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European regulators have ordered banks to raise capital and shrink their balance sheets, leading to the sale of assets to American businesses and financial firms.

Yahoo’s board will consider selling its holdings in Alibaba Group and its Japanese affiliate back to their majority holders in a complicated tax-free deal valued at about $17 billion.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday ordered assets of two Libyan banks that had been under the control of Moammar Gadhafi to be unfrozen, clearing the way for the return of more than $40 billion to help the new government rebuild the country.

Since 2009, Germany and a handful of other countries, like the Netherlands, have benefited significantly from cheaper borrowing as investors diverted cash from riskier assets.

Lower corporate earnings and reports that a key meeting between European financial ministers had been canceled pulled stocks lower Tuesday.

Assets that tend to hold their value in a weak economy like U.S. government debt and gold rose.

A recent chart in American Banker magazine highlighted that free checking at larger banks is getting scarcer.

As recently as 2009, 96 percent of banks with more than $50 billion in assets offered free checking; now, that number has dropped to 34.6 percent.

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The search for a safe haven just got even trickier. BNY Mellon announced on Thursday that it is to charge a fee on all those cash deposits piling in as investors flee risk assets.

A federal judge has frozen assets of three Swiss-based investment firms accused of profiting from trades based on inside information of a planned acquisition.

U.S. job growth and signs of global manufacturing expansion sent stocks sharply higher Wednesday. Bond prices and the dollar fell as investors moved money into riskier assets.