Even with human costs paramount, a global crisis has impact on investments.

The Orderly Liquidation Authority created by the Dodd-Frank Act retains many of the flaws of ad-hoc pre-crisis practices and does little to improve creditors’ incentives to monitor risk-taking.

Hot Stocks of the Day: (UUU), (BCS), (LAKE), (APT).

Several dampening factors – asset-quality troubles, mortgage liabilities and tighter regulations – will decide the fate of the U.S. banks in the quarters ahead.

The probe hinges upon the suspicion that the traders at the banks manipulated the foreign exchange rates which served as benchmarks for huge amount of investments.

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