Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are stepping down at a time when investors wonder whether RIM has the ability to compete in the rapidly changing markets for smartphones.

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RIM’s Balsillie and Lazaridis Step Aside

A compromise seems to be at hand over how much of a loss investors should take on just over 200 billion euros in Greek government bonds.

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DealBook: Greece Inches Toward a Deal With Its Bondholders

U.S. Enrichment Corp ., which produces fuel for nuclear power plants, is having its own sort of meltdown. Disillusioned investors have wiped out 95 percent of the company’s market value since 2007. Standard & Poor’s has saddled it with a dismal CCC-plus credit rating. And USEC’s chief executive John Welch says that “clearly we’re coming to crunch time here.” Read full article > >

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‘Crunch time’ at troubled nuclear fuel plant

European Union countries will need to sell billions of dollars in bonds every week in 2012 to replace existing debt, and policymakers and investors are watching debt auctions for signs of weakness.

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DealBook: For Europe, Few Options in a Vicious Cycle of Debt

European Union countries will need to sell billions of dollars in bonds every week in 2012 to replace existing debt, and policymakers and investors are watching debt auctions for signs of weakness.

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DealBook: For Europe, Few Options in a Vicious Cycle of Debt

The Federal Reserve took another step in its gradual march toward greater openness by agreeing to disclose its board members’ expectations about future interest rates, according to newly released minutes of the Fed’s December meeting. The measure is designed to increase certainty and predictability about the Fed’s current policy of low interest rates — and thus encourage economic activity among investors and consumers. Read full article > >

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Federal Reserve will start disclosing officials’ quarterly projections

The new year has arrived, and so investors are inundated with all manner of lists: Best and worst stocks for 2012, forecasts of where the economy is going, favorite investments for the year and more. What’s an investor to do? You should start by ignoring those lists. Let’s conduct a little experiment to demonstrate why: Do a quick Google search for “where to invest in 2011.” I read through the first dozen or so. For the most part, the performance was pretty awful. Before the excuse-making starts — 2011 was an unusual year, the ECB/Fed intervened, etc. — let me clue you in to this fact: Forecasters are pretty awful every year. Read full article > >

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Investing in 2012: Get ahead of forecaster folly

ROME — Italy’s borrowing costs fell for a second day Thursday but the country’s new premier said his government has more to do before it convinces financial markets it can manage the heavy debts that have made it the focus of the eurozone crisis. Mario Monti said he was encouraged by the bond auctions at which the interest costs paid out by Italy to bond investors eased. He said his government of technocrats, in office for just a month and a half following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi, was preparing a package of measures to get the Italian economy moving again, including efforts to boost competition and liberalize the labor market. Read full article > >

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Italy’s Monti warns of ongoing market turbulence despite lower borrowing rates in auctions

Development zones in New York City have been drawn so that even projects in affluent areas can generate financing from foreign investors under a federal immigration program.

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New York Developers Take Advantage of Financing-for-Visas Program


Investors run for U.S. dollars, euro banks risk losses.

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Euro Crisis Stresses World Banks

LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron warned that Europe’s new fiscal pact, aimed at fixing the euro, faces significant political hurdles, while investors and ratings agencies said the deal was insufficient to fix the continent’s debt problems. Cameron, who was the only leader among the 27 European Union members to refuse last week to consider a plan to tighten budget controls, warned the deal could clash with existing EU rules and that it could take months of negotiations to sort the conflicts. Read full article > >

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New European pact to save the euro faces UK concerns, waning market confidence

Stocks rose modestly in Europe as officials gathered in Brussels for negotiations on resolving the euro crisis and investors ignored S.& P.’s warning of downgrading the European Union’s AAA credit rating.

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Critics say Moody’s Investors Service and other ratings agencies missed signs of trouble in Greece, now the center of the crisis in the euro zone.

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Ratings Firms Misread Signs of Greek Woes

European leaders will continue this week to slowly hammer out new structural measures to shore up the euro currency zone , but market confidence among investors already showed signs of crumbling late last week. One month after European leaders struck deals over a bailout fund and a debt restructuring for Greece , financial markets are again gripped with pessimism and impatiently looking for more. Read full article > >

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European debt crisis: Investors’ confidence shows signs of crumbling

NEW YORK — The worst week for the stock market in two months ended with a whimper in thin trading Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 4.8 percent this week, while the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 4.7 percent. Both had their worst weeks since Sept. 23. Major indexes wavered throughout Friday’s session, which was shortened because it’s the day after Thanksgiving. Worries about Europe’s debt crisis flared up again after Italy had to pay 7.8 percent to borrow for two years at a debt auction. It’s another sign that investors are increasingly hesitant to lend to European countries. Read full article > >

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Stocks fall in light trading session as Europe fears linger; Dow drops 4.8 percent for week