Short Selling Rules In U.S. Have Australians Steamed
Australian hedge fund players have come out swinging against the United States' efforts to curb short selling, arguing that hedge funds are being targ...
Australian hedge fund players have come out swinging against the United States' efforts to curb short selling, arguing that hedge funds are being targ...
DealBook | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business
In some corners of Wall Street and Washington, short sellers have become about as unpopular as Red Sox fans at Yankee Stadium. Short sellers, who bet...
Danny Schechter | Posted 07.12.2008 | Business
As housing implodes, is our nation at an economic tipping point?
New York Times | Tim Arango | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business
On May 14, 2001, Joseph A. Ripp, the newly appointed chief financial officer of America Online, faxed a letter to the Las Vegas offices of the account...
Henry Blodget | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business
Our regulatory systems and enforcement can always be improved. But let's be honest about what's really going on here.
New York Times | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
The NYT reports: The Bush administration on Monday rolled out the broadest overhaul of Wall Street regulation since the Great Depression, presenting...
Business Week | Michael Mandel | Posted 03.30.2008 | Business
Let's see. In the middle of perhaps the greatest financial upheaval since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is proposing a change ...
New York Times | Julie Cresswell | Posted 03.30.2008 | Business
Like so many of the over-the-top birthday parties that typically appear on "My Super Sweet 16" on MTV, Ariel's celebration took the fairy-tale-princes...
New York Times | By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and FLOYD NORRIS | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business
The Bush administration is proposing the broadest overhaul of Wall Street regulation since the Great Depression. But the plan, to be unveiled on Monda...
Bloomberg | David Scheer and Yalman Onaran | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
U.S. regulators are investigating whether traders spread false rumors about Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s financial soundness to profit from a drop ...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 03.23.2008 | Business
Our financial system and overall economy prospered on massive innovation, leverage and deregulation. All three are either stalled or running in reverse.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 03.23.2008 | Business
If we really want to modernize the American financial system, we need a single government entity in Washington to oversee it and enforce capital adequacy requirements on all financial institutions.
Harry Fuller | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business
This is the latest in terror tactics: give me money or I blow my corporation up. The U.S. hasn't been this pathetic since Katrina.
Reuters | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business
Visa Inc, the world's largest credit card network, on Tuesday raised $17.9 billion in an initial public offering, the largest-ever U.S. IPO. San Fran...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business
The Fed has responded with lower interest rates and bailouts of overstretched Wall Street firms. How should the Congress and the next president be responding?
CNBC | Josh Funk | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business
At Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the chief financial officer again brought home more compensation last year than the two billionaires who run the company. ...
AP | Posted 03.09.2008 | Business
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo Inc. increased two top executives' bonuses last year amid a deepening slump that set the stage for Microsoft Corp.'s u...
Los Angeles Times | Walter Hamilton | Posted 03.06.2008 | Business
In a case that could sully the reputation of legendary Fidelity Investments fund manager Peter Lynch, regulators said Wednesday that he had improperly...
New York Post | Brian Garrity | Posted 02.26.2008 | Business
Harbinger Capital Partners is tightening its grip on the New York Times and Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. The investment firm yesterday rais...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business
On Monday, Visa announced that it was looking to raise $19 billion from its initial public offering (IPO), which would make it the largest in U.S. his...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business
Banks have moved from a hands-off attitude toward regulation to a plea for Congress to lend a hand.
Reuters Via USA Today | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business
Citigroup (C) awarded Chief Executive Vikram Pandit $26.7 million worth of shares and 3 million stock options six weeks after he took over the largest...
New York Times | MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Posted 01.04.2008 | Business
A former Goldman Sachs associate who was accused of masterminding one of the broadest insider-trading conspiracies in years was sentenced on Thursday ...
Sunil Chacko | Posted 01.02.2008 | Business
Today, the world's sovereign wealth funds are significantly larger than all of the world's hedge funds combined.
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
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According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
DealBook | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business