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  • Halftime Pt. 2: BP Leaks Its Way to a New Low

    With BP shares near a 10-year low, is it worth the price as a lottery ticket?

  • Timothy Geithner
    Europe Must Follow Through on Rescue: Geithner

    The US recovery will continue, despite financial turmoil in Europe, as long the governments on the continent follow through on their promised rescue package, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told CNBC Thursday.

  • Cramer: US Needs to Refinance to Prevent Liquidity Crisis

    Why he thinks selling $2 trillion worth of 30-year Treasuries would help.

  • Treasury Seal
    Treasury 5-Year Auction, B: Santelli

    Wednesday’s $40 billion 5-year Treasury note auction deserves a solid B.

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    Treasury Gets $6.2 Billion From Citigroup Share Sale

    The Treasury Department said Wednesday it raised $6.2 billion from the sale of 1.5 billion shares of Citigroup stock it received as part of the government's rescue of the bank.

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    Qatar Eyes Treasury's Citi Stock

    The Qatar Investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund, has expressed interest in buying part of the U.S. Treasury's stake in Citigroup, potentially boosting efforts to sell the shares amid the global rout in banking stocks, the FT reports citing people familiar with the matter .

  • NY Stock Exchange Traders
    100% Protected Isn't as Safe as It Sounds

    Brokers selling complex securities that they once contended were safe and sound have saddled individual investors with billions in losses since the credit bubble burst. Remember auction-rate securities? Those were peddled to investors as just as good as cash — until they no longer were after that market seized up in 2008. The NYT reports.

  • Financial Crisis Bailout
    Treasury's Bailout Estimate Assumes Higher Stock Prices

    The Treasury Department indicated Friday it expects taxpayers will lose billions less from the financial bailouts than earlier estimated. The problem is, its revised forecast assumes Treasury's shares of bailed-out companies are gaining value despite this week's plunge in stock prices.

  • Timothy Geithner
    Europe 'Has the Capacity' to Manage Debt Crisis: Geithner

    Europe can survive the current economic crisis if its leaders make good on commitments to turn their economies around, Treasury Secretary Geithner told CNBC Wednesday.

  • Jon Corzine
    Corzine Starting Small in Bid for Redemption

    For Jon S. Corzine, it has come to this: a bare Manhattan office still littered with mementos from the previous occupant, at a company few outside Wall Street have heard of.

  • EU Bailout Fund Eases Worries About US: Fed's Plosser

    Europe's $1 trillion bailout fund might alleviate some of concerns that its debt problems could spread to the US, Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser told CNBC Monday

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    Ignoring the Elephant in the Bailout

    If you blinked, you might have missed the ugly first-quarter report last week from Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giant that, along with its sister Fannie Mae, soldiers on as one of the financial world’s biggest wards of the state.

  • How Two Fund Managers Avoided Heavy Losses Thursday

    Two fund managers told CNBC Friday that they lost less than 1 percent of net asset value, despite Thursday's 347-point plunge by the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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    Questions Remain on What Caused Market Plunge

    The big question of what went wrong when the markets plunged Thursday is still up in the air.

  • United States Federal Reserve
    A Battle Royale is Brewing at the Fed

    President Obama has appointed three new doves to the Federal Reserve Board, thereby taking command of the nation’s central bank.

  • Timothy Geithner
    Geithner Slams Loan Servicers

    I have to say I'm getting a little tired of it. The servicers slam the Treasury and the Treasury slams the servicers and more and more homes move to foreclosure as the housing recovery spits and sputters.

  • United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
    Geithner Vows Crackdown on US Mortgage Servicers

    US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday slammed mortgage service companies for failing to do enough to help Americans avoid losing their homes and promised to crack down on shoddy practices.

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    Tony Fratto: You Say You Want A Resolution?

    Every now and then an idea takes hold that is, conceptually, so elegant and alluring as to be nearly irresistible. Resolution authority – like the call of the Sirens – has enchanted every US official who was in a decision-making capacity during the financial crisis.

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    More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship

    Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Americans are taking the weighty step of renouncing their citizenship. The New York Times explains.

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    A Difficult Path in Goldman Case

    In accusing Goldman Sachs of defrauding investors, regulators are not only taking aim at a company with deep pockets and a will to fight - they are also pursuing an unusual claim that could be difficult to prove in court, legal experts said.  The New York Times explains.