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Thousands of financial professionals are hitting the labor market as Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) closes and other banks fold. Who’s going to profit from the million-man job hunt? Apparently it’s not Monster Worldwide (NASDAQ:MNST).
We’ve found a company that’s going to be up to their eyeballs in new business.
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"We can’t say we’re surprised. While workers at Lehman might feel somewhat aggrieved, it seems the Fed decided that AIG really was too big to fail." — John Stepek
Blogger’s note: So why would the Fed bailout AIG after leaving Lehman Brothers hanging only days earlier? The real reason, according to John Stepek of the [...]
Tags: $85 billion, aig, etf, Fed, federal reserve, insurance, interest rate, john Stepek, leh, Lehman Brothers, Moneyweek
With markets dropping everywhere, what should you do as an investor?
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): “The stock market is going to be bonkers today,” writes Purple Cow guru Seth Godin today. “And for most people, it won’t matter so much. Because most of us aren’t focused on flipping assets. We’re building value by creating [...]
Lehman Brothers Holdings (NYSE:LEH) is bankrupt, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MER) was sold off… as the mass extinction of U.S. investment banks continues, what should investors do?
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"Of the five big investment banks that were in operation at the outset of this year, The Bear Stearns Cos. has already failed and been taken over, and Lehman Brothers is trying to avoid a similar fate." — Martin Hutchinson
by Martin Hutchinson
Baltimore — (TFN): When Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LEH) announced a third-quarter [...]
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Lehman Bros Hldgs (NYSE:LEH-P) and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LEH) drop on hints that another big U.S. bank is on its way out
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): Owning shares in Lehman Bros Hldgs (NYSE:LEH-P) and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LEH) was almost as exciting as owning gold over the past two days. The [...]
“Most of Wall Street’s moneymaking machines have shut down. Mortgage-securitization activity has gone kaput, while IPO and M&A activities are sputtering. Even worse, Billions of dollars of future writedowns and losses are still buried inside Wall Street’s balance sheets.” — Dan Amoss
by Dan Amoss
Baltimore – (TFN): Since [...]