http://finreviewer.com News blog Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:39:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the euro region is ready to rescue Greece should the government struggle to fund its budget deficit, arguing that the country is “under attack” from so-called speculators. “I want to be very clear: if it were necessary, the states of the euro ... http://finreviewer.com/sarkozy-says-euro-region-will-help-greece-if-needed/ The Senate might break its impasse on financial overhaul if it moves forward with a proposal that would put a consumer financial protection watchdog inside the Federal Reserve. But such a move could water down the impact of a such a consumer watchdog, especially when compared to the ... http://finreviewer.com/senate-panel-mulls-consumer-protection-deal/ Japanese Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei said the central bank should contemplate directly purchasing debt from the government to help overcome deflation. “The central bank should consider underwriting debt to help the government create funds for fiscal stimulus,” Kamei said at a parliamentary hearing in Tokyo today. ... http://finreviewer.com/kamei-urges-bank-of-japan-to-underwrite-debt-to-beat-deflation/ Bond prices fell Wednesday after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress that interest rates will stay low for "an extended period."What prices are doing: The benchmark 10-year note ticked down 1/32 to 99-14/32, pushing the yield up to 3.69% from 3.68% late Tuesday. Bond prices and yields ... http://finreviewer.com/treasurys-fall-after-bernanke/ Consumer prices rose from a year ago amid climbing gasoline prices but the pace of price increases slowed, the government said Friday.The Consumer Price Index, the government's key inflation reading, rose 2.6% during the past 12 months, according to a report from the Labor Department. In December, prices ... http://finreviewer.com/consumer-prices-rise-26/ TGen Drug Development and Rondaxe Enterprises have forged an alliance to help emerging companies speed new treatments to cancer patients. Syracuse, N.Y.-based Rondaxe is a drug development consulting firm that helps emerging pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms navigate through all phases of the drug development and commercialization process. Scottsdale-based TGen ... http://finreviewer.com/tgen-rondaxe-alliance-to-aid-cancer-patients/ The University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky and Kentucky State University will receive a total of $556,137 from the Kentucky Science and Technology Corp.’s Kentucky Commercialization Fund to help them bring to market emerging technologies. The University of Louisville will use its $361,887 for various programs, according to ... http://finreviewer.com/universities-get-556000-for-new-technologies/ Well, that didn't take long.Less than an hour after Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) unveiled its new social network, Google Buzz, Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) and Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) took shots at their rival, both claiming that they've been running a similar service for years."Busy people don't want ... http://finreviewer.com/google-buzz-slammed-by-yahoo-and-microsoft/ Group of Seven finance ministers promised to spend now and save later as they try to spur the global economic rebound without incurring the wrath of investors increasingly focused on mounting debt. “The position for most countries is to support the economies now and get the budget ... http://finreviewer.com/g-7-risks-%e2%80%98muddled-middle%e2%80%99-with-plan-to-spend-now-save-later/ Spain’s industrial production fell in December by the least in more than year as government stimulus measures bolstered car sales and the global recovery underpinned exports. Output at factories, refineries and mines declined 1.4 percent from a year earlier, adjusted for the number of working days, after ... http://finreviewer.com/spanish-december-industrial-output-decline-slows/