Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending emerged a few years before the financial crisis gripped the globe. In the United States, Prosper was founded in early 2006 and Lending Club, which began as a Facebook application, opened its doors (figuratively speaking)...

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Favorable monetary policy and improving economic growth have remained steady, but investors appeared to focus on some of the negatives last week. Sentiment seemed to sour due to the rising turmoil in Iraq (and subsequent rise in oil prices), as w...

We continue to expect the Fed to trim QE by $10 billion per month this year and to remain on pace to exit QE by the end of 2014...