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• Bank of America's Countrywide in record $500 million mortgage settlement
• BofA in $500 million settlement with mortgage investors
• If Europe wants Thatcherism, it must abandon austerity: Kaletsky
• Financing options open up for costly divorces
• Sharp drop in gold caught many funds off guard: Burbank
• As gold prices drop, U.S. shoppers, investors ponder options
• Wall Street slides on growth worries, commodities selloff
• Wall Street falls as data triggers slowdown worry
• Wall Street to open lower after China, Empire State data
• Hedge fund urges Jones Group to scale back: WSJ
• U.S.-based loan funds saw $1.5 billion record inflow
• Now not the time to reduce Fed policy action: Fed's Rosengren
• U.S.-based loan funds gain $1.5 billion record inflow: Bank of America
• Bankrupt California city to resume paying pension fund, but not bondholders
• Ex-KPMG auditor to plead guilty, free on $150,000 bond: lawyer
• The North Korean threat in an age of Pentagon cuts: Nicholas Wapshott
• Prosecutors, SEC charge ex-KPMG partner in insider trading scheme
• Republicans accuse SEC of dragging its feet on JOBS Act
• Owe taxes and can't pay? You have options
• BofA spinoff raises $735 million private equity fund
• U.S. insider stock sales send up red flag for investors
• SEC says U.S. companies taking advantage of new relaxed IPO rules
• IRS whistleblower program slammed by tax informants' attorneys
• Obama administration says housing agency needs $943 million
• Obama proposes market-based interest rates for student loans
• Obama administration foresees $943 million bailout for FHA
• Analysis: For utilities, selling grids is like selling their soul
• Hearing to expose IRS informant program to scrutiny
• How to buy a dream house that is not for sale
• Insight: Insurers see promise in pay-for-performance health plans
• U.S. workers stuck with euro-style sluggishness
• Top tax writers renew pledge for tax code revamp
• North Korea's known unknowns
• Jana expects two of its candidates to win Agrium board seats

• Wall Street retreats as banks, energy weigh
• Hargreaves Lansdown boss sees UK financial advice oligopoly
• Paying the mortgage by passing the buck
• Gold's fall not a harbinger of happy days: James Saft
• Wall Street posts worst day since November 7 on gold's drop, Boston blasts
• Sharp gold sell off caught many funds off-guard: Burbank
• Star Canada stockpicker runs year's top U.S. bond fund
• Reduce Treasury purchases first, hang on to MBS: Rosengren
• Citigroup first-quarter profit rises 31 percent
• Crunch-time for money managers as swaps clearing deadline nears
• Rosengren defends Fed's dual mandate, policy accommodation
• Rosengren defends Federal dual mandate, policy accommodation
• Financing options open up for costly divorces
• Ex-KPMG auditor freed on $150,000 bond in tips-for-cash scheme
• Insider trading - all the cool kids are doing it
• The sorrow and the pity of Obama's budget
• U.S. to file charges soon in ex-KPMG auditor's case: source
• Factbox: What are catastrophe bonds?
• Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz hires software veteran as adviser
• Lew says U.S. still opposed to financial transaction tax
• OppenheimerFunds wins end of $767 million AAArdvark lawsuit
• In New Jersey, spared by Sandy but paying the price in taxes
• New math for home affordability
• Equities in a sweet rut
• Your skin in Washington's budget game
• Fidelity executive says Congress should mandate a higher savings rate
• Ethical economy: In favor of the living wage
• PIMCO flagship fund raises Treasury holdings, cuts mortgages
• MasterCard under EU fire over payment card fees
• Japan's big leak: James Saft
• EU antitrust regulators to investigate MasterCard card fees
• Take the lazy portfolio route to big returns
• Public pensions risks vary widely for local government: Fitch

• Germany launches tax probes against Credit Suisse employees
• A failure to lead at the U.N
• Tax filing changes could help fight refund fraud: IRS
• UK fund managers face biggest hit from EU bonus cap
• Citi profit rises 30 percent as investment banking grows
• Rothschild seeks to buy U.S. fund of funds businesss
• Citigroup profit rises 30 percent as investment banking grows
• Citigroup profit rises 31 percent as investment banking grows
• Is American democracy dysfunctional?: Lawrence Summers
• High costs dim appeal of multi-asset funds
• MUFG chief plans to ramp up assets in U.S. and Asia
• U.S.-based loan funds saw $1.5-billion record inflow: Bank of America
• Wall Street needs strong earnings to sustain global stocks lead
• U.S. charges ex-KPMG auditor in tips-for-cash scheme
• Retirement savers go online for low-cost advice
• Exclusive: Apax, Morgan Stanley look to sell Hub - sources
• Broker-client handshake not enough, FINRA wants paperwork
• High investor interest in cat bonds pulls pricing to record lows
• Backer defends virtual currency Bitcoin after big fall
• Banks find new niche as activist campaigns grow
• U.S. urged to bridge accounting body cash gap
• Retail trade group to opt out of $7.2 billion credit card-fee pact
• Tax informants' attorneys slam IRS whistleblower program
• Money market assets fall in latest week: iMoneyNet
• Bosses need to do more than Crosby to show remorse
• EU grid champion stuck in tangle of wires and pipes
• Intelsat to test investors' love for leverage
• Obama's fix would trim Social Security checks
• Microsoft, Nokia demand EU action over Google's Android
• Activist investors find allies in mutual, pension funds
• Margaret Thatcher, an enlarger of British freedom: Sir Harold Evans
• Insurance missteps can trigger steep costs
• Fitch: Risks vary widely in local government pensions