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WASHINGTON, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are proven leaders in growing the U.S. economy. But the lingering credit crunch is hurting their ability to grow and create jobs, hampering our economic recovery. In a new study, released by the TechAmerica Foundation, business expert Andrew Sherman lays out a model to overcome the credit crunch by tapping the idle cash reserves of big businesses, currently estimated at more than $2 trillion....
CHICAGO, June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE:TM), General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM), Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F), HYUNDAI MOTOR CO. (OTC:HYMLF) and Volkswagen AG (OTC:VLKAY). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101027/ZIRLOGO) Get...
LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Maria Boyazny, Founder and CEO of MB Global Partners, speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, predicted today that prices for many credit assets will be volatile for the next two years. "More negative news will continue to come from Europe during the next two years, and global financial institutions will persist with their necessary deleveraging. Many fiscal and monetary measures have already been spent, making...
New Research Shows U.S. Housing Finance System is More Complex than Other Countries but Offers More Opportunities for Consumers Data can inform housing policy in troubled housing markets such as Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Housing Commission held a public forum in Winter Park, Florida today to discuss the state's response to pressures on Florida's housing market, where foreclosures are nearly...
NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent widening in five-year credit default swap (CDS) spreads for systematically important financial institutions (SIFIs) and their sovereigns have resulted in record high costs for insuring against default risk, says a new S&P Capital IQ report published today. A copy of the report, The Increasing Cost of Insuring Against the Global Financial Crisis, written by S&P Capital IQ Solutions Architect Pavle Sabic, is available here....
LONDON, September 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Britain's top fund managers are supporting British manufacturing over and above any other sector and are only backing the safer high street banks shows Top Stocks [http://www.citywire.co.uk/top-stocks ], a new service from Citywire Money. [http://www.citywire.co.uk/money ] For the first time Top Stocks (citywire.co.uk/top-stocks) [http://www.citywire.co.uk/top-stocks ] gives investors access to the shares most favoured by the...
NEW YORK, July 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- American consumers are facing the double whammy of still feeling the effects of recession even as rising costs fuel inflationary worries. They are not alone in the world, though, according to GfK Roper Consulting's 2011 Mood of the World® Report, which is based on a global survey of more than 32,000 consumers, ages 15 and older in 25 countries. Consumers' top concerns, both globally and in the US, are economic ones, followed by key social and other...
FORT LEE, N.J., May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Inflation Association - http://inflation.us - would like to congratulate its members for helping spread the word during the past week about America's college tuition bubble and how college education is the largest scam in U.S. history. After NIA's release of "College Conspiracy" on Saturday, May 14th, over 340,000 people have watched the documentary in its first six days of release, with many thousands of Americans tweeting about...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lending Club (http://www.lendingclub.com), the leading platform for investing in and obtaining personal loans, today announced that Pool Corporation (NASDAQ/GMS: POOL) will invest up to $2 million in personal loans through Lending Club during 2011 to spur pool and spa sales growth. The decline in the housing market over the past few years has made home equity lines of credit difficult, if not impossible, to obtain, even for borrowers with...
BURLINGTON, Mass., March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Auto finance is one of the largest lending markets in the U.S., second only to mortgages. Auto loans and leases make up about $850 billion in American debt, more than the credit card industry. Even student loans are only about half the size of auto finance.[1] MoneyAisle.com is the first fully-automated online auction marketplace for consumers to get among the lowest rates on auto loans and refinancing, helping borrowers across the full...
