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- A city-ordered cleanup of the park where Occupy Wall Street protesters have camped out “was postponed early Friday, sending cheers up from a crowd that had feared the effort was merely a pretext to evict them.” [Associated Press]
- A dozen Ocuppy Wall Street protesters “were arrested Thursday afternoon as they tried to stop a foreclosure auction inside a courthouse in Brooklyn, N.Y.” [iWatch News]
- The Obama administration is considering a new plan to “draw private investment back into the government-dominated mortgage market.” [Wall Street Journal]
- “A majority of states have officially signaled that they plan to seek” waivers from No Child Left Behind offered by the Obama administration. [Education Week]
- Members of the G20 are meeting this weekend and are reportedly “considering a boost for the International Monetary Fund’s lending capacity to help the euro zone tackle its deepening debt crisis.” [Wall Street Journal]
- Former trader Raj Rajaratnam “was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison,” the longest ever sentence for insider trading. [Washington Post]
- Standard & Poor’s yesterday “cut Spain’s long-term credit rating, citing the country’s high unemployment, tightening credit and high private sector debt.” [Reuters]
- Visa and Mastercard are facing a lawsuit alleging that they “violated antitrust laws by fixing the price of ATM access fees.” [Reuters]
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