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Moody"s rebaja la calificación de cuatro bancos y la CECA

Madrid, (EFECOM)Moody»s ha rebajado hoy la calificación de la deuda a largo plazo y los depósitos de cinco bancos españoles, incluida la Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), informó la entidad.
La recalificación a la baja, de …

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Informe : Libro Beige de la FED (Reserva Federal U.S.A) Octubre

By Greg Robb, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)
The U.S. economy continues along about the same modest pace as seen in August, according to a report Wednesday summarizing information from contacts used by the Federal Reserve to measure the strength…

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Italian officials seize €246 mln from UniCredit

NEW YORK (MarketWatch)
Italy’s UniCredit said Wednesday that the Italian tax police on Tuesday seized 246 million euros ($338.4 million) of the bank’s funds deposited with the Bank of Italy.
The seizure is related to an investigation into a serie…

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U.S. stocks end lower, losing gains on worries about economy and euro zone; Apple’s off 6%

 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)
U.S. stocks dropped Wednesday, piling up losses in the final hours of trading, on conflicting signs from Europe about a potentially bigger plan to stave off a messy sovereign default; disappointing earnings from heavyw…

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Sarkozy flies to Germany for euro talks: reports

FRANKFURT (MarketWatch)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will fly to Frankfurt later Wednesday to meet with outgoing European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagar…

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Citigroup to pay $285 million to settle SEC charge

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)
Citigroup will pay $285 million to settle charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it misled investors about a collateralized debt obligation tied to the housing market.
The CDO defaulted within mont…

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SEC: Agency won’t approve ETFs using swaps

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)
The nation’s top watchdog for the multi-trillion dollar asset management industry said Wednesday the agency has no plans to consider approving any new Exchange-Traded-Funds seeking to make «significant» use of derivatives until…

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Report U.S.A Deflationary : The Core Rate of Inflation up 0.1% in September

Consumer prices rose again in September as Americans paid more for gasoline and a wide variety of groceries, the government reported Wednesday
The Labor Department said the consumer price index rose a seasonally adjusted 0.3% last month, pushing the i…

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Social Security benefits to increase 3.6% in 2012

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)
Americans who receive Social Security will get a 3.6% increase in benefits in 2012, the first hike in three years.
Increases in benefits are determined by the Labor Department’s so-called CPI-W inflation gauge during the U.S. …

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Bernanke: crisis demostró la importancia de mantener estabilidad financiera

Washington, (EFECOM)
El presidente de la Reserva Federal (Fed) estadounidense, Ben Bernanke, afirmó hoy que la reciente crisis financiera ha demostrado que los bancos centrales deben prestar tanta atención a la estabilidad de precios como a la e…