| WARNING ON DERIVATIVES: The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is calling anew for Congress to impose new oversight on financial derivatives. Mary Schapiro warns that allowing risky instruments like credit default swaps to continue unfett ... |
| French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are leading a proposal that calls for mandatory reporting of all derivatives trading in Europe as a way of clamping down on the type of speculation that has undermined the euro in r ... |
| WARNING ON DERIVATIVES: The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is calling anew for Congress to impose new oversight on financial derivatives. Mary Schapiro warns that allowing risky instruments like credit default swaps to continue unfett ... |
| WARNING ON DERIVATIVES: The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is calling anew for Congress to impose new oversight on financial derivatives. Mary Schapiro warns that allowing risky instruments like credit default swaps to continue unfett ... |
| Germany and France launched a proposal that calls for European trading in credit default swaps to be conducted on transparent exchanges and subjected to minimum holding periods. ... |
| European politicians and regulators could initiate a continent-wide ban on speculative trading of sovereign credit-default swaps tomorrow. Making it stick without the Americans won’t work. ... |
| WHO TESTIFIED: Christine Varney, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, and Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. ... |
| WHO TESTIFIED: Christine Varney, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, and Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. ... |
| Blaming speculators for sovereign-debt woes is misguided. Banning them would be worse ... |
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| TARGETING SWAPS: European countries want the U.S. to join a crackdown on credit default swaps, a type of financial derivative some blame for deepening Europe’s debt crisis. DISAGREEMENT: Regulators differ on how to police the trades. The European Com ... |
| TARGETING SWAPS: European countries want the U.S. to join a crackdown on credit default swaps, a type of financial derivative some blame for deepening Europe's debt crisis. ... |
| TARGETING SWAPS: European countries want the U.S. to join a crackdown on credit default swaps, a type of financial derivative some blame for deepening Europe's debt crisis. ... |
| Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said he sees a “new will” in the European Union to deal with fiscal crises in the region and indicated that EU leaders soon will draft a plan to increase oversight of credit- default swaps. ... |
| Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said he sees a “new will” in the European Union to deal with fiscal crises and indicated EU leaders soon will draft a plan to increase oversight of credit-default swaps. ... |