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Lightbank, the seed fund created by Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, is investing $1.5 million in Benzinga.com, a Michigan-based real-time financial news site with trading tips, as well as aggregated content from other sites such as TheStreet.com and WSJ.com, parent site of this blog.

“We like the proposition of an actionable trading information network, and we like the entrepreneurs behind Benzinga,” said Lightbank partner Paul Lee, who joined the fund earlier this year. “We think there has to be a certain brand connotation with these kinds of sites and we see that in Benzinga’s founder.”

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Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Royal Bank of Scotland to fight US mortgage action

The Royal Bank of Scotland says it will vigorously defend itself against US government claims it misrepresented the quality of mortgages it sold.

The US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has filed lawsuits against 17 banks, including RBS, Barclays and HSBC, over mortgage-based investments.

Values plunged during the financial crisis and a bailout of mortgage firms cost US taxpayers billions of dollars.

RBS says it has “substantial” legal and factual defences to the US claims.

A spokesman said: “We believe we have substantial and credible legal and factual defences to these claims and will defend them vigorously.”

HSBC and Barclays declined to comment to the BBC on the legal action.

‘Improper actions’

Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, Citigroup, and Societe Generale are among the other banks facing legal action from the FHFA.

BBC business correspondent Joe Lynam says it is believed the financial institutions are being sued for a sum in the tens of billions.

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Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Royal Bank of Scotland to fight US mortgage action

The Royal Bank of Scotland says it will vigorously defend itself against US government claims it misrepresented the quality of mortgages it sold.

The US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has filed lawsuits against 17 banks, including RBS, Barclays and HSBC, over mortgage-based investments.

Values plunged during the financial crisis and a bailout of mortgage firms cost US taxpayers billions of dollars.

RBS says it has “substantial” legal and factual defences to the US claims.

A spokesman said: “We believe we have substantial and credible legal and factual defences to these claims and will defend them vigorously.”

HSBC and Barclays declined to comment to the BBC on the legal action.

‘Improper actions’

Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, Citigroup, and Societe Generale are among the other banks facing legal action from the FHFA.

BBC business correspondent Joe Lynam says it is believed the financial institutions are being sued for a sum in the tens of billions.

The FHFA said in a statement that there had been “improper actions by the firms and individuals”.

“Based on our review, FHFA alleges that the loans had different and more risky characteristics than the descriptions contained in the marketing and sales materials provided to the Enterprises for those securities,” the statement said.

The FHFA oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which act as guarantor for most home loans in the US.

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Day rates for the movement of goods around the world hit their peak in early 2008, a few months before the global financial crisis. Which direction are these same prices heading in now, and can the shipping industry help predict the direction of the global economy?

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A port in Singapore. Around 90 per cent of all the world’s goods are transported by sea, meaning that when economic activity is strong, the shipping industry is buoyant.

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Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi, which is being constructed between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, is one of the largest infrastructure projects in the world.

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* Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Foreign investment begins to pour into Iraq

The amount of new foreign investment deals is on track to double this year, according to a report by Dunia Frontier Consultants, which specializes in emerging markets. In the first half of this year, Iraq attracted $45.6 billion in foreign investment, about $3 billion more than all of last year, the report says.

The rush of investment this year reflects a new confidence in Iraq’s stability and a reduction in risk, analysts say. “This is money talking,” said Campbell Harvey, professor of finance at Duke University in North Carolina.

U.S. companies have been slow to get in on the investment opportunities in Iraq, even lagging behind countries that opposed the war, such as France.

Last year, French companies represented 9.9% of the foreign investment in Iraq, compared with 4.7% for American companies, the Dunia report says.

“U.S. companies tend to be more risk-averse than their European counterparts and certainly their regional counterparts,” said Nicholas Skibiak, emerging markets director at Dunia.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been urging American companies to consider investments in Iraq and pushing the U.S. government to more aggressively represent the interests of American businesses in the country.

“We have invested a lot in Iraq over the last decade in blood and treasure, and it is really unfortunate if we permit our trading partners to sort of capitalize on that investment to our disadvantage,” said Lionel Johnson, vice president of Middle East affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Skibiak said there is an “almost perverse irony” in that the United States was accused by war critics of going to war to exploit Iraq’s oil and other resources and “yet as a country we have very little to show for it.”

This year, U.S. companies have shown more of an appetite for investing in Iraq. In the first six months of this year, U.S. companies represented 6.4% of the foreign investment in Iraq.

‘Re-evaluate the Iraqi market’

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