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• Oil falls below $83 on global slowdown fears
A credit crisis that began last year in U.S. sub-prime mortgages has spread across the globe, forcing governments to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out banks, brokerages and insurance companies, and fears are growing it will sink the ...
• Oil rises in Asia as Ike bears down on Texas coast
A credit crisis that began last year in U.S. sub-prime mortgages has spread across the globe, forcing governments to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out banks, brokerages and insurance companies. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index ...
• Buffett’s HomeServices plans $200M expansion
The nation’s second-largest real estate brokerage plans to spend $200 million over the next couple of years paying 20 to 25 cents on the dollar for distressed brokerages around the country. That capital, which will triple the company’s market ...
• Feeling Wall St.'s pain, Manila to Paris
The banks, the brokerages, that's what I'm looking at," since they are his main clients, he said. He's watching U.S. companies, multinationals — and Russian firms. Moscow's financial markets and booming companies have swooned in recent weeks, partly ...
• Southwest makes a push for business travelers
Laura Wright said Southwest, which enters fuel-hedging transactions with financial-services firms as counterparties, has no exposure to bankrupt Lehman Brothers and only a small amount to brokerages that don't have a commercial banking side. Wright ...