, on September 7, 2009

... At the end of last year, a 61 year old New York woman Phyllis Molchatsky sued the Securities and Exchange Commission for negligence after she lost $2 million investing with Bernard Madoff. No...

New Final Fantasy XIII Shonen Jump Scan

in Wangtam, on 2009-09-04

...ases.net • Sell Handmade Crafts • Server Makers Go Retro as Sales Plummet • Happy 10th birthday, Blogger ...

Madoff: contender for SEC chairman

in Sox First, on September 3, 2009

...d Madoff, now spending the rest of his life in jail, was actually a contender to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's the revelation in this SEC report into the regulato...

Free Software Foundation trashes Windows 7

in Wangtam, on 2009-08-29

...s? • Wikitude.me - Geo-tag the World • Zoho Creator Partner Program • OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 Final for Windows • OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 Final for Linux • OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 Final for Mac OS •...

Up to 1000 more bank failures

in Sox First, on August 28, 2009

...ruggling to stay afloat. "While the early losses were related to residential loans and complex mortgage-related assets ... where the crisis really began ... we're now seeing problems with mor...

No relief from foreclosure mess

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 24, 2009

... worse. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, one in every eight U.S. households with mortgages was either in foreclosure or behind on its mortgage payments in the second quarter of thi...

Who is buying up US debt?

in Sox First, on August 23, 2009

... report, the grouping known as the Caribbean Banking Centers holds $189.7 billion worth of Treasury securities. That group takes in the Cayman Islands, home to US hedge funds and investment vehicles. ...

Cocaine dollars

in Sox First, on August 18, 2009

... maybe. Let's just see if that's reflected in the unemployment, bankruptcy, foreclosure and mortgage delinquency figures. And before you rush off to sniff a bill, the Big Bear Observation Po...

Is renting the new American Dream?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 15, 2009

...ry about the fear and anxiety that a home can cause when its owners are struggling to make their mortgage payments. The threat of foreclosure is a terrifying one. It's certainly no American drea...

Foreclosures dogging the middle class

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 14, 2009

...boom? We liked to say it was because of all those greedy homeowners who took out high-risk subprime mortgages to get into homes they couldn't really afford. Well, today's foreclosure victim i...

Scams bigger than Bernie

in Sox First, on August 14, 2009

... Remember Harry Markopolos ? He was the whistleblower who alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission to Bernard Madoff's scam. The guy who was ignored by the SEC until it was too late. N...

Loan clinic the cure for mortgage ailments?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 13, 2009

...Pres. Barack Obama has put an increasing amount of pressure on mortgage companies to restructure the loans of homeowners who are struggling to make their monthly payments. Many homeowners, though, hav...

Liquidia Technologies Raises $7 Million

in Nanotechbuzz, on August 13, 2009

...d over $7 million in new funding, according to a regulatory filing. "A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals the company raised $7,031,130 in equity," accordin...

Mortgage rates on the rise, again

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 12, 2009

...There was one positive of the housing slump: Mortgage interest rates kept going down. Now that the housing market is in the early stages of a fragile recovery, mortgage interest rates are no longer f...

Madoff's right hand man pleads guilty: who's next?

in Sox First, on August 12, 2009

...court heard that this was happening as early as the 80s, so nearly 30 years ago. Why didn't the Securities and Exchange Commission pick it up? A new book Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Ma...

Citigroup and Norwegian greed

in Sox First, on August 11, 2009

...the fallout from the meltdown continues with reports that Norwegian municipalities and a bankrupt securities broker, Terra Securities, are suing Citigroup for $200 million after losing all their mon...

Family to lose home because of seven cents

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 11, 2009

...Pres. Barack Obama wants mortgage companies to do everything in their power to prevent families from losing their homes to foreclosure. You can bet he's not thrilled with a story that ran earlier ...

Odds are good you'll be "underwater" by 2011

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 10, 2009

...ll be "underwater" by 2011. No homeowner wants this. It's when you owe more on your mortgage loan than what your home is worth. According to a news story in the Victorville Daily Press,...

GE cooks the books

in Sox First, on August 9, 2009

...E's auditors KPMG. Echoes of Arthur Andersen. Accounting commentator J. Edward Ketz says the Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro is doing the public an injustice by going too...

Global Recovery

in China Venture News, on August 7, 2009

...leinfeld, Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) CEO Richard Adkerson, CEO Donald Tang of Hong Kong-based Citic Securities International Partners, and Joe Meuse, president of financial consulting firm Belmont Par...

US mortgages underwater

in Sox First, on August 7, 2009

...on for some time, even if it's unofficial. Bloomberg reports that 48% of US homeowners with a mortgage are likely to owe more than their properties are worth before the housing recession end. In...

Fate stay night /命运之夜 最强的从者 SABER 制服版手办

in Wangtam, on 2009-08-07

... • TomTom iPhone pricing leaked • The Summarizer • Windows 7: The Best Features and Tips • Windows 7 Review: You Can Quit Complaining Now • Mashable's Twitter Guide Book Now Available fo...

More good news for the housing industry

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 7, 2009

...ed to the housing market. Simply put, if people are buying and selling homes — and taking out mortgage loans while doing it — the country's economy seems to hum along. When people are ...

What to do when those mortgage payments get hard to make

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 6, 2009

...injury. You might even be struggling through a messy divorce. All of these can cause you to miss a mortgage payment. Or more. You wouldn't be alone. A growing number of homeowners today are str...

Google 出价 1.065 亿美元收购 On2

in Wangtam, on 2009-08-06

Google 表示 将斥资 1.065 亿美元收购数字视频压缩技术提供商 On2 Technologies。 根据协议规定,每股 On2 股票将转换为价值 0.60 美元的 Google 普通股。交易规模大约在1 .065 亿美元。整个交易预计将在今年第四季度完成。 Google 拥有广受欢迎的视频共享网站 YouTube。而 On2 是一家数字视频压缩技术提供商,在网络视频日益盛行的今天,数字视频压缩技术已成为一个重要法宝。 Google 产品管理副总裁 Sundar Pichai 在声明中表示,"现在视频已经是 Web 体验的一个重要组成部分,我们相信高品质的视频压...

Loan modifications not fast enough for foreclosures

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 5, 2009

...TruthAbout... Pres. Barack Obama's foreclosure-prevention program has seen some successes: Mortgage companies have offered to modify more than 406,000 existing mortgage loans, hopefully to kee...

Mortgage companies falling down on loan-modification help

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 4, 2009

Mortgage lenders have received their share of grief for the country's housing and financial crises. Many blame the companies for passing out risky mortgage loans to borrowers who never should have qualified for mortgage financing in the first place. Now mortgage companies are under new criticis...

Want a good retirement? Pay off that mortgage loan first

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 3, 2009

...ls? Will you have enough to meet any unexpected money challenges that pop up? Then there's the mortgage question. According to a story by the Boston College Center for Retirement Research, a grow...

Skype to shut down?

in Sox First, on August 1, 2009

...cheduled for hearing before the English High Court in June next year. eBay's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission makes it quite clear that Skype's future really hangs on the ...

Is the housing greed a thing of the past?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 31, 2009

...There are a lot of reasons for the big housing crash that the country is still fighting through. Mortgage lenders loaned out money to customers who weren't financially able to handle a large month...

Is the housing bust over?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 30, 2009

...my income is tied into the housing industry because I write for several publications that cover the mortgage and real estate businesses. I'm thrilled to see things finally start to improve. Perso...

Putting the presidential squeeze on the mortgage firms

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 29, 2009

... wants. And what he wants now — besides the passage of health-insurance reform — is for mortgage service companies to do everything they can to keep homeowners from losing their houses to ...

Loan-modification program not meeting its goals

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 28, 2009

...p with a program to reduce the number of home foreclosures across the country by modifying existing mortgage loans. Problem is, the program hasn't had the impact that administration officials had ...

Mortgage firms get to tell Obama their side of the story

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 27, 2009

...Do you trust mortgage firms to carry out Pres. Barack Obama's programs designed to keep people from losing thier homes to foreclosure? How about the government itself? Do you trust it to do anythi...

First SOX clawback

in Sox First, on July 26, 2009

...running the company when misleading information was being put out. And now for the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that former chief executive officer of CSK Auto C...

Making mortgages easier to understand

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 24, 2009

Mortgage lenders have taken a lot of the blame for the collapse of the housing market. They approved borrowers who couldn't pay back their mortgage loans. They pushed other homebuyers to take out risky mortgage loans that these borrowers didn't fully understand. This led to higher foreclosur...

More data that show an upswing in housing market

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 23, 2009

You can practically hear the real estate agents screaming for joy. Yes, there is yet more evidence today that the housing market is in the midst of a recovery. Yes, it's early in the process. And, yes, again, it's still a fragile recovery. But it is a recovery, and that means that real ...

Is buying nearly as affordable as renting? Don't believe the hype

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 22, 2009

...owning a house made more financial sense than did renting. Inevitably, they'd say that with low mortgage interest rates, the monthly payment for a house wasn't much higher than a typical month...

More real estate culprits still making money off industry

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 21, 2009

...Yesterday, I wrote about a shady mortgage loan officer who is now working for a loan-modification company. This individual, who helped talk his clients into risky loan products that often landed them ...

Some mortgage villains faring quite well

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 20, 2009

... life. Unfortunately, we don't always get justice. And this seems to be especially true in the mortgage-lending business. It's clear that a big reason for the country's current economic ...