Congress is being asked to look into Swiss banking giant UBS amid questions over its handling of bank-note transactions for Cuba.
Snap-up bank-note holders that press while they sterilise are also available, as are bug-killing tissues, floors, wallpaper, stuffed toys, bicycle child seats, sand boxes, origami paper and steering wheels.
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That includes everything from a mundane money market fund to something as complex as a Madoff-linked bank note.
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In some countries bank failures caused losses to note-holders, but the losses were small compared with those inflicted by the central banks that later took over note issuance.
Two others have exposure to oil futures: iPath Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) Crude Oil Total Return Index Exchange Traded Note and PowerShares Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ) Oil Fund.
An exchange-traded note is an unsecured bank IOU with returns pegged to some index.
On one three-year property-backed note sold by Nippon Credit Bank, for example, 80% of the income goes to taxes.
Joe LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank, expects the reintroduction of the 3-year note, monthly 10-year notes, as well as quarterly bonds.
Michael Rollins, analyst with Citigroup--the bank that led Vonage's ill-fated IPO last year--wrote in a March 26 note that "failing to successfully address the patent infringement suits" could force Vonage into "a financial restructuring or bankruptcy" in one or two years.
"They have little incentive to over-report use of energy, including electricity, as Beijing imposes increasingly restrictive regulations on energy use per unit of GDP on local governments, " said Bank of America Merrill-Lynch economist Lu Ting in a note.
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Barbara Ryan of Deutsche Bank wrote in a note to investors this morning that Schering-Plough is "no longer a growth story, but a cost-cutting one" and that she doesn't see the company's shares being awarded a higher multiple.
According to a research note published by Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ) Tuesday, expect another rate cut when the FOMC meets next week.
In May, a new five-euro note will be put into circulation by the European Central Bank.
"It's not going to replace traditional bank lending anytime soon, but it will be an alternative for some, " says Dr. Thomas Meyer, an economist at Deutsche Bank Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and author of a research note on person-to-person online lending.
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With the do-it-yourself structured note, you don't have to worry that the bank goes bust.
During just the first five months of the year, the central-bank buying amounted to 15% of global mining production during the same period, said a research note this week from Commerzbank.
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In a note to investors Friday, Bank of America analyst Scott Craig said Apple will begin building a third-generation iPhone in May.
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