Latest articles by Renuka Rayasam
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New Rules for Brokers May Help Investors
Business Costs & Regulation But investors will pay a price for added protection. Trading fees are likely to rise.
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Financial Crisis Probe Misses Mark
Business Costs & Regulation Politicians and others are stuck in the blame game, rather than working to fix fix root causes
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Momentum Mounts For Financial Overhaul
Politics Congress will remake the regulatory structure in an attempt to discourage excessive risk and protect consumers.
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New Credit Card Rules Won’t Apply to Business Cards
Politics Congress worries about choking off credit to small businesses, so it won’t extend limits on penalty fees and other consumer protections to business card holders.
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A Bipartisan Deal on Banking Reform?
Politics Dodd's new bill includes GOP ideas, and he's ready to embrace more.
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New Rules May Make Money Market Funds Safer
investing But the trade-off -- low interest rates -- won’t make them popular with investors.
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Credit Freeze Will Thaw in 2010
business Banks will open their purse strings for the most worthy borrowers.
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Government Moves to Rein in Debt Collectors
Business Costs & Regulation Mistakes and harassment are cited as reasons for closer scrutiny from regulators. New laws could be next.
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No More Instant Credit at the Cash Register?
credit & debt New Federal Reserve rules will make it harder for retailers to extend credit on the spot.
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Congress to Bolster Small Business
business On tap: Increased SBA loan limits and more help with selling abroad.
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Banks : This Week's Whipping Boys
Politics Congress, the White House and regulators shift blame to Wall Street.
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Beginning of the End For Economic Rescue
Business Costs & Regulation Federal regulators will find getting out is much trickier than jumping in.
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One Hurdle Scaled in Bank Reg Effort
Politics But the hard bargaining over details is yet to come.
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Uncle Sam, Tech Venture Capitalist
Politics As private investment slows, the Obama administration is looking to invest in early stage technology companies.
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Feds to Step up Insurance Oversight
Business Costs & Regulation First step: a new federal office. The option of a federal charter for insurers -- long regulated by the states -- could follow.
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Shareholders Will Flex Some Muscle in Proxy Season
Business Costs & Regulation The SEC is giving investors a lot more power, and they’re sure to use it.
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Dodd Bucks White House on Financial Regulations
Business Costs & Regulation The Senate Banking chairman has a more radical idea for restructuring the nation’s banking and insurance industries.
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Reforming the Credit Rating Agencies
Business Costs & Regulation Unwinding the credit agencies' conflicts of interest means undoing decades-old habits
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Congress Eyes Crackdown on Reverse Mortgages
Business Costs & Regulation Buyers should always beware, but seniors looking at reverse mortgages will soon get a little help from Uncle Sam, too.
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The Art of Being Too Big to Fail
Business Costs & Regulation Try defining what makes a financial firm "too big to fail" and you come up with a lot of explanations that sound like the classic definition of obscenity.
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The Sisyphean Housing Problem
Economic Forecasts The administration realizes it'll take more than carrots to get banks to rewrite mortgages for homeowners at risk of foreclosure.
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Did Fannie Mae Cause The Economic Mess?
Politics The Humpty Dumpty economy has fallen off a wall, and while the government scrambles to put the pieces back together again, lawmakers are also furiously examining the scene of the crime to see who shoved him down in the first place.
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Economic Team Banking on Confidence
Politics The stimulus spigot is opening, the plan to save some homes from foreclosure is in place and the proposal to salvage financial system is nearly so.
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Geithner, Summers in Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine
Politics It may be award season in Hollywood, but in Washington one duo is reprising their starring roles with just as much fanfare.
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