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Financial Daily Dose 3.18.2021 | Top Story: Fed Commits to Near-Zero Rates Despite Improving Economy

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The latest and greatest from Fed Chair Powell as the Fed’s March Open Markets Committee meeting wrapped yesterday, including a markets-pleasing assurance that better-than-expected economic growth wasn’t enough to push the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.10.2021 | Top Story: Tech Stocks Rebound, Lifting Tesla and Bitcoin

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Tech stocks roared back on Tuesday just a day after the Nasdaq hit correction territory, as “buy-the-dip” won out and led to a nearly-4% jump for the tech-heavy index ...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.21.2021 | Top Story: Wall Street Greets Biden Administration With Rally, Records on Stimulus Hopes

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Markets gave a warm welcome to the Biden administration on Wednesday, as strong tech performance and hopes of “large-scale economic stimulus” helped power an across-the-board rally that brought all three major U.S. indices...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.18.2020 | Top Story: Markets Gain on Stimulus Promise as Volatility Rules

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Volatility’s the name of the game these days on Wall Street. So what was down on Monday was up (a bit, at least) yesterday, although the basics of the situation haven’t improved at all....more

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Financial Markets and Funds - A New Captain at the Helm: The CFTC’s 16-Month Regulatory and Enforcement Agenda Under Chairman...

Katten recently hosted the "CFTC Regulatory and Enforcement Agenda" webinar. Financial Markets and Funds partners Kevin Foley, Christian Kemnitz and Carl Kennedy, and special counsel Gary DeWaal, discussed the potential CFTC...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.5.2019 | Top Story: HSBC Ousts CEO After 18 Months and Cuts 4,000 Jobs

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HSBC chief John Flint is out just 18 months after he assumed the role as head of the London-based bank, likely due to clashes with Board Chair Mark Tucker and the lender’s focus on expanding in China. HSBC also announced it...more

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We’ve already considered what the arrest of Huawei’s CFO will mean for the trade war between the U.S. and China. Now let’s dig in to what that move—and a host of recent country-level rejections of Huawei’s 5G...more

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A lot of the furor over Elon Musk’s recent “going private” tweets has centered on whether he actually had the financial backing needed to pull it off.  The Times sets aside that initial inquiry to explore the why and how,...more

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A surprisingly strong May US jobs report helped propel stocks up on Friday and end a tumultuous week on a high note....more

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NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange is looking to do the as-yet inconceivable: bring some order to cryptocurrencies. The plan, announced yesterday, is to launch a data feed that pull info from cryptocurrency exchanges around...more

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Blue Apron co-founder Matt Salzberg is following the Steve Ells path of stepping aside as CEO after recent struggles. In Blue Apron’s case, the company’s never really recovered from the rough patch that started not long after...more

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More trouble for Wells Fargo, this time involving its Forex operation, which an internal investigation revealed was plagued by routine overcharging of customers and other questionable practices by bankers engaged in a battle...more

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Time Inc. announced yesterday that it’s sold itself as part of a roughly $3 billion all-cash transaction to Meredith Corporation. Meredith, which publishes Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens, among other glossies, is...more

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Yahoo—via new parent Verizon Communications—has officially tripled its estimate of the number of accounts affected by its 2013 cyber hack, putting the total at a staggering 3 billion (aka, all of them)....more

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Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign: Changes in Store for SEC Enforcement under the Trump Administration

Even before President Trump’s nomination of Jay Clayton as the next Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”), signs have been appearing that changes are afoot within the Division of...more

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The Trump Administration: Change By Appointment

The election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States, along with the Republican control of the majority of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, will likely result in significant changes in...more

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SEC Shake-Up: President-Elect Trump Expected to Make Key Appointments

In the wake of the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, Mary Jo White has announced her intent to step down from her role as Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Chair White, the...more

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Wells is working hard to keep from having to produce four databases in ongoing toxic RMBS litigation with an investor class headed by Royal Park & BlackRock...more

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