Another stock with consistent attributes that appears today on our radar screen at the seemingly right price is Valley National Bancorp (VLY), which was chartered in 1927 and is headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey.

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Right now, the Fed supervises some 5, 000 bank holding companies, 850 state-chartered banks and foreign banks operating in the U.S., and it has broad oversight of large financial firms.

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Barbara Band, vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, said the report showed the importance of "guiding children to the right reading".

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