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White House memo confuses Wall Street on fate of fiduciary rule

February 7, 2017 By publisher

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Conflicting signs from the White House have left brokerage firms and lobbyists unsure whether a controversial rule governing retirement advice will ever be put in place, but they are taking no chances and complying anyway. President Donald Trump's Friday memorandum ordered the Labor Department to review the so-called “fiduciary” rule, which requires brokers to put their clients' interests first when advising them about 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Trump's memo did not go as far as White House early guidance to reporters that the memo would ask the department to “defer implementation” of the rule.

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Warren Buffett: I bought $12 billion of stock after Trump won

February 1, 2017 By admin

Buffett revealed that he has bought $12 billion of stock for his company Berkshire Hathaway Inc since the Republican Donald Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election. In an interview with talk show host Charlie Rose that aired on Friday night, Buffett suggested that Berkshire's post-election stock purchases overall were even higher, reflecting stocks that his deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler bought.

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Wall Street scion Caspersen gets 4 years in prison for $38.5 million fraud

November 4, 2016 By publisher

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former Wall Street executive Andrew Caspersen was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison for engaging in what prosecutors say was a Ponzi-like scheme to defraud investors including family members and friends out of $38.5 million. Caspersen, who worked at a unit of investment banker Paul Taubman's PJT Partners Inc before his arrest in March, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan after pleading guilty to charges including securities fraud. Prosecutors sought up to 15-2/3 years in prison for the Princeton University and Harvard Law School graduate, who they said for 18 months shamelessly exploited his victims' trust.

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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf quits, replaced by Tim Sloan

October 13, 2016 By admin

By Dan Freed and Elizabeth Dilts NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co's veteran chairman and chief executive officer, John Stumpf, abruptly departed on Wednesday bowing to pressure over its sales tactics that has damaged the bank's reputation and put Wall Street under renewed scrutiny. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo said Stumpf, 63, was retiring and would be replaced as chief executive by President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Sloan, 56. The departure is a stunning reversal of fortune for Stumpf, who successfully navigated Wells through the financial crisis and built it into the world's most valuable bank with a focus on Main Street-style lending that was the envy of Wall Street.

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Wall Street rallies, led by Deutsche Bank, financials

September 30, 2016 By admin

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street rallied on Friday, lifted by a surge in Deutsche Bank shares and financial stocks after concerns eased about the health of the German bank. Deutsche Bank's U.S.-listed shares jumped 14 percent a day after sinking to a record low. French news agency AFP reported that Deutsche Bank was nearing a $5.4 billion settlement with U.S. officials over charges related to selling toxic mortgage bonds.

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Wall Street rallies on gradual Fed tightening, improving economy

December 16, 2015 By creative

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rallied on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced it is raising its key policy rate for the first time in nearly a decade in a sign of confidence in the U.S. economy.

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Wall Street veterans say rate-hike past is not prologue for markets

December 13, 2015 By creative

By Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK (Reuters) – It has only been six years since the U.S. stock market rout brought on by the financial crisis, but as far as Deena Katz's clients are concerned, that might as well be ancient history. “People have a thirty-second memory,” said Katz, 65, co-chairman at Evensky & Katz/Foldes Financial Wealth Management. “We're used to an instant turnaround.” That is particularly true when compared to investors who lived through longer periods of economic disaster, like the stagnant economy and rampant inflation of the 1970s or the Great Depression in the 1930s.

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