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The Motley Fool March 20, 2007 Toby Shute	Asta Lotta Debt! Debt purchaser Asta Funding buys a $6.9 billion portfolio. Why should investors care?
Registered Rep. March 16, 2007 Halah Touryalai	900 Down, Only a Handful to Go--Merrill Pays One More Female Broker; Separately, Thousands of Female Morgan Stanley Reps May Settle One of the last claimants from the 1997 class-action discrimination lawsuit against Merrill Lynch collected her reward late last month. Separately, Morgan Stanley has confirmed that it settled with over 3,000 claimants but would not comment further.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2007 David Lee Smith	Private Equity, Unveiled at Last? Blackstone Group's possible IPO may shed light on secretive private equity groups. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2007 David Lee Smith	Subprime Symptoms Starting to Spread? It seems that subprime mortgage difficulties have already started to spread. There will almost certainly be a more protracted softness for housing than we might have anticipated as recently as the final quarter of last year.
IDB America February 2007 Daniel Drosdoff	From Rope-Makers to Asparagus Farmers In rural Guatemala, a microlender grows by knowing its customers.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2007 Emil Lee	Wal-Mart Ditches Its Banking Bid The furor and delays over Wal-Mart's attempt to form an industrial loan corporation (ILC) have pretty much forced the retailer's hand to drop its bid.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2007 Tom Taulli	CBOT Gets an ICE Pick IntercontinentalExchange makes a last-minute bid for the Chicago Board of Trade. This is complex stuff, and not a safe place for smart investors. Keep your money to yourself, but pull up a chair and watch. This should be a pretty good fight.
Registered Rep. March 13, 2007 Halah Touryalai	RBC Goes East, Acquires New Jersey-Based Firm RBC Dain Rauscher is in acquisition mode. The Midwest regional is set to purchase New Jersey-based J.B. Hanauer, an employee-owned firm with $10 billion in assets under management.
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007 Mara Der Hovanesian et al.	Making Sense Of The Mortgage Mess The economy should be able to withstand the downdraft in the mortgage market.
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007 Maria Bartiromo	Inside The Mortgage Crisis CEO Angelo Mozilo says Countrywide Financial should not be lumped in with the subprime outfits that are getting hammered.
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