Wall Street
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 23: A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange May 23, 2012 in New York City. After a volatile trading day where European stocks saw record lows, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped as much as 191 points but ended just off 6.66 points at 12496. 15.
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Belfort (DiCaprio), a Long Island penny stock broker who served 20 months in prison for participating in a massive 1990s securities fraud that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including mob infiltration. Belfort -- who lived large, owned a yacht that sank off the coast of Sardinia and became an alcoholic and drug addict.
Six months after the inauguration, we're sending every last infantryman, sailor, marine, airman, National Guardsman and Boy and Girl Scout into Iran. Plus, we'll be using polar bears to drill for oil -- in gay people ! Oh, and I'm sure I'll be so very much easier on Wall Street than the guy who used to run Bain Capital. He's all about the 99 percent.
The Republican special interests will stop at nothing until anonymous sources from Washington and Wall Street, flush with unlimited money, control the direction of North DakotaMore quotes »
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Fitch downgrades Suffolk credit to A+
Wall Street rating agency Wednesday downgraded Suffolk County's credit in the wake of a report that the county faces a $530 million budget shortfall while another agency is preparing to drop the county's rating, officials said.The downgrades likely will have 5/23/12 Read more »
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Stocks gain on Wall Street; Facebook falls
(AP) -- U.S. stocks are rising, shaking off their worst weekly performance since November, as investors latched on to a relatively optimistic report from economists.The Dow Jones industrial average is up 78 points to 12,448 after six days of losses. If it Read more »
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart
home, capping a busy week for the couple. Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California , San Francisco , on Monday, the Read more »
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Obama: Enforce tougher new banking rules
$2 billion loss has renewed calls by Democratic lawmakers for tougher rules on major financial institutions."Without Wall Street reform, we could have found ourselves with the taxpayers once again on the hook for Wall Street's mistakes," Obama said in his Read more »
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Letter: JP Morgan not a case for more rules
attacks against Wall Street work against the interests of all New York ers. It is estimated that taxed transactions from Wall Street contribute more than $25 billion annually to New York's $130-billion state budget. JPMorgan Chase employs thousands in the Read more »
