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		<title>Goldman Sachs CEO makes $6.1M on stock options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein has  reaped a $6.1 million gain by cashing in more than 90,000 stock options  before they expired in November.
Blankfein realized the windfall  Wednesday by exercising his right to buy 90,681 Goldman shares at  $82.875, according to a Friday regulatory filing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.com/blog/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Skype Files for IPO; Seeks $100 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (TheStreet) &#8212; Skype, the online telephone company, filed to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a goal of raising up to $100 million.
Skype, now based in the tax haven of Luxembourg, was founded in 2003 by a pair of Swedish technology entrepreneurs. eBay(EBAY)  bought a majority stake in the startup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.com/blog/?p=184</link>
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		<title>Goldman and Citigroup to sell $788.5 million CMBS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS -News) and Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C - News) will sell a $788.5 million commercial mortgage-backed security, according to a term sheet sent to investors, in the largest deal of its kind since volume began crawling back after the financial crisis.
The issue would be the sixth since the CMBS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.com/blog/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Solar Capital&#8217;s Stellar Yield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
While addressing the CFA Institute in May, legendary value investor Seth Klarman suggested the stock market could suffer another decade without gains. That&#8217;s not something most investors want to hear. While awfully pessimistic, you have to consider the source credible. Klarman&#8217;s Baupost Group seeks out-of-favor stocks so a down market would certainly make his job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.com/blog/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Wall Streeters pulled back, but foreclosures swamp Nantucket natives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FORTUNE &#8212; In the past decade, Nantucket Island has served as a barometer for the fortunes of Wall Street. The glass cracked after years of unsustainable pressures. But almost by magic, the barometer is rising once more even as something new and unexpected has come to the summer paradise: foreclosures, short sales, failed auctions, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.com/blog/?p=176</link>
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		<title>A Show of Power From Dimon and JPMorgan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jamie Dimon is not the modern-day John Pierpont Morgan. He is not the new king of Wall Street, and he’s certainly not President Obama’s BBF (best banker friend). At least, that’s what he will tell you over lunch at the Park Avenue headquarters of JPMorgan Chase, the descendant of the House of Morgan that came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.com/blog/?p=174</link>
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		<title>Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc., Norfolk, VA, Formalizes Agreements With Regulators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NORFOLK, Va., July 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc. (Nasdaq:CWBS &#8211; News) (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) announced today that in recognition of their common goal to maintain the financial soundness of the Company, the Company and its banking subsidiary, Bank of the Commonwealth (the &#8220;Bank&#8221;), have mutually entered into a written agreement (the &#8220;Agreement&#8221;) with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.com/blog/?p=172</link>
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		<title>High-Yield Royalty Trusts Surge Amid Market Rally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the market strongly in positive territory, stocks of all shapes are sizes are moving higher, and a look at the day&#8217;s worst performing tickerspy Indexes shows only five of more than 270 are trading lower for the session. A number of high-yield equity sectors are participating in the rally, with royalty trusts getting a big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.com/blog/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Goldman execs grilled for taking AIG bailout money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; A Goldman Sachs executive told an inquiry panel Thursday that the firm had no regrets about collecting billions of dollars in taxpayer money for correctly predicting the demise of the U.S. housing market.
David Viniar, Goldman&#8217;s chief financial officer, said Uncle Sam had an obligation to honor American International Group&#8217;s full debts. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://matthewroszak.com/blog/?p=165</link>
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		<title>European Capital Announces Completion of Debt Restructuring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ST. PETER PORT, Guernsey, June 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ &#8212; European  Capital Limited (&#8220;European Capital&#8221;) announced today that it has  recently completed the restructuring and partial retirement of its debt.   European Capital&#8217;s parent company, American Capital, Ltd., is also  announcing today completion of its debt restructuring.
On 18 December 2009, European Capital&#8217;s wholly  [...]]]></description>
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