Next on Janet Yellen’s to-do list: Winding down a $4.5T balance sheet
On Friday's menu: What's next on Yellen's to-do list. Plus: Small-cap stock weakness as a leading indicator, an SEC official dishes on PE funds, big banks are loving big mortgages, three finance questions you better be able to answer, and getting by on $6,000 an hour.
- As the Fed winds down its bond-buying program, Janet Yellen confronts the awkward issue of overseeing a $4.5 trillion balance sheet, which was at $800 billion before the financial crisis. It’s on her to-do list. Waiting for the policy-normalizing process
- Is the weakness among small-cap stocks suggesting the start of something very bad? Trouble looms beneath the surface
- An SEC official’s candid portrayal of widespread law-breaking within the private equity industry. Investors are blinding themselves to the risks of being ripped off. More than half the audited firms violated securities laws
- Wells Fargo, JPMorgan and Bank of America home in on the jumbo mortgage market. Leveraging relationships
- Three basic finance questions that half the world can’t answer correctly, and that’s not a good thing. A mind is a terrible thing to waste
- In a blatant attempt to pander to the wage-gap crowd, enjoy this list of 10 CEOs making more than $6,000 an hour. No word on whether they also get free parking. No wonder Starbucks coffee costs so much
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