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Another Day, Another Fine: Barclays again, $43.9 million, for manipulating gold prices. Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times

Housing: Sales of previously owned homes rose in April for the first time this year, and per "Heard on the Street," new home sales data due out Friday is expected to show a rebound from March's anemic figure. Affordability remains a challenge, though, this Journal column notes, and according to the Times, in...

Banks have tried to change tellers' skill sets without changing the type of people they hire. They need to recruit sales-minded employees Â-- and incentivize them with better pay and clearer career paths.

Before the FSOC or other agencies start to impose capital requirements on nonbank financial companies, let's make sure we understand the business models and the risks that these firms actually take.

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Suisse Plea, Take Two: Credit Suisse chief executive Brady Dougan said in a Tuesday conference call that he never considered stepping down during the course of the U.S. government's investigation over whether the Swiss banking giant helped Americans evade taxes. But Dougan apparently came closer to losing his job than his comments suggest. The bank's board members considered asking Dougan to step down in exchange for an assist from the Swiss government,...

There are a lot of great programs aimed at helping low-income people improve their financial circumstances. One problem: figuring out how to connect with them in the first place.