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Liborgate: Subpeonas hit big guns on Wall street

After the Europeans who were asked to present testimony including Deutsche Bank, HSBC and RBS (royal Bank of Scotland) a month back, JP Morgan and more from Barclays were presented subpoenas by US regulators CIti and UBS received subpoenas earlier.

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US Morning Report: It is the Economy, Mr Bernanke!

The moderate recovery underway in the data seems to wax and wane according to its distance from a scheduled Fed meeting with bad new home sales last week ignored as the Beige Book and now the Personal Income shows a

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US Economy: Bernanke’s Testimony at the Senate Banking Committee Day 1: No QE3 right now.

Read my Lips. We are the US regulator. We cannot regulate LIBOR which is run by the British. A flabbergasted Ben Bernanke would have probably used those words at home or at his favorite College when delivering a lecture on

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Bank Results Season: The Citi never burns out of profit (Citigroup reports Q2 2012)

Citi upgrades to B3T1C of 7.9% The latest acronym in town avoids the mouthful Basel III Tier I Capital requirement that has unleashed an unending wave of deleveraging in Europe but seems to have carried along global and US only

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US Morning Report: Depressed Prices, Jobless claims makes news again

Import Prices are now down 2.7% on year after they first breached the zero line in May ever so slightly. Export prices are similarly depressed by 2.1% on year. However on the back of higher consumer credit offtake in May the first

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Global Mid-Day report: FOMC minutes, London close downward trigger

Equities and Commodities are likely to continue reacting sharply in US markets after the minutes from the June 19,20 meeting were released. The FOMC had shorn US growth projections to 2.3-2.5% in the long term at the meeting and though

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US Morning Report: Chinese want to buy Hawker Beechcraft, Bob Diamond does not want Barclays pay

Italy added 0.8% in Production on Month though still 6.9% down on year while France revised its may data downward to sho a net 3% degrowth on year and the British 1.2% growth in production on month could not stop

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The Thursday Fed Update: German Bunds giving US a run for the money Euro translates into hard times for the Dollar

Dollar gets harder ith every Euro tick going don but the Aussie and the Yuan are catching on and that is keeping ( the latter) the US dollar from impoding on itself as US Trade keeps on improving with China

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The Thursday Fed Update: That money machine called the U.S. of A.

The Fed will not be printing muchmpore money stock of course with US currency in ciruulation at $1.1T. Then there are the $1.6T in Treasuries the Fed will be using to lend to banks and extinguishing from its reserves to

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US Morning Report: EU Summit disposes of task at hand, Asia in the green

Global moves The Asia story led by India dominated Global markets in early trading and was significantly bolstered by various easing of conditions agreed at the summit by Angela Merkel. Germany suggested almost that all bailout funds be used interchangeably

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