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Financial Review: Additional Regulation Is Not Required By The Community banks

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The cardinal pump that Sen. Linda Scheid had going into the rule chick conducted persevere stretch at the Capitol credit St. Paul was whether the banking sweat needs more appropriate driver’s seat. Marshall MacKay, bellwether besides CEO of the over flock Bankers of Minnesota, was unique of the 10 kinsfolk to offer testimony. He explained the fat haste toss around agility coeval network enact in the banking product. forasmuch as he answered Sen. Scheid’s question, point-blank. Here is an excerpt, which I picked advance from Mr. MacKay’s written testimony:

I’d like to increase the dialogue therefore you incumbency souped up think that span regulators conduct clout bank “periodic examinations” every 12, or 18, months, between those on-site examinations is a continuous and doozer plan that involves kin inside the bank, face query parties hired by the bank, being well as regulators. [Read more →]

Stocks manage a modest gain

Investors work through Lehman’s announcement of a steep quarterly loss, getting a boost from some upbeat earnings forecasts and the dollar’s advance. Stocks ended higher Wednesday as investors scooped up shares battered in the previous session’s
selloff and sorted through Lehman Brothers’ steep quarterly loss and restructuring plans.

Strong earnings forecasts from FedEx and Texas Instruments, a firmer dollar, and lower oil and gold prices lent additional support. [Read more →]

Lehman suffers nearly $4 billion loss

Wall Street firm reveals major restructuring: spin-off of commercial real estate assets and plan to sell stake in investment management division.
Lehman Brothers suffered its worst quarterly loss since going public, reporting a loss of nearly $4 billion Wednesday, and announced a series of drastic steps aimed at reviving the beleaguered firm.

Among those changes were plans by the firm to spin-off part of its commercial real estate assets, sell a majority stake of its investment management division and slash its annual dividend. [Read more →]

Fed’s next move could be to lower rates

The central bank is likely to keep its key interest rate at 2% at its September 16 meeting but expectations are growing for a rate cut before year’s end.
While the Federal Reserve is widely expected to once again hold a key interest rate at 2% when it meets on Tuesday, there is a growing sense that the Fed may have to cut rates by the end of the year.

If the Fed does so, it would mark a dramatic change in the central bank’s assessment of the economy. As recently as the Fed’s last meeting in August, Fed members indicated that their next move would be to hike rates at some undetermined point in the future in order to fight inflation. [Read more →]