This yin of market growth and economic progress is more than just a contrast with the yang of financial and banking loss.

WSJ: Standard & Poor's 500 Had a Good Year in 2011 -- If You Don't Count Too-Big-To-Fail Banks

True enough: the investment bank's return on equity was 10.2% in the first half of this year, while retail banking made a loss.

ECONOMIST: Unicredito is the bank's latest rumoured partner

Even as Pecora's findings outraged the public they fuelled a loss of confidence in the banking system.

ECONOMIST: How Ferdinand Pecora won the blame game

There were cost cutting, loan-loss reserve releases, investment-banking fees and trading and a wave of refinancing.

WSJ: Debbie Downers on Wall Street

The canny smaller brother of Scotland's two giant banking delinquents registered its first full-year loss.

BBC: Clydesdale Bank

But that may be the lesser of two evils: capital controls might pose an even greater risk if they lead to a wider loss of confidence in other weak peripheral banking systems.

WSJ: Now We Are Seeing Politics in the Raw

To combat the population loss and anchor an economic revival, Binghamton leaders are banking on small businesses and, increasingly, the 15, 000-student Binghamton University.

WSJ: Dreams of Binghamton

The company posted its first quarterly loss in two and a half years on Tuesday because of the slump in investment banking revenues.

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While the January package referred vaguely to "strengthening the legal and supervisory framework for banking, " the new deal sets minimum capital of 250 billion rupiah and makes loan-loss provisions tax-deductible.

CNN: Dealing with Jakarta's Debt

Freddie Mac, the mortgage banking giant that has been a unit of the U.S. government since 2008, reported a smaller loss than last year amid a still faltering housing market.

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