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...industry practice in the past few months. Goldman Sachs, too, says it expects to hire 60% more recent graduates this year than it did a year ago. Even Citigroup, which a year ago looked like it was headed for Wall Street's dustbin, is on a hiring binge. The bank is reportedly looking to a add workers in trading and hedge fund services...
...levy of its own should it win the May elections - with or without global support. "It just means there's less you can do if there's not international agreement than if there is," Conservative leader David Cameron said Tuesday. On the back of a one-off tax on bank bonuses and a hike in income tax for its highest paid staff, you can almost hear the financial sector cheer...
...latest initiatives are aimed at slowing the steady stream of homes that are headed toward foreclosure. The number of households receiving foreclosure filings, which includes default notices, auction-sale letters and bank repossessions, was 2.8 million in 2009, up from 2.3 million in 2008, according to Rick Sharga, vice president of marketing for RealtyTrac. He expects filings to increase to 3 million this year...
...rest of the international community. In order to restart peace talks, the Obama Administration has demanded that Israel freeze all settlement construction, in line with its obligation to do so under President Bush's 2002 peace road map. Netanyahu demurred, offering instead a temporary slowdown in West Bank settlement construction, but refusing to apply it in Jerusalem. The Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, and see Israeli settlement there - and in the West Bank - as reasons to doubt Israel's intent to conclude a peace agreement...
...prominent Jerusalem lawyer and peace activist Daniel Seidemann. "The window is closing fast," he says. "The Obama Administration hasn't blinked yet. If they do, they can pick another regional conflict to solve, because they are not going to solve this one." (See pictures of life in the West Bank settlements...