user: Investing on LendingClub just got easier
Lending Club founder and CEO Renaud Laplanche rings a ceremonial bell to begin trading during the company's IPO on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Dec. 11, 2014.

One company is aiming to make peer-to-peer lending much easier.

LendingRobot, the automated investment service for peer-to-peer lending, introduced its new feature Thursday: fully automated loan transactions on the LendingClub secondary market.

LendingClub is an online marketplace for loans that directly connects borrowers with investors. When an investor wants to invest in LendingClub loans, the client will open an account and build a portfolio of diversified loans by putting as little as $50 in each loan, creating hundreds of investments for the client to manage.

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With its new service, LendingRobot automatically lists, prices and reprices loans made on the platform, and reinvests income into the loans with the highest potential return available at any given time on LendingClub.

Compare that to what you would have to do before: Go to the LendingClub website, see what could be 50,000 different notes and from there, check one by one the investments you want to sell. And you would have to price all of those loans yourself.

"If there's one problem, it's the lack of liquidity," said co-founder and CEO Emmanuel Marot in an interview. "If you want your money back, you have to wait a while to get it back."
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This company will automate your LendingClub secondary market investments
Shoddy defense D-backs' demise in Philly
Updated JUL 27, 2014 7:57p ET

PHILADELPHIA -- The new rule designed to protect catchers helped the Philadelphia Phillies gain a victory.

Ryan Howard homered in his second game since a three-game benching and scored the go-ahead run on an overturned call at the plate in Philadelphia's 4-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.

Arizona's Miguel Montero was called for blocking the plate before he had the ball and leaving Howard no path, a violation of an experimental rule put in place this season.

"What am I supposed to do? Leave the ball go and get it, or stand still?" Montero recalled telling umpires. "The throw took me there. I went and got the ball. I have no clue where to go on this kind of a play.

I'd much rather be run over. It's an awkward rule. Let the game alone. It's been this way for 100 years. It's kind of not fun anymore."

With the score 2-2 in the sixth, Howard walked with two outs against Vidal Nuno (0-2). Marlon Byrd popped up to short right field, where second baseman Didi Gregorius backpedaled slowly, settled under the ball and allowed it to kick off his glove and bounce toward center.

Ender Inciarte picked up the ball and threw to the plate, where Montero was blocking Howard's path, grabbed the throw on the fly and tagged the runner as Howard tried to get around him on the infield side.

Umpire Dale Scott signaled out, but after a review of 2 minutes, 55 seconds, Howard was ruled safe.

That interpretation of collision rule missed spirit of the rule. Howard had no path. But when you're out by 20 feet you can't be called safe

"This year that's a run," said Philadelphia manager Ryne Sandberg, who called his team "very fortunate."

"In the last 100 years, it's not a run," he said.

Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson, who came onto to the field to speak with Scott after the video review, said "the rule has to be reevaluated."

"I didn't think they got the play right," Gibson said.

In the first season of expanded video review, the plate-blocking rule has been among the most contentious of the innovations.

"There's a lot of judgment there and a little bit of confusion," Sandberg said. "Even 3-1/2 months into the season, here the catcher did not know that he couldn't stand there the whole time. And then, ultimately, Howard didn't know his responsibilities as he got to home plate."

Howard hit a two-run homer in the first, his 16th of the season but second since June 19. He is 3 for 8 since his benching.

"These are a couple of games he can build on and continue to contribute and improve and help the team out," Sandberg said.

Philadelphia added a run in the seventh when left fielder David Peralta dropped Ben Revere's fly to the warning track, and Montero was given an error for dropping shortstop Nick Ahmed's throw and allowing Wil Nieves to score.

Montero admitted the earlier play at the plate had an effect on him in the seventh.

"I thought, 'What should I do?'" he said. "They make it very hard."

Roberto Hernandez (5-8) allowed two runs and four hits in seven innings. He had been 0-5 in seven home starts since beating Washington 1-0 on May 4.

"He got groundballs when he needed them, and he threw enough pitches around the zone and got some hitters to swing the bat," Sandberg said.

Jonathan Papelbon pitched a two-hit ninth for his 25th save in 28 chances.

Nuno, making his fourth start since he was acquired from the New York Yankees, gave up four runs -- two earned -- four hits and three walks in 6-2/3 innings.

Nick Ahmed doubled in a run for Arizona in the second, and Paul Goldschmidt hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth.

Arizona's Aaron Hill didn't play after being hit on the right hand on Saturday night.
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Ryan Howard scored the go-ahead run on an overturned call at the plate in the Phillies' 4-2 win over the Diamondbacks on Sunday.
Gingrich: Obama is 'the anti-Clinton'
Hey, what's a little impeachment between old acquaintances?

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who helped lead the 1998 impeachment effort against President Bill Clinton, contrasted him favorably today to incumbent President Obama.

"Obama is the anti-Clinton," Gingrich told reporters on a conference call sponsored by the Republican National Committee.

"Clinton was trying to move the party to the center," he said. "Obama has moved it to the left."

Gingrich said that Clinton's speaking gig at next month's Democratic convention is "one of the most delicious examples of irony in modern times."

Said Gingrich: "I hope that every American when they watch Bill Clinton speak, will realize how much weaker and ineffective as president Obama is than the man that is nominating him was."

Gingrich went on the call to defend a new Mitt Romney ad attacking Obama over adjustments to the 1996 welfare overhaul law -- an ad Clinton called untrue, as we reported this morning.

"I just want to say one last thing to Clinton being the nominating speaker at the Democratic National Convention which I think is one of the most delicious examples of irony in modern times. Bill Clinton as the Governor of Arkansas learned that you have to negotiate with the legislative branch, much of as he would have liked to get around the Constitution.

He was actually pretty prepared to work with us and we negotiated very long and hard to get welfare reform done. We negotiated for two and a half years to get the balanced budget done in '97 done.

There is just a remarkable difference between Clinton and Obama and I actually think in many ways ... that Obama is the anti-Clinton. Clinton was trying to move the Party to the center, Obama has moved it to the Left.

Clinton balanced the budget with the policies we implemented in '97 led to four straight balanced budgets, Obama has had the largest deficits in American history. Clinton worked with the legislature in a bipartisan basis, Obama has tried to use Executive Authority in ways I think are unconstitutional.

It really is kind of remarkable. And I hope that every American when they watch Bill Clinton speak, will realize how much weaker and ineffective as president Obama is than the man that is nominating him was."
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assistant: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich says Bill Clinton "was trying to move the party to the center. Obama has moved it to the left."