• Stocks slump after investors focus on Europe woes (AP)
• Financial Reform Hits Speedbump As Democrats Defect (IBD)
  
• Senate fails to end debate on bank regulation bill
• Fifteen Uncommonly Clever Economic Indicators (Forbes)
• Mortgage delinquencies drag on economic recovery
• Will Investors Keep Shunning the Market? (U S News)
  
• Don't Shoot The Rating Agencies
• 6 Signs Consumer Spending is Back
• What's really behind SEIU's Bank of America protests (Fortune)
• Bailouts Offensive But Necessary
• The Top College Savings Plans
• Hoped-For ObamaCare Lifeline Falls Short For Dem Incumbents (IBD)
• What is naked short selling?
• Use Storytelling to Maintain Customer Interest (BusinessWeek)
  
• Volcker: We've Got What We Need in Senate Bill
• Loan demand to buy US homes sinks to 13-year low (Reuters)
  
• Variable-Annuity Sales Post First Increase Since 2008
  
• Consumer inflation vanishes, a boon for borrowers (AP)
  
• Why Voters Will Get a Lot Angrier
• Are Equity-Indexed Annuities Right For You? (perspective)
  
• Ghoulish’ STATs compared to STOLI ‘schemes’ as NAIC readies review
  
• New Retirees Often Make Poor Decisions (Financial Advisor)
  
• Life Insurance CFOs Expect to Change How They Determine Capital Requirements
  
• Why is good credit so important?
• Terms On Credit Cards Will Keep Getting Worse, FICO Survey Finds
• US small business lending plan advances (Reuters)
  
• Tips for getting a mortgage loan modification