Finance Chronicle

Campaign finance reform comes around every once in a while and if lawmakers at every level wanted to make real changes, they could, but don’t. Sometimes the solutions are easy but because the results affect them, they have a problem implementing any change.

Doris “Granny D” Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died.

Doris “Granny D” Haddock, the New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance changes has died. She was 100.

LONDON – Nationalised mortgage lender Northern Rock’s headline losses shrank in 2009, helped by rising net interest income and lower loan losses in the second half, though it said loan writedowns would stay high in 2010.

FRANKFORT — State Finance and Administration Secretary Jonathan Miller is soliciting campaign

DUBLIN, NH– A New Hampshire woman who was known as Granny D and walked across the country a decade ago to publicize the need for campaign finance reform has died.

Doris “Granny D” Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country a decade ago to publicize the need for campaign finance reform and hasn’t let up since, has died. She was 100.

NEW YORK — Shares of some top finance companies were mixed at the close of trading: Bank of America rose $.06 or .4 percent, to $16.80.

NEW YORK — Shares of some top finance companies are mixed at noon: Bank of America rose $.14 or .8 percent, to $16.88. Citigroup rose $.21 or 5.8 percent, to $3.77. JPMorgan Chase fell $.08 or .2 percent, to $42.51.

Automotive finance company GMAC Financial Services will lose its chief financial officer to a private equity firm by the end of March, the company said Tuesday.