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Volcker rule vote today?

…Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Comptroller of the Currency — were divided over how tough to…

Stocks are shaky

…production news. Today we read from Bloomberg. “The primary sentiment right now is cautious and nervous,” Michael James, a Los Angeles-based managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities Inc.,…

Ho hum or bizarre?

…their lending and trading. The theory is that banks that rely less on borrowing are more stablebecause they are getting more of their financing from shareholder funds, which do not…