Guest Opinion: GOP bill would slash jobless funds
Congress passed legislation in December to extend emergency unemployment insurance for an additional year because Americans were still reeling from a historic recession that had left almost 15 million people looking for work at the end of 2010.

Read more on The Oakland Press

Bank of America, Cisco, and Hewlett-Packard All Near 52-Week Lows
By teddycx. According to GuruFocus’s list of 52-week lows, Bank of America Corp. ( BAC ), Cisco Systems Inc. ( CSCO ), and Hewlett-Packard Co. ( HPQ ) are all traded close to their 52-Week Lows. Read more » »

Read more on Guru Focus

Europe Makes Rating Agencies Look Good
When the housing market crumbled, the agencies looked incompetent, conflict-ridden and craven, but as politicians criticize them over sovereign debt, they look noble.

Read more on New York Times

Economic Update
Two years after the margin lending crisis first struck, the process of cleaning up Nigeria’s banking sector continues.

Read more on Oxford Business Group

Business confidence, climate stimulates credit growth
The overall growth in investor confidence and the investor climate prevailing in Sri Lanka has seen the rise in loans to business from Sri Lanka’s commercial banks rising to Rs 1,666.4 billion up to May 2011 from the Rs 1,630.7 billion for 2010. This is an increase of Rs 33.9 billion between the corresponding periods of the two years.

Read more on Daily News

Speed the essence for leaky home owners
Owners of leaky homes which are almost 10 years old should move quickly to register for the Government’s $1 billion rescue package which passed into law yesterday.The legislation, which passed its third reading with a unanimous…

Read more on The New Zealand Herald

Greece must do more, IMF warns
GREECE’S efforts to close its budget gap have gone a long way but are “not sufficient”, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde.

Read more on Adelaide Now