- FDIC's 20% Shorter `Merit' Examinations Preceded Failures of Three Banks At least three U.S. banks failed in the past year after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. deemed them healthy enough to qualify for a program that reduced the time examiners spent on reviews by at least 20 percent.
- Monsanto Faces `Distrust' as New Seeds Seek to Blunt DuPont's Sales Gains Monsanto Co., reeling from its first market-share losses to DuPont Co. in a decade, may be losing the confidence of some investors based on early results from the new modified seeds it’s counting on to beat competitors.
- Barclays, Bank of America, JPMorgan Vie to Manage Indian Share Offerings Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Plc and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are competing to sell shares for state-run companies in India as the government plans the biggest sell-off in at least five years.
- Spherix Sought Investments, `Information Edge' From Technology Executives When Richard Choo-Beng Lee and Ali Far set up Spherix Capital LLC last year, they counted on former bosses, Silicon Valley executives, Wall Street analysts and hedge-fund managers to be their first investors, according to the firm’s marketing documents.
- Dancing Bin Laden Doll, Terrorist-Headband Kitsch Chronicle Gaza's History “I can offer you a discount on the headbands,” said Tareq Abu Dayyeh, souvenir-store owner. “They’re just like the kind used by suicide bombers.”
- Biggest S&P 500 Gains Enhanced in '09 by Dollar Collapse: Chart of the Day Shares of U.S. companies getting a majority of their sales overseas are doing the best this year on speculation the dollar’s decline to an almost 15-month low is boosting earnings.
- DAX World-Beating Gain Since Wall Crumbled Led by Carl Zeiss Unity Exports In the 44 years that Carl Zeiss AG was forced to operate as two companies, separated by a Cold War dividing East and West Germany, the stock market in Europe’s biggest economy was about as exciting as sausage and sauerkraut.
- SAC Said to Tell Investors an Internal Review Found No Suspicious Trading SAC Capital Advisors LLC, the hedge- fund firm run by Steven Cohen, reviewed its buying and selling of stocks cited in the Galleon Group LLC insider-trading cases and found nothing suspicious, according to one of its investors.
Bloomberg Daily News 11th November 2009
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