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Box office futures market chief attacks 'powerful special interest group' MPAA in mail blast to senators
Company TownThe battle over box office futures has hit senators' in-boxes. The head of Media Derivatives, one of two proposed markets for trading futures contracts related to box office receipts, has sent a letter to all 100 senators attacking a legislative...... -
Wall Street Roundup: Employment numbers. Bank investigations everywhere
Money & CompanyGood employment news. The number of people filing for unemployment benefits declined again, though only slightly, the Labor Department reported. Bank investigations everywhere. A few weeks after reporting that Goldman Sachs was under criminal... -
Senate passes financial overhaul
The SwampAn exuberant Sen. Chris Dodd is flanked by Sens. Harry Reid and Dick Durbin, with Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Warner in the background, after the Senate passed a sweeping regulatory overhaul bill Thursday night. (Getty/Mark Wilson) by Janet......Tags: Arlen Specter, Business, Republican Party, Harry Reid, Democratic Party
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Tweetable items from Phil Jackson and Doc Rivers pregame press conferences
Lakers BlogTweetable items from Lakers Coach Phil Jackson --Jackson said the team is ready, though he admitted he wouldn't tell the press otherwise. --The Lakers had a long shoot-around because of the change in time zones. "We took our time today because it's a long... -
Cantor Fitzgerald abandoning box-office futures despite regulatory approval
Company TownWall Street giant Cantor Fitzgerald's application to trade futures contracts based on box-office receipts was approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in a 3-2 vote Monday, but the news came too late to matter. With financial reform... -
Opening soon: the box-office betting window
Opinion L.A.Over the Motion Picture Assn. of America's strenuous objections, a divided Commodities Futures Trading Commission on Monday approved a proposal by Media Derivatives to sell futures contracts based on the opening weekend box-office receipts for "Takers," a... -
A kinder, friendlier Live Nation Entertainment? Cheaper tickets come with a cost
Pop & HissAfter noting during an investors meeting that ticket sales for the top 100 touring bands are down 12% this year, Live Nation Entertainment's major executives went on the defensive Thursday, blaming the press for "scaring" artists from touring and arguing.... -
Fed keeps low-rate pledge, but dissent surfaces among policymakers
Money & CompanyFederal Reserve policymakers painted a brighter picture of the U.S. economy in their post-meeting statement today, but still held to their pledge to keep short-term interest rates near zero “for an extended period.” For the first time since the... -
Fed upshot: Six more months of near-zero short rates?
Money & CompanySteady as it goes, Federal Reserve policymakers declared in their post-meeting statement Tuesday: They left their benchmark short-term interest rate unchanged in the range of zero to 0.25% and once again pledged to keep it low for an “extended period”... -
Hollywood studios, through lobbying arm, object to box office futures markets
Company TownHollywood's big movie studios are trying to ensure that there's no future for box-office futures. The Motion Pictures Assn. of America, the lobbying group that represents the six major film studios, has notified the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading... -
Junk bond sales hit a record as investors rush for yield
Money & CompanyInvestors’ appetite for U.S. Treasury securities may have waned, but their hunger for high-yield corporate junk bonds remains robust.Yield is king: If you have it, investors want it -- and nobody’s terribly worried about risk at the moment. That... -
Home loan rates stay low, historically, but will mortgage-bond investors want better returns?
Money & CompanyThursday was Day One of the mortgage market’s new life without Federal Reserve assistance. And as was widely expected, the market stood on its own two feet. Benchmark yields on mortgage-backed securities issued and guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie.....
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