DOJ Urged By Lawmakers To Probe OPEC’s Oil And Gas Price Fixing

DOJ seeks early end to NJ bank’s redlining consent order

Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg The Department of Justice, which recently terminated one Biden-era fair lending consent order, is now pushing to free another bank from its obligations under a three-year-old redlining settlement. The DOJ filed an unopposed motion last week asking a federal judge to dismiss the department’s consent order with New Jersey-based Lakeland Bank more than […]

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Former Fed vice chair Stanley Fischer dies at 81

Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair and noted macroeconomist Stanley Fischer, who passed away Saturday at 81.Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Stanley Fischer, a professor and practitioner of macroeconomics who helped guide central banks in two countries, Israel and the US, and mentored a younger generation of economic decision-makers, has died. He was 81. He died on

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NYMT seeks leeway on debt-to-equity ratio to fuel investment

New York Mortgage Trust is staging a consent solicitation to support its latest move into what it considers the right mix and amount of less credit-sensitive assets and higher yielding ones. The company is asking for certain bond investors’ permission to exceed a maximum 8-to-1 debt-to-equity ratio it’s contractually obligated to ensure it meets on

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