At the start of his first term, Obama's pick to lead the Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner, emerged from a tough confirmation fight in the wake of recession to help push through Wall Street reform as well as the banking and auto industry rescues.

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Now, those firms are snapping up hedge-fund like investment funds, in a push into some businesses now prohibited at Wall Street banks in the wake of the post-crisis regulations.

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Wall Street analysts often push the companies in this direction.

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Two articles in yesterday's Wall Street Journal are bringing attention to a growing movement in American politics: the push for state governments to pass laws mandating that their pension funds divest from companies doing business in states that sponsor terrorism, notably Iran.

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An expiration of the Bush fiscal package, on the other side, can push the US economy into a recession in early 2013, an ugly prospect for Wall Street.

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By the early hours of the morning, the hotel had become a conflict zone in its own right as the riot police had managed to push all the protesters up a side street to its right.

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In New York, Senator Alfonse D'Amato lost despite a hefty infusion of funds from Wall Street, which wanted him to push through banking reform in his post as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.

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The push into cyberspace is seen as a defensive move that comes amid fears of a decline in High Street spending.

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The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Verizon Communications is in talks with Google 's YouTube to push its short video clips to Verizon Wireless cellphones as well as to subscribers to its fiber-optic TV service.

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