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Fidelity National Plans Debt as Sales Drop to Six-Week Low: New Bond Alert
Fidelity National Information plans to sell $1.2 billion of senior notes to help repurchase stock and to repay debt used to buy Metavante Technologies Inc., a technology products provider, the Jacksonville, Florida-based company said yesterday in a statement distributed by Business Wire.
2010-07-07 05:20:47 -
Stock futures fall, point to lower opening
NEW YORKFinancial shares are pulling the stock market higher after a second-quarter profit forecast from State Street Corp.
2010-07-07 07:23:56 -
Stocks extend gains after financial stocks climb
FILE - In this file photo taken June 25, 2010, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange . A day after the Dow Jones industrial average broke a seven-day losing streak, stocks are set to resume that slide.(AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
2010-07-07 07:38:00 -
Regional economist foresees slowdown in second half
Clark County is among the two-thirds of U.S. counties that saw economic improvement in May, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. But one local economist warns not to put too much stock in the numbers. @NormalParagraphStyle:I would say and most economists would agree things have been getting better in first half of the year, said Scott Bailey, regional economist with the ...
2010-07-07 08:06:34 -
Stocks extend gains after financial stocks climb
Stocks climb as investors try to string together back-to-back winning days; Banks lead advance
2010-07-07 09:57:32 -
Stocks up as financial stocks climb
In midmorning trading, Dow rose 107.25 to 9,850.87.
2010-07-07 10:21:18 -
Sheriff sales pile up in York County
The number of York County homes sold at sheriff sale is increasing as fallout from the national mortgage crisis continues to ripple through the area.
2010-07-07 10:31:48 -
Peter Foster: An implausible case for more intrusive politics
Anatole Kaletsky's new book, Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the aftermath of Crisis, is a paean to statist mysticism and postmodern gobbledygook
2010-07-07 11:17:20 -
BofA cuts Fed rate, Treasury yield forecasts
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch now sees the Federal Reserve keeping its target interest rate at current levels until March 2012, delaying its forecast from expectations of a rate hike in August 2011. The firm cut its U.S. economic growth forecasts for 2011 and 2011, citing weaker job growth and a slowdown in household consumption, new homes and inventories. Yields on 10 ...
2010-07-07 11:44:12 -
Wealth managers target high-end mortgages
As wealthy clients move assets from cash into property, banks are out to generate business by bolstering their mortgage lending.
2010-07-07 12:14:47 -
Good ship Gillard keen to seize poll position
Julia Gillard is balancing on an economic tightrope when it comes to the looming election.
2010-07-07 12:19:20 -
Stocks extend gains after financial stocks climb
(AP:NEW YORK) Financial shares pulled the stock market higher Wednesday after State Street Corp.'s second-quarter profit forecast topped analysts' expectations.
2010-07-07 12:46:52 -
Bankrupt inns to house Victoria's homeless
The City of Victoria has bought two bankrupt hotels for more than $5 million with the aim of converting them into supportive housing for homeless people and families.
2010-07-07 12:49:23 -
Marshall Auerback: The Self-inflicted Insanity of American Unemployment
News that the unemployment rate has fallen to a "mere" 9.5% seems to suggest an improvement in our dire economic prospects. The reality, however, is...
2010-07-07 01:15:32 -
WRAPUP 1-Poll points to China slowdown as policy picture blurs
* Reuters poll points to 10.5 pct China y/y GDP growth in Q2
2010-07-07 04:19:38