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give more information for investors to judge the securities’ risk

In response, lawmakers and government agencies have been trying to lay down stricter rules for asset-backed securities.The Securities and Exchange Commission will weigh in Wednesday by proposing Wall Street firms that package and sell asset-backed securities be required to provide fuller disclosures on them.

The idea is to give investors more information to better judge the securities’ risk. That would reduce reliance on the Wall Street credit rating agencies. The three big agencies — Moody’s Investors Service Dell xps m1210 battery , Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings — were widely criticized for failing to give investors adequate warning of the risks in subprime mortgage securities that triggered the financial crisis.

The SEC commissioners are expected to propose the new rules at a public meeting Wednesday. The rules could be formally adopted after a public comment period, possibly with changes.Provisions in the House and Senate versions of legislation Sony VGP-BPS8 battery to overhaul financial regulation would require the “securitizers” to keep some of the risk themselves.

With some “skin in the game,” the thinking goes, Wall Street firms would be more careful to ensure that borrowers are properly screened. Experts say it was the lack of that “skin” that enabled a system in which the mortgage bundles were whisked from investor to investor, with no one assuming the risk of Dell vostro 1520 battery until the roof caved in.

Another idea is for regulators to set an industrywide lending standard governing minimum down payments, borrowers’ debt levels and other requirements. That has drawn opposition from financial industry interests.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has floated a proposal to require new standards for the lending industry.

Asset-backed securities would have to meet the standards to maintain a guarantee that they wouldn’t be seized from a bank by the government if the bank failed.”These reforms will help restore investor confidence on IBM thinkpad X60S battery … and prevent a recurrence of the crisis we are now working through,” FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said last month.But industry interests maintain it would make banks skittish about investing in any mortgage-backed securities.

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more money will flow into local economies from gas royalty payments

more money will flow into local economies from gas royalty payments

The freight railroad, which runs 35 miles north to Corning, New York, had its busiest year in more than two decades in 2009, fueled by demand from a booming natural gas industry, which uses sand in hydraulic fracturing operations.

Revenue doubled last year for Wellsboro & Corning Railroad, owned by Tom Myles and sons Tom Jr. and Bill, and the sand-hauling contracts that began a year ago are due to double revenue again in 2010 and make up 80 percent of Dell inspiron 1526 battery business.It’s a windfall for the Myles — who bought the railroad’s rolling stock for $750,000 in January 2008, expecting to serve two local manufacturing companies — and for Wellsboro, which has a population of about 3,200, and its surrounding farms.

The boom has also transformed the lives of some local farmers who, after struggling financially for years, now find themselves with six- or seven-figure checks from the gas companies in return for leasing their land for drilling.Tim Gooch, a partner in the Wellsboro office of the accounting firm ParenteBeard LLC, recalled a dairy farmer client who had run up about $500,000 in debt over 20 years because of depressed milk prices and rising farm costs.

But then in 2008, the farmer got a gas-lease check for $800,000, allowing him to pay off his debts and own his 300 acres outright for the first time, Gooch said.”Some of them have had tears in their eyes, thinking they may have to give up the farm to Dell inspiron 1521 battery ,” said Gooch. “The gas checks have allowed them to stay on their land.”

Energy companies are paying around $2,500 an acre — a lump sum of about $375,000 for a typical 150-acre farm, he said. And more money will also flow into local economies from gas royalty payments on Dell latitude d430 battery , which are yet to be paid in significant quantities.n Tioga County surrounding Wellsboro, the biggest local operator, East Resources Inc., drilled 42 Marcellus wells in 2009 and expects to sink another 200 this year.

The company and its affiliates employ about 60 people in the county and it expects its work force there to grow by 30 percent in 2010.Bob and Marsha Chesko own the Sherwood Motel in downtown Wellsboro and say it was full of Dell CF623 battery , or nearly so, throughout the 2009/10 winter — an unprecedented experience in their seven years there — due to an influx of workers at nearby gas rigs.

In previous years, the hotel’s winter occupancy struggled to reach 40 percent and traditionally depended largely on the summer trade of tourists visiting the picturesque northern Pennsylvania countryside.The Chesko’s previously set aside money from the summer tourist trade to see them through lean winter months, but this year the jump in winter business has allowed them to meet running and renovation expenses without dipping into reserves.

And with the expected growth in the area’s gas industry, Bob Chesko said: “It’s just the tip of the iceberg. Some say it’s going to be a 20-year project.” But some Wellsboro locals have raised concern over damage to roads from heavy truck traffic to Dell GD761 battery , worries about possible water contamination from the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, and unease that their quiet rural life style is being lost.

“I caught myself feeling very sad,” said Mary Worthington, treasurer of the local chamber of commerce, as she recently watched a constant stream of gas-industry trucks and mud-spattered pickups grind past her town-center office.

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advance ideas on the long-delayed legislation of oil

For the second time in a week the senators crafting the compromise, John Kerry, a Democrat, Lindsey Graham, a Republican, and Joe Lieberman, an independent, met with industry groups and oil companies in hopes of advancing ideas on the long-delayed legislation.Lieberman indicated he would like to have the bill introduced on April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.

If it takes longer, it would mark yet another in a string of delays for a bill that proponents originally had hoped the Senate would have passed by last October.But thorny issues remained unresolved of apple a1045 , such as putting fees on motor fuels during tough economic times, and regulating the drilling of vast supplies of natural gas from shale.

Lieberman said it was “not clear yet” where an oil industry fee would be applied. Graham on the other hand said it would be applied at the refinery level.”The longer we’ve talked about it, the more momentum we’ve gotten, but that won’t last forever, so we need to bring this thing to a conclusion,” Graham said about crafting a bill.

States have historically have been less stringent in regulating hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” which injects water, sand and chemical fluids into rock formations to get to the fuel for apple a1022 battery .Exploitation of natural gas from shale could allow the United States to slash greenhouse gas emissions and cut its dependence on coal.

But as critics say fracking pollutes water, the Environmental Protection Agency will begin to study if human health is impacted by fracking fluids of apple a1148 . The oil companies want states to disclose the chemical composition of fracking fluids to doctors or agencies only when needed to protect human health but to keep “the confidentiality of trade secrets information,” on the chemicals, the document said.

The companies would not comment on the document. In addition, the wider oil industry would like to see expansions in offshore drilling in the bill of apple a1008 battery . Bruce Josten, a vice president at the Chamber of Commerce, told reporters he understood that the offshore oil part of the bill would set up two levels for states to say whether they want to participate in expanded oil drilling.

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hike taxes on the rich to help the poor hit

Britain’s finance minister vowed to hike taxes on the rich to help the poor hit by the global downturn, and to cut borrowing targets in a budget unveiled weeks before a knife-edge election of hp pavilion dv2000 battery .Alistair Darling on Wednesday warned that growth would be weaker than expected in 2011 as Britain recovered from a record recession, as he unveiled the last budget before the general election, which is expected on May 6.

“Looking across all the tax rises since the beginning of this global crisis, 60 percent of them will be paid for by the top five percent of earners.”Darling revealed that 2.0 billion pounds (2.2 billion euros, 3.0 billion dollars) raised from a supertax on bankers’ bonuses would be ploughed into a programme to help boost recovery.

This 2.5-billion-pound “growth package” would “help small business, promote innovation, invest in national infrastructure”, Darling told parliament.Economists played down its importance on hp 417066-001 battery .In a vitriolic response to the budget, the Conservatives’ leader David Cameron lashed out at the government for having helped guide Britain into the worst economic downturn in modern history.

“As the headline 2.5-billion-pound package is worth just 0.2 percent of GDP, it will not have a significant impact on the economic outlook,” said Daiwa economist Colin Ellis.here was more bad news for high earners, who already face a 50-percent income tax rate on earnings over 150,000 pounds this year.

Britons with annual incomes in excess of 100,000 pounds would have their annual tax-free allowance gradually withdrawn, said Darling.But economists argue that further tax hikes and spending cuts will eventually be needed to fix the public purse of hp pavilion dv2500 battery , which has been hit by banking bailouts and recession-hit taxation revenues.

In a measure aimed at helping first-time property buyers struggling to get a rung on the housing ladder, Darling said people buying a property would not have to pay tax on properties costing less than 250,000 pounds. The chancellor also announced measures to allow more of Britain’s poorest people access to basic bank account facilities of hp 510 battery . According to Treasury figures, 1.75 million adults do not yet have them.Related article: Britain plans ‘green’ investment bank

The chancellor cut his economic growth forecast for 2011 to 3.0-3.5 percent but held his prediction of 1.0-1.5 percent expansion for hp dv8000 battery this year. He also trimmed his official borrowing target to 167 billion pounds for the current financial year, which runs until the end of this month. That was equivalent to 11.8 percent of GDP but was lower than the previous estimate of 178 billion pounds.

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