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By Marc Chandler ECB President Trichet is signaling a rate hike and the market debate seems to be between April and May. While the monetary setting may be too easy for Germany, the peripheral countries, where the debt crisis has been…

The latest financial news from around the web. Articles to note on Allied Irish's nationalisation and the Fed's attempts to block new foreclosure regulations. On behavioral finance, we have a good link from Robin Hanson's blog on the…

Today's best financial news links from around the web. Featured posts are on Chinese inflation and suits against banks and bank agents for allegedly breaking into homes to wrongfully evict homeowners. We also have the Saxo Bank outrageous…

Today's news features a great article on China's 1911 revolution plus, BMO's US regional bank buy and more on the Euro crisis.

Today's financial news with stories on Europe's sovereign debt crisis, state budgets, and recent banking-related stories plus much more.

We have just a few stories today from around the web. Three come from Europe on Irish collateral at the ECB, Spainsh bank restructuring in Europe, and Spanish over-buildings effects on Spanish banks. The U.S. story is about Ron Paul and his…

Below is what happened in financial news yesterday as reported at Credit Writedowns and from other places across the web. Credit Writedowns Mervyn King: "Systemic Insolvency Is Now The Problem" I want to take you through…

I am always interested in stories about Yahoo! since I worked there during its Internet hey day. Unfortunately, the place is falling apart. The latest I have heard is of a 5% staff cut, combined with employee buyouts and the sunsetting of…

In this post are links to the latest important financial news stories on the web. I am going to try and go about the links a bit differently in the future. Rather than just list the links here, I intend to expand on some of the stories…

We have some good links on the political economy today which highlight continuing efforts to frame the credit crisis in a bank-favourable light. I recommend reading them because they reinforce my view that the body politic in the US is…