Quoted: Investors jumped back into the stock market Thursday afternoon after the world's central banks embarked on a coordinated effort to ease the fear coursing through the global financial system, sending the Dow industrials up more than 400 points.

Quoted: The central lesson of this saga is clear. If you like the Bush economy, hire McCain. Over the next seven weeks, however, Americans who care about our economic future have to join Barack Obama in saying: enough.

« "One of the Wildest Chapters in the History of Lending and Borrowing"
The NYT goes chart crazy in -- "A series about the surge in consumer debt and the lenders who made it possible" -- looking at the economy, debt, housing, etc.

Quoted: Covestor was originated by a group of entrepreneurs who believe that salaried fund managers have no monopoly on investment talent and shouldn't have a lock on the rewards that come with investment success. Coming from the financial services and online world we trust our networks more than our brokers. We believe in democratizing the investment management industry and helping proven self-investors around the world compete with the large institutions.

iCompta is an application that lets you manage your personal accounts with ease.
Each account can have its own currency and you can organize operations by type.
You can then sort and filter operations to make statistics on your incomes and expenses.
You can show a graph of the balance evolution of an account and even have a forecast for the next months.
iCompta also lets you validate operations which are on your bank reports and therefore check that you are up to date with your accounts.
You can also make funds transfers between accounts.
iCompta lets you deal with the common problem of who owes what to who when you buy things with people.
iCompta documents can be encrypted with a password.
iCompta is open and can import / export files in the following formats :

* iCompta tab separated text file
* QIF
* OFX

Spotlight importer.
QuickLook plugin.

CRISIS breeds opportunity, as the bottom-fishers starting to circle beaten-up mortgage bonds and leveraged loans can attest. For George Soros it offers a chance of a different sort: to revive his favourite intellectual theory. In his latest book, “The New Paradigm for Financial Markets”, published on April 3rd, he sets out to illuminate the credit crunch through the prism of “reflexivity.”

Quoted: Pondering the crisis, and peddling a new paradigm

Welcome to the first edition of Wesabean News. We want to do our part to make sure this will be a great year for you and your money, so we’ve kicked off our monthly newsletter to tell you about new features and to help you get the most out of Wesabe.

The Wesabe Macintosh Dashboard Widget is a small application you can run on your MacOS X Dashboard to give you instant access to your account balances and recent transactions. The Dashboard Widget uses Apple’s Keychain to protect your password.

Quoted: PARIS (Reuters) - Other banks and the French taxman stand to make hundreds of million of dollars as Societe Generale boosts its capital with a deeply discounted rights issue after rogue trading and U.S.