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- Occupy Wall Street needs to work to reinstate Glass-Steagall.
- President Obama should march to Wall Street and announce that he's bringing back the Glass-Steagall act.
- Cal Thomas argues against a North Carolina federal judge's ruling that forcing a woman to view an ultrasound of the fetus before an abortion is a violation of her First Amendment rights.
- Local credit unions have seized on the public's discontent with big banks to step up their marketing efforts to pull in more customers.
- Capital Bank, National Association of Rockville has agreed to assume the deposits and buy nearly all the assets of a Pennsylvania bank that was closed by regulators Thursday, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
- Some banks soon will find it more difficult to slap consumers with overdraft fees — a boon to customers who discover that one misstep can lead to a cascade of penalties.
- Robert G. Wilmers, M&T Bank Corp.'s chairman and chief executive officer, has been leading the Buffalo, N.Y. bank's shopping spree in Maryland.