Monetary Policy

HEADNOTE The seventh annual Community Bankers Symposium, co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), was held...

DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/590783/israel_real_estate) has announced the addition of the "Israel Real Estate Report Q1 2012" report to their offering. * In general, demand is growing, leading to high occupancy rates...

- Records Pre-Tax Charge of $61.0 Million ($.17 Per Share) - Full Year Net Income of $603.6 Million, Earnings Per Common Share of $2.47 - Full Year Pre-Tax Charges Total $91.6 Million ($.25...

PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTBI): ......

U.S. Treasuries Expected to Remain Volatile; Corporate and High Yield Issues Continue to Be An Attractive Option Due to Business Climate SAN FRANCISCO -- Bank of the West's Wealth Management Group today released...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco announced that Mary F. Kaiser, president of California Community Reinvestment Corporation, and Alfred A. Plamann, CEO of Unified Grocers, Inc., were reappointed as...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. (NASDAQ: OZRK) today announced that net income for 2011 was a record $101.3 million, a 58.3% increase from $64.0 million for 2010. The Company...

Phillips & Cohen Forever Disqualified from Lawsuits Involving IASIS FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- IASIS Healthcare[R] LLC ("IASIS") today announced it has won another important victory in a six-year qui tam lawsuit brought by former...

By Pearl Bantillo Stocks fall SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Shares of petrochemical companies in Asia tumbled on Monday on concerns over a worsening debt crisis in Europe after Standard & Poor's (S&P) lowered the credit ratings...

Jing Sun, Manager of the PSigma Global Equity Fund, is encouraged by a recent research trip to China... I have just returned from Hong Kong and Beijing following my annual research trip. I...

DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/48baa2/paper_money_collap) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown" to their...

CHICAGO -- Latin American metals and mining companies will maintain generally stable credit profiles in 2012 despite higher operating costs, inflation and possible Eurozone crisis effects, according to Fitch Ratings. The majority of...

NEW YORK -- Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) released its fourth quarter 2011 market commentary providing a review of the economy and the residential mortgage, commercial mortgage, asset-backed, corporate credit and treasury...

"Santorum, Huntsman, and Gingrich are employing leftist tactics because they can't run on their questionable records." LAKE JACKSON, Texas -- The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign released the following statement in response to...

HEADNOTE OCInsider Anaheim Mayor Torn Tait faces a daunting year (four words: underfunded public employee pensions.) But he's approaching it with his good-natured humor and a resolution to "move forward" the sometimes-strained relationship...

CLEVELAND -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland announced the following appointments and elections to its main office and branch boards of directors and to the Federal Advisory Council, effective January 1, 2012....

Bob Doll Sees a "Slow Growth" World; Europe Slips into Recession as US Stocks Post Double-Digit Gains Europe the Big "Swing Factor"; World Can Have an "Okay" Year If Europe Avoids Disaster US...

HEADNOTE Rwanda has once again led the continent in achieving a high rank in the World Bank's Doing Business 2012 report. This has been the result of several years of targeted reforms in...

HEADNOTE The Commonwealth is often derided as toothless and little more than a talk and pomp show during its annual summits, but as Richard Seymour discovered, it has been providing huge, if often...