Daylight saving time, when clocks are set forward an hour, begins on Sunday, March 13, at 2 a.m. For many people, the additional hour of sunlight means a chance to work in the garden, fire up the grill for dinner and not have t…
The Christian season of repentance, Lent, is underway. And with the season comes an increased demand for seafood — as traditional followers of Lent avoid meat on Fridays. That demand has caused some restaurants to alter their …
Bank of America is reportedly offering legislators a special hot line with the bank, to help with homeowner’s mortgage modification. But no one else can have access to the number, not even the people who most need it.
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Most Wall Street experts are far better equipped to analyze a corporate risk over a political threat. But today, it’s political unrest in the Middle East and beyond that’s driving world markets. So we asked Ian Bremmer, president of political risk consultancy The Eurasia Group, to break down the major developments and what investors should expect.
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Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer Maps Out the Investing Pitfalls of Political Unrest originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:45:00.
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Almost as soon as regulators proposed a settlement for the mortgage mess that would require banks to obey the law, the banks’ Republican allies began trying to weaken it through obfuscation and confusion. Read on for some plain…