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- “Credit unions attracted more than 40,000 new account holders last week during the so-called Bank Transfer Day,” a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. [Bloomberg]
- How WalMart is benefiting from America’s frustration with big banks. [Huffington Post]
- Yields on Italian bonds yesterday “edged above 7 percent, the highest level since the adoption of the euro 10 years ago and close to levels that have required other euro zone countries to seek bailouts.” [New York Times]
- IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned yesterday “that Europe’s debt crisis risked plunging the global economy into a ‘lost decade.’” [CNBC]
- Former hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, who was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for insider trading, “was ordered to pay a record financial penalty of more than $92.8 million in a related civil case.” [Wall Street Journal]
- The Federal Communications Commission will announce today “a program to provide low-income homes with $10 monthly broadband Internet service and $150 computers.” [Washington Post]
- Goldman Sachs recorded trading losses on 21 days in the third quarter, “the most since the fourth quarter of 2008.” [Bloomberg]
- Toyota announced yesterday that “it is recalling about 550,000 vehicles worldwide — mostly in the United States — for problems that could make it harder to steer.” [Associated Press]
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