AFP – Europe’s main stock markets dropped more than one percent nearing the half-way mark on Monday amid consolidation moves in the mining sector and further woes for ailing group British Airways.
FTSE 100 down ahead of Fed meeting (AFP)
AFP – The London stock market closed lower on Tuesday on lingering doubts about prospects for an economic rebound ahead of a meeting in Washington of the US Federal Reserve.
SEC charges Madoff-linked firm, adviser with fraud (AP)
AP – Federal regulators filed securities fraud charges Monday against a prominent California investment adviser and a New York brokerage firm said to be secretly controlled by Bernard Madoff, accusing them of funneling billions of dollars from investors into Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
European stocks claw back ground after big losses (AP)
AP – European stocks clawed back some ground Tuesday, with Wall Street also expected higher, after a heavy sell-off on Monday, when the World Bank warned that the global economic downturn would be deeper than previously predicted.
Kaplan Develops Solution To Meet New FINRA Regulations
Under the new regulation, firms are required to provide responses to the new disclosure questions for existing registered representatives by mid-November 2009.
Recession worries rattle world markets
Equities, commodities and emerging market currencies suffered hefty losses as profit-taking investors shifted to the perceived havens
What are investors waiting for? Consumers. (AP)
AP – Americans may have poured money back into stocks this year, but market watchers worry that they aren’t spending enough on other things ? like clothes, cars and computers.
Reuters – World stocks slipped on Monday while government bonds and the dollar rose as a decline in oil prices below $70 a barrel and caution ahead of this week’s data and Federal Reserve meeting weighed on risky assets.
Citi faces uncertainty after departure
Citigroup’s business in Asia-Pacific, the bank’s fastest-growing region, faces a period of uncertainty following the resignation of its top executive after just 15 months in the post
