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	<title>The Commercial Finance Blog &#187; Commercial Finance</title>
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		<title>Piper Jaffray starts $300 million dollar commercial paper program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LJ Miehe</dc:creator>
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Piper Jaffray Companies plans to start a $300 million commercial paper program, the investment bank said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.The program will in part fund Piper Jaffray&#8217;s securities portfolio and provide general working capital, the filing said.
Piper Jaffray, which caters to small and mid-size business customers, is recovering from five consecutive quarters of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. commercial paper down $1.7 billlion to lowest level in about 4 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LJ Miehe</dc:creator>
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Editor&#8217;s Note:   I disagree with Mr. Stone&#8217;s comment that the reduction in the commercial paper market is &#8221;I think largely it is for other reasons,&#8221;  with the Federal Reserve still the major lending in many of the financial markets.  We can not say that it is for other reasons until all these bailout programs are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks must turn the credit taps back on, and quickly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LJ Miehe</dc:creator>
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The credit crisis is squeezing the life out of small business. How do I know? Well I&#8217;m the chief executive of the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers, and my members raise capital for job-creating entrepreneurs who do not have access to the money markets.
In the past 18 months I have seen the pool of [...]]]></description>
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