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Small Business Riding Out Perfect Storm of Credit Crunch - Credit Market * US * News * Story - CNBC

The challenges in the credit market from sub-prime real estate impacting small businesses. Everything is connected.

Here comes the Fed

US Treasury Secretary Herny Paulson is pushing to give the Fed more power to intervene in markets

High finance, complexity and disaster

Here is the paradox of markets: they are bigger, more liquid and more lucrative than ever but mistakes by a handful of companies send shock waves around the world. All created by complex financial innovation and new fangled forms of money like derivatives.

The myth of labor market deregulation

Profits around the world are on the increase but a Bank for International Settlements study finds it has nothing to do with labor market deregulation. Profits were higher in places where there was more labor market regulation.

Bear markets and the Rumsfeld effect

You know things are really looking bad on the markets what the central banks start pumping in money to ease the liquidity crunch. But it s a band-aid solution because no-one where the risks are. It s a bit like Donald Rumsfeld s unknown unknowns . Do the banks know something we don t?

A Golden Age for Insider Trading

Welcome to the Golden Age of insider trading. Investment banks, analysts and experts are in it up top their necks and the Securities and Exchange Commission now has a real battle trying to stop them.

London to overtake New York and rival Silicon Valley

Here's a warning to America. Within the next eight years, London will overtake New York as the world's financial hub, and it will rival Silicon Valley as a technology centre.

Insider trading: is it back?

Is insider trading back? A Credit Suisse investment banker is arrested and questions are arising out of unsual trading in Dow Jones stock. There are now more opportunities for insider trading with BlackBerries, cell phones, much more access internationally.

The politics and markets of unspeakable jargon

A new form of bad jargon is being implanted in our brains to create confusion and stop people asking hard questions. Terms like the war on terror , private equity , venture capital and asylum seekers are just some examples.

Can New York bounce back?

A 134-page McKinsey report released by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and US Senator Charles Schumer recommends more reforms to Sarbanes-Oxley. But fixing Sarbanes-Oxley won t stop New York losing business because there are many other forces at work.

Rewriting SOX

The move to rewrite Sarbanes-Oxley keeps gaining momentum with the release of the Hank Paulson-backed Interim Report of the Committee for Capital Markets Regulation. Recommendations include replacing shareholder class actions with arbitration and reducing the scope for criminal enforcement against companies.