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US authorities have started investigating the lending practices at Beazer Homes USA Inc., BusinessWeek reported on Tuesday. The news sent a shock wave to the stock market sending shares of the sixth largest U.S. home builder almost 17 percent lower....
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A CNN-owned Web site called iReport.com, which publishes reports written by ordinary citizens, said Friday it will give the Securities and Exchange Commission...
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Federal regulators on Wednesday extended an unprecedented ban against all short-selling in the shares of more than 800 financial companies, keeping it in place at least...
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The government says it is extending its unprecedented ban against all short-selling in the shares of more than 800 financial companies.
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The government’s unprecedented move Friday to ban people from betting against financial stocks might be a salve for the market’s turmoil but could also...
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Federal securities regulators, in an effort to boost investor confidence in the face of a market crisis, took the dramatic step Friday of temporarily banning the...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken the dramatic step of temporarily banning the routine practice of betting against company stocks.
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Amid the spiraling market crisis and mounting pressure from lawmakers, the Securities and Exchange Commission is considering taking the dramatic step of temporarily...
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Federal regulators on Wednesday took measures aimed at reining in aggressive forms of short-selling that were blamed in part for the demise of Lehman Brothers and which...
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With Wall Street engulfed in crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission is planning measures to rein in aggressive forms of short-selling that were blamed in part...
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General Electric Co. says it has been informed that the Securities and Exchange Commission may recommend fines and other action for possible violations of securities...
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A former Wall Street broker pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he and a colleague duped investors into purchasing more than $1 billion in high-risk securities by...
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Federal prosecutors and regulators on Wednesday accused two former Wall Street brokers of defrauding customers by making more than $1 billion in unauthorized purchases...
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Federal regulators are accusing two Wall Street brokers of defrauding their customers by making more than $1 billion in unauthorized purchases of securities tied to...
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Federal regulators on Wednesday proposed a plan to allow public companies to begin using international accounting standards for reporting financial results in two...
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Federal regulators said Friday that investors who bought risky auction-rate securities from Merrill Lynch & Co. before the market for those bonds collapsed will be...
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Federal regulators say Merrill Lynch & Co. will buy back up to $7 billion in auction-rate securities over its role in selling the risky bonds to retail investors.
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The former top attorney at Apple Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle federal regulators’ charges that she altered company records to conceal...
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The Southeastern Conference has agreed to a 15-year contract extension with CBS Sports to broadcast football and basketball games.
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Computer hardware and software distributor Insight Enterprises Inc. said Wednesday the Securities and Exchange Commission has completed an investigation into its stock...
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A government order expires Tuesday that temporarily banned a certain kind of short-selling of the stocks of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and 17...
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The US Supreme Court on Monday revitalized some tobacco lawsuits when it declined to permit Philip Morris, the big US cigarette maker, to fight cases involving...
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Re-launching one of the most shocking chapters of post-Soviet era, Russia has sued Bank of New York Co. for $22.5 billion for its role in a money-laundering design that...
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The Swiss authorities have launched a criminal investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption surrounding Britain’s biggest defense firm, BAE Systems....
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Morgan Stanley, the world’s second- largest securities firm, has agreed to pay $8 million to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is contemplating recommending a civil enforcement action against a unit of Britain’s Barclays PLC for debt trading that was...
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The beleaguered chief of engineering group Siemens, Klaus Kleinfeld, has said that he will stand down later this year. Kleinfeld, who is under pressure because of...
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US securities regulators have declared on Tuesday that they would bring no civil charges against Apple over the backdating of executive stock options. However, they...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to file securities-fraud charges almost immediately against two former Apple executives including general counsel...
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A human-rights group has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo Inc. for purportedly making available information to the Chinese government that led to the persecution, torture...
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Software giant Microsoft has agreed to pay $180 million to settle claims by Iowa consumers who contended they were overcharged for company products purchased between...
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In an interesting development, frustrated Take-Two Interactive shareholders ousted five of six board members up for re-election, including the chief executive, who was...
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Dell, one of the world’s largest makers of personal computers, has revealed that it found evidences of misconduct and errors in its accounting in the middle of...
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Texas regulators could fine TXU Corp. $210 million for manipulating the state’s electricity market in the summer of 2005, under a staff proposal issued on...
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The chief executive of French oil and gas group Total Christophe de Margerie was brought under formal investigation for alleged corruption, under a criminal probe into...
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Oracle Corp. has recently filed lawsuit against its competitor SAP on the allegations that its German competitor has clandestinely and illegally acquired proprietary...
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Walt Disney Co. has confirmed that options at Pixar Inc. were backdated before its takeover of the computer-animation studio. However, it has said that no one now...
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has said that an investigation by his office has revealed widespread, questionable financial arrangements among student-loan...
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Trials against the fallen newspaper magnate, Conrad Black, began yesterday in Chicago. Black is accused of pillaging $80 million from his Hollinger media empire, which...
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The California Attorney General’s office on Wednesday dismissed all charges against the former HP chairman, Patricia Dunn, who was last year forced to resign...
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