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BusinessWeek
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News from Washington Mutual, H&R Block and IndyMac show the troubles keep piling up
Sometimes bad news comes in threes.
While the Federal Reserve cut interest rates Dec. 11 to ease the financial and housing crises, the market was confronted with yet..
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Bloomberg
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Washington Mutual Inc. got what it wanted in 2005: A revised bankruptcy code that no longer lets people walk away from credit card bills.
The largest U.S. savings and loan didn't count on a housing recession. The new bankruptcy laws are helping drive f..
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BusinessWeek
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Meet the champs of the 2007 Standard & Poor's/BusinessWeek Excellence in Fund Management Awards
There are more than 6,000 mutual funds, but, hey, how many can you name? Chances are the ones you know are offered by giants such as Fidelity, T. Rowe Price..
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BusinessWeek
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Word is the private equity cash infusion Washington Mutual is in line for comes with a condition: Cut the bank's risk in mortgage lending
Troubled thrift giant Washington Mutual (WM), once one of the biggest players in residential mortgages, will stop..
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BusinessWeek
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As recession looms, investors could do worse than to hedge their positions using bear-market mutual funds, which bet against upturns in the market
With the U.S. economy facing the likelihood of a recession, is it too late to jump on the bear-market ban..
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SF Gate
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Washington Mutual Inc., the nation's largest savings and loan, said Monday that problems in the mortgage and credit markets are forcing it to close offices, lay off more than 3,000 workers and set aside up to $1.6 billion for loan losses in its fourth qua..
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USA Today
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When mutual fund investor Eric Cohen discovered in September that Fidelity Investments owned a big stake in PetroChina, which has an oil project in war-torn Sudan, he and two friends started FidelityOutOfSudan.com. Their aim: to push the Boston-based fund..
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