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President-elect Barack exhibits Obama on observes Monday sought theremaining $350 billion of federal financial bailout funds fromthe U.S. Congress, as he seeks ammunition to deal with a "stillfragile" financial system. [ID:nN12357834] Standard & Poor's revised its outlook on New Zealand'sforeign currency rating to negative from stable on Tuesdayciting in part the government's "sizeable" current accountdeficit The New Zealand Kiwi tumbling 1.6 percent to $0.5650 NZD=D4. The action follows S&P warnings on Spain, Ireland andGreence over the past several days.

[ID:nLC477283] Concerns over weakening global demand sent U.S . crudefutures down 32 cents to $37.27 a barrel, extending a $3.24slide on Monday . Lower-risk assets perceived as being havens for investorsin tougher times rallied on Tuesday, with government bondsgaining, sending yields lower . The benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yieldJP10YTN=JBTC fell 4.5 basis points to 1.240 percent, movingtowards a five-year low of 1.155 percent hit in late December . March 10-year JGB futures climbed 0.88 point from Friday'sclose to 139.80 2JGBv1. A rise above 140.15 would takefutures to their highest since mid-September. However, credit markets are offering a signal thatinvestors have become more willing to add risk to theirportfolios in the new year.

KEXIM on Monday raised $2 billion in five-year bonds afterpricing the debt with a coupon of 8.125 percent and a spread of677.7 basis points over equivalent U.S Treasuries . Thatfollows Philippines sale of $1.5 billion of newdollar-denominated debt last week . [ID:nHKG110421] Offshore bond sales from Asia have been largely frozensince the collapse of investment bank Pehman Brothers inSeptember (Editing by Kim Coghill) Stocks China . Wow, wow, wow!!!Scandals and Controversy are everywhere, but apparently for college football it is becoming more and more prevalent.I have composed a top ten list of College Football's Scandals, including everything from Florida's 24 arrests,to Alabama's Textbook Scandal, to the newest Tennessee Volunteer players being charged with robbery.Who will make it to #1?? . Alabama's program got rocked in 2003 when allegations of playing ineligible players and paying strippers to entertain recruits.This resulted in the firing of head coach, Mike Price just four months after he took the position. Since the last national title in 1992, the school has been hit with NCAA sanctions twice, including three years of bowl bans and the loss of 34 scholarships. On 03/03/1987 the news hit Texas like a ton of bricks.SMU was being canceled for the entire season and only away games for the following year.They had already been put on three years of probation for recruiting violations, seven times more than any team in their division.

An investigation found that 21 players received approximately $61,000 in cash payments with the assistance of athletic department staff members from a slush fund provided by a booster . Payments ranged from $50 to $725 per month and started only a month after SMU went on its original probation (though it later emerged that a slush fund had been maintained in one form or another since the mid-1970s) . Also, SMU officials lied to NCAA officials about when the payments stopped. . In 2004, University of Colorado football program was brought under some not so flattering light.Three women who say they were raped in 2001 by Colorado football players or recruits at, or after, an off-campus party in the Boulder, CO, area filed federal lawsuits under Title IX . The women allege that Colorado fostered an atmosphere hostile to women in its football program by countenancing parties for recruits at which there was an expectation of sexual favors..