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  • Park Avenue Bank becomes 28th failure of 2010

    New York City's Park Avenue Bank became the 28th bank failure of 2010 on Friday, according to the...  

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  • Wall Street balks at Dodd's financial reform bill

    Senator Chris Dodd’s attempt to push through a financial reform bill is already starting to...  

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  • Time magazine loses No. 2 editor

    A rising star at Time magazine has resigned to pursue outside writing activities. Romesh Ratnesar...  

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  • Bottled water files lawsuit against filtered water

    It's the battle of the bottle. Yesterday, the International Bottled Water Association filed a...  

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  • Tom Hudson’s new fund earns 3 percent in January

    Tom Hudson, a swashbuckling trader known for his biting attacks on companies as founder of the now...  

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Real Estate Blog

  • This week's calendar: March 11 to 17

    Thursday, March 11 Urban Land Institute Panel This panel will address the current status of...  

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  • Brokers on the TV

      Have you ever watched “The Hills” and thought to yourself, “Gee, I really enjoy the inherent...  

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  • Brooklyn Bridge Park to open soon... ish!

    With the city and state nearing an agreement on the status of Brooklyn Bridge Park, we got in...  

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  • The weekly wrap-up, March 5

    This week we learned that… … An inch of Detroit sounds like just about the amount we’d be into...  

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  • Air to ground

    Matthew Daimler, founder of popular travel site Seatguru.com , knows his way around an airplane....  

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Lower credit scores cost New Yorkers $1,400 a year

Lower credit scores cost New Yorkers $1,400 a year

New Yorkers are getting kicked while they are down. The Great Recession has pushed the credit scores of Big Apple denizens down dramatically -- which has pumped up how much we are paying to borrow money for mortgages, for auto loans or...  Read Full Story

Latest Business News

  • Jets look to run $$ back play

    Six weeks after their season ended, one game short of the Super Bowl, Woody Johnson's New York Jets appear close to yet another victory. The team...   4:40 AM

  • Meltdown movie magic

    Meltdown movie magic

    While Washington still appears to hate Wall Street, Hollywood is starting to flirt with the idea that the crash-and-burn intrigue of Ponzi schemes, billion-dollar bets against the housing market and bank failures will create box-office magic....   4:40 AM

  • This bank really does God's work

    There's at least one bank in the New York metropolitan area that's doing God's work -- and no, we're not talking about Goldman Sachs. Atlantic...   4:40 AM

  • NY's layoffs get longer

    The amount of time unemployed New Yorkers have spent out of work has ballooned 44 percent since the beginning of the recession, statistics show. In...   4:40 AM

  • Apple soaring

    Shares of Apple surged 3.5 percent last week -- to an all-time high -- as the company geared up for taking pre-orders on its much-anticipated iPad...   4:40 AM

  • Dimon's downer

    Dimon's downer

    Jamie Dimon isn't getting as big of a gift as he had hoped. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who turns 54 today, may see his bank reap far less than the $10 billion it stood to gain from its 2008 acquisition of WaMu. As a result of a settlement,...  

  • Sulzberger pinches double the pay

    Sulzberger pinches double the pay

    Top executives at the beleaguered New York Times Company reaped hefty rewards last year, with Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger more than doubling his total compensation to $6 million. CEO Janet Robinson got even more, reaping $6.3 million, a...  

  • 'Gate slams on Icahn

    'Gate slams on Icahn

    Carl Icahn running a movie studio -- oh, the horror! That is essentially what Lionsgate, home to torture porn movies like "Saw" as well as Academy Award winners "Precious" and "The Cove," told shareholders yesterday in recommending that they...  

  • A big, fat EU $34B bailout

    European officials inched toward a bailout pact to ease the crisis that has engulfed debt-ridden Greece, at the end of a week that saw unrest in Athens...  

  • Buyers using more cash

    Consumers are shopping more, and for the first time in a decade they're using cash more than credit cards. Retail sales jumped by 0.3 percent in...  

  • Google is ripped by China

    China said Google Inc. would be "unfriendly and irresponsible" if it defies rules to censor online content, escalating a dispute between the government...  

  • Att'y: AIG unprepared

    American International Group was unprepared for the financial crisis that forced the insurer to accept a $182.3 billion bailout from the US government,...  

  • Obama has 3 Fed picks

    San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen is a leading contender to be nominated by President Barack Obama as vice chair of the central...  

  • KKR files to get listing on NYSE

    KKR & Co., the private-equity firm run by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, as it seeks a wider...  

  • Business briefs

    Tim talks Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pre dicted the US will re bound from the recession faster than other econo mies. Solo Raj...  

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