Saturday, October 9, 2010

Weekly Financial Recap



Foreclosure Follies: Weekly Financial Recap
TheStreet.com
By Laurie Kulikowski 10/09/10 - 08:12 AM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Pressure mounted for lenders to halt foreclosures this week as state officials look into the latest home loan scandal, so-called robosigning of foreclosure documents. ...
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George Soros warns China of global 'currency war'
Telegraph.co.uk
George Soros has warned that a global "currency war" pitting China versus the rest of the world could lead to the collapse of the world economy. By Rupert Neate Mr Soros, the hedge fund manager best known as the man who broke the Bank of England" after ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
U.S. stocks rally; Dow closes above 11000
MarketWatch
By MarketWatch US stocks rally Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ending above 11000 for the first time since early May, after the prospect of further action by the Federal Reserve overshadowed a grim jobs report. See full story. ...
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Betting the Bottom Dollar
Barron's
By ANNA RAFF | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR Commodity prices are still on the rise, but they may yet fall prey to the currency-appreciation wars. COMMODITY PRICES HAVE been getting a nice lift from all the speculation about quantitative easing—or money ...
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Constellation Halts `Unworkable' US Loan on Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant
Bloomberg
By Catherine Airlie - Sat Oct 09 13:37:22 GMT 2010 Constellation Energy Group Inc. has told the US Department of Energy it cannot proceed with the loan guarantee application for UniStar Nuclear Energy LLC's Calvert Cliffs 3 nuclear energy facility ...
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