Money & Markets – Week of 8.16.09

FDIC Transfers Guaranty to BBVA Compass
FDIC (21 Aug 09)

China Now Japan’s Top Partner
Zero Hedge.com (20 Aug 09)

Regulators Shut Guaranty Financial
ABC News (21 Aug 09)

Pension Watch
Pension Tsunami.com (21 Aug 09)

Bernanke Diverging With King Means Dollar May Decline (Update1)
Bloomberg.com (21 Aug 09)

FDIC May Add to Special Fees as Mounting Failures Drain Reserve
Bloomberg.com (21 Aug 09)

Switzerland Selling UBS Stake After U.S. Tax Accord (Update4)
Bloomberg.com (21 Aug 09)

Monetization of US Treasurys In Isolation
Gold Seek (20 Aug 09)

S&P: Weakest Links Drop as Defaults Increase
Leveraged Finance News.com (19 Aug 09)

U.K. Government Swaps Rise After Cameron Warns of Default Risk
Bloomberg.com (20 Aug 09)

Obama To Reduce Budget Deficit By $262 On “Fewer” Than Expected Bank Failures
Zero Hedge (19 Aug 09)

Fed Says Banks Tightened Lending in Second Quarter (Update2)
Bloomberg.com (19 Aug 09)

Pimco Says Dollar to Weaken as Reserve Status Erodes (Update3)
Bloomberg.com (19 Aug 09)

Fla. Population Drops For 1st Time Since 1946
MyWay (17 Aug 09)

China’s CIC Set to Invest in U.S. Mortgages
Reuters (17 Aug 09)

Sec Review of AIG Probed Disclosure “Inconsistencies”
Reuters (17 Aug 09)

China Swaps Dollars For Oil
Money Morning (18 Aug 09)

Australian Senate Rejects Rudd’s Cap and Trade Emissions Plan
Bloomberg.com (18 Aug 09)

UBS Clients Used Foreign Shells to Hide Income
The Seattle Times (17 Aug 09)

BB&T takes over Colonial BancGroup
Dallas Business Journal (17 Aug 09)

Cuomo Likely to File Suit Against Schwab: Report
Yahoo Finance (17 Aug 09)

The “Zimdollar:” Dead, But Still Used For Bus Fare
Yahoo News (16 Aug 09)

The Way to a Macro Recovery That Includes Not Only The Privileged
Telegraph.co.uk (16 Aug 09)

Business Survey Buried, Say Tories
Telegraph.co.uk (15 Aug 09)

Iceland: What Ugly Secrets Are Waiting to be Exposed in The Meltdown?
Telegraph.co.uk (15 Aug 09)

Gulf Arab Money ‘Behind Purchases of Israeli Land’
Breitbart.com (15 Aug 09)

There’s no Quick Fix to The Global Economy’s Excess Capacity
Telegraph.co.uk (15 Aug 09)

Toxic Loans Topping 5% May Push 150 Banks to Point of No Return
Bloomberg.com (16 Aug 09)

California to Redeem IOUs Early
The Wall Street Journal (14 Aug 09)

A Hand Up for Students Facing a Mountain of Debt
The New York Times (14 Aug 09)

Alternative Yardsticks For US Earnings Tell Different Stories
Financial Times (13 Aug 09)