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CFTC sheds light on real-time reporting of swaps

Wall Street will be required to report complex swap trades in real time under a final rule the U.S. futures regulator approved on Tuesday, moving to lift the veil on the murky $700 trillion market, but the agency delayed a decision on block trades until next year.
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Jump in housing starts points to recovery

Housing starts and building permits jumped to a 1-1/2 year high in November as demand for rental apartments rose, suggesting the housing market was entering a tentative recovery.
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2011's Top Quote: 'We Are The 99 Percent'

Fred Shapiro, a Yale Law School librarian and well-known authority on quotations, just released his sixth-annual list of the most memorable quotations of the year. The top three quotes all deal with statements made by people protesting the income disparity in the U.S. The Occupy Wall Street protesters’ slogan --“We are the 99 percent” – was the list's top quote.
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Honda sees U.S. sales rebound of 23 percent

Honda Motor Co <7267.T> expects U.S. sales to jump by 23 percent in 2012 as dealer inventories return to normal levels and the Japanese automaker makes up for lost ground against rivals, executives said.
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Fed Loads Up Balance Sheets, Begins Europe Bailout On Same Week It Promises Not To: Data

Last week Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke told federal lawmakers that no bailout of Europe was forthcoming and ended a monthly meeting of the central bank’s top decision-making body by pointedly rejecting a new round of quantitative easing. Data released by the Fed reveals that, at least partially, the organization spent the week engaging in exactly those actions.
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Gold, Silver Surge on Housing Data

Gold prices rose Tuesday with other commodities and global equities on unexpected signs the U.S. housing market is turning around and continued improvement in the Eurozone.
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Wall Street jumps 2 percent in broad rally

Stocks surged more than 2 percent on Tuesday as positive economic data at home and abroad cheered investors after some recent declines, though low volume was seen as exaggerating the market impact.
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Fed releases bank capital, liquidity proposals

The Federal Reserve proposed on Tuesday new capital and liquidity rules for the largest banks that would roll out in two phases and not likely go further than international standards.
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BlackBerry's U.S. business shrank further in Q3

Research In Motion's sales in the United States fell for a fifth straight quarter in the third quarter even as the BlackBerry maker's overall revenue jumped by $1 billion from a year earlier, a regulatory filing released on Tuesday showed.
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Wall Street extends gains, Nasdaq up 3 percent

Stocks extended gains on Tuesday, with the Nasdaq rising 3 percent as investors latched onto signs of easing stress in Europe's bond markets as well as positive economic data at home and abroad.
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10 Bearish Predictions for Investors in 2012

At a time of daily stock-market seizures, weekly bank and sovereign debt downgrades and monthly central bank interventions, most people are seeing the glass half empty, and have forecasted bearish -- if not downright abysmal -- market conditions for next year. A look at some of the more salient predictions.

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