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By Mike Taylor 12/07/10 5:11pm

Bankers Violently Want to Reward Shareholders

Wells Fargo and Bank of America’s CEOs are so eager to free themselves from their short regulatory leash and raise some gosh darn dividends already. Wells CEO John Stumpf made the sentiment abundantly clear. From The Wall Street Journal‘s report on today’s Goldman Sachs U.S. Financial Services Conference in New York:

“It’s high Read More

By Mike Taylor 11/05/10 11:59am

Wall Street

Morning Roundup: Business Grads, This Could Be Your Year!

More graduates of MBA programs are finding jobs this year, but fat paychecks and practical-joke-sized signing bonuses have yet to return to vogue. [BBW]
The Commodities Futures Trading Commission is not the wastrel federal institutio0n it once was, but it may still lack the resources to oversee the derivatives markets it Read More

By Mike Taylor 9/17/10 8:00pm

Payback

Bailed Out Banks Keep Welching On TARP Payments

The number of banks that for whatever reason decided they were better off not paying the government the money they owe under the Troubled Asset Relief Program rose to 115, up from 91 in May, TheStreet.com reports.

If a bank racks up six delinquent payments, the government gets to install two new directors Read More

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