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A Less Profitable Future for Goldman and Wall Street

Lawrence G. McDonald is the author of New York Times bestseller A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers. McDonald was a former Vice President and bond trader at the firm and is now managing director of Pangea Capital Management. I had the opportunity to speak with McDonald, fresh off a whirlwind trip to Europe in which he was a keynote speaker at a number of prestigious economic events.

German Stocks You Can Actually Buy

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Android devices offer tough competition to Apple's iPhones

There is a tough competition going on between the already available Android phones and the new Apple iPhone 4 that will be available today onwards.

Oracle rebounds, reports increase in sales; shares fall

Software monolith Oracle reported an increase of 18 percent in sales, and 17 percent in revenue, the first since recession. Despite the news, Oracle’s shares fell by 1.5 percent.

Deutsche Bank staff to share tax pain

London -- Deutsche Bank said it would apply a British tax targeting bank bonuses to its staff around the world to avoid having staff at only one location penalized.

"We will clearly globalize it," Chief Executive Officer Josef Ackermann said.
"It would be unfair to treat UK bankers differently," he said, The Financial Times reported Friday.

Some U.S. banks with a presence in Britain are considering taking steps to share the burden of the tax among shareholders, the Times said.

Ackerman said it was "absolutely undecided" how much of the tax burden would be passed down to shareholders at Deutsche Bank.

Dubai's colossal debt shakes the world

London, November 27 -- Stock markets fell around the world Thursday as investors worried over Dubai’s rising debt.

Deutsche Bank 3Q net profit estimate trebles

Frankfurt, Germany, October 21 -- Germany’s largest bank, Deutsche Bank AG, said in a surprise statement Wednesday that it expected its net profit to rise to 1.4bn-euro ($2.1bn), helped by tax benefits.

Food, energy demands to skyrocket

Madison, Wis. -- Food and energy demand will soar in the coming years because of population growth, says a U.S. report that urges more investment in global agriculture.

The report, by Deutsche Bank and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says the population growth will sharply increase demand for food, fiber and fuel.

"We are at a crossroads in terms of our investments in agriculture and what we will need to do to feed the world's population by 2050," wrote report co-author David Zaks, a researcher at the institute.

Markets retreat

New York -- U.S. stock indexes retreated from early gains Monday as General Electric shares fell to their lowest point in 14 years.

An analyst at Deutsche Bank said GE may have to reduce dividends to support its GE Capital business, The Wall Street Journal reported. GE shares fell more than 5 percent.

In early afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 142.97 points por 1.94 percent to 7,222.70. The Standard & Poor's 500 lost 17.04 or 2.21 percent to 753.01. The Nasdaq composite index lost 34.66 or 2.4 percent to 1,406.57.

The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rose 1/32 to yield 2.79 percent.

The euro fell to $1.2742, compared to Friday's $1.2837. Against the Japanese yen, the dollar rose to 94.81 yen, up from Friday's 93.05 yen.