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Smaller Banks Will Do Better In This Environment: Lazard

As his peers in larger financial institutions are dealing with collapsing stock prices and laying off tens of thousands, the chief executive at boutique investment firm Lazard Ltd (NYSE:LAZ) said he believes smaller, more nimble investment banks like his are likely to benefit from trends developing on Wall Street.

British Financiers Getting Socked By UK Politicians, Central Bankers, Regulators

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In the past few months, but particularly in the last few days, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of England, roughly British equivalents to the American Treasury Secretary and Fed Chairman, have become the bane of the English banking system's existence. Other British government officials have also joined the fray.
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S&P Move Piles Pressure on Eurozone Assets

European stocks and the euro slid and most bond yields rose after the threat from rating agency Standard & Poor's to downgrade Eurozone countries en masse if no credible plan to solve the debt crisis emerges at a summit later this week.
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Raj Rajaratnam Begins 11-Year Prison Sentence

Raj Rajaratnam, 54, the founder of the Galleon Group and a hedge fund multimillionaire, began his 11-year prison sentence at a former military base, near the town of Ayer, Massachusetts.
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Lehman hearing may herald end of bankruptcy

Lehman Brothers Holdings Corp is about to take its last step toward exiting a more than three-year-long bankruptcy process, a move that should enable it to begin paying back investors next year.

Financial Stocks End Strange Day on Odd Note

A strange and winding day for the shares of major U.S. financial companies ended as oddly as it began, as shares of major U.S. banks seemed to brush off bad news on sovereign debt ratings that rattled the wider market and shares of five of the biggest financial institutions traded on the New York Stock Exchange ended the session on a sell imbalance.
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Rajaratnam begins 11-year insider trading sentence

Hedge fund multimillionaire Raj Rajaratnam began serving his 11-year prison sentence on Monday - the longest on record for insider trading - at a former military base near a small, leafy Massachusetts town.
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Bank Earnings Will Tank This Quarter: Wells Fargo

In a research note, banking industry analyst Matthew Burnell reduced fourth-quarter earnings estimates for JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), Citigroup (NYSE:C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS). Burnell reduced the earning estimates for JPMorgan and Citi by about 4 percent, but sounded a much more pessimistic note on Goldman and Morgan Stanley.
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Goldman Sachs veteran Forst to retire

Goldman Sachs Group's co-head of investment management, Edward Forst, will retire at the end of the year after 16 years with the company, according to a memo sent to employees on Friday.
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Goldman veteran Forst to retire

Goldman Sachs Group co-head of investment management, Edward Forst, will retire at the end of the year after 16 years with the firm, according to a bank memo sent Friday.
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RIM Caps Already Dismal Year with Another Profit Warning

Research in Motion capped an already dismal year with a steep profit warning on Friday, taking a huge charge to write down inventories on its languishing PlayBook tablet and sending its shares tumbling more than 8 percent.
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Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) is the Stock That Just Won't Die

It seemed like it was only yesterday (perhaps because it actually was only three days ago, on Tuesday), when the shares of the banking giant teetered precariously above the $5 mark, a few cents off the dreaded "4 handle." Many were predicting a catastrophic sell-off. Fast-forward to today and Bank of America is trading at $5.74 per share, a jump of 13.66 percent in slightly over 60 hours.
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Zynga Revised IPO Shows Goal to Raise $1 Billion

Zynga, the online gaming site partially owned by facebook, filed a revised IPO document Friday indicating plans to raise as much as $1 billion, which could be the most since Google’s 2004 offering.
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Senators Blast CFTC, Gensler for MF Global Mess

Republican lawmakers blasted the chairman of the U.S. futures regulator on Thursday for his agency's role in the collapse of MF Global and called his recusal from the investigation a way to "avoid the heat."

New York Landlords: 2011 Office Leasing Strong

Officials from major New York property owners said 2011 office leasing activity was strong, despite broader economic concerns, in a panel at the Goldman Sachs Commercial Real Estate Symposium in Lower Manhattan on Thursday.
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Oil Dips Below $100 Thursday in Choppy Trading

U.S. crude futures fell back on Thursday after government data showed that new filings for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week to their highest level since late October, a bad sign for oil demand. Oil traded down $1.01 to $99.41 per barrel on Thursday at mid-day.
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Europe's Markets Mixed Thursday at Mid-day

European shares fell in choppy trade on Thursday after data showed new U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week, with some investors booking profits after equities jumped 9 percent in the previous four sessions.
Olympus ex-CEO campaigns to oust board

Olympus ex-CEO campaigns to oust board

Woodford, who blew the whistle on accounting tricks at Olympus after he was sacked in October, said he was putting together a team of candidates for a new board and talking to shareholders about replacing the current leadership, hopefully by February.

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