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Short Selling Rules Expire Today
Reuters | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business
Last month, the SEC imposed a temporary rule that requires investors to borrow stock before executing a short sale in 19 major Wall Street firms such ...
Twitter: Fortune, SEC Discover The Web Craze
Footnoted, Fortune | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business
Fortune is trying valiantly here to translate Twitter into the language of its readers, but there's only so much one magazine can do with a start-up t...
SEC's Covered Bonds: How Will They Help?
DealBreaker | John Carney | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business
The New York Sun has the clearest explanation of covered bond that we've seen. A covered bond offers the holder what is known as a dual recourse....
Naked Short-Selling Ban Extended Through August 12 -- But That's It
AP | RICHARD JACOBSEN | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business
Federal regulators on Tuesday extended through mid-August a temporary order banning a certain kind of short-selling of the stocks of mortgage finance ...
Short-Selling Protection Expanded Could Hurt Computerized Trading: Report
Wall Street Journal | Jenny Strasburg, Kara Scannell and Randall Smith | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business
The rules appear to have had their intended effect of halting the slide in shares of financial companies such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Lehman Br...
Short Selling Rules In U.S. Have Australians Steamed
DealBook | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business
Australian hedge fund players have come out swinging against the United States' efforts to curb short selling, arguing that hedge funds are being targ...
SEC Prohibits Some Short Selling
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...
Freddie Mac, When Are You Coming Back?
Danny Schechter | Posted 07.12.2008 | Business
As housing implodes, is our nation at an economic tipping point?
AOL Whistle-Blower Becomes SEC Target
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...
What All These Cries For "More Regulation!" Actually Mean
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.
Paulson's Plan In A Nutshell
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...
Why The Paulson Plan Is DOA
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 ...
Super Sweet Fraud? MTV Show Helps S.E.C. Target Oilman
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...
Bush Administration To Unveil Broadest Overhaul Of Wall Street Regulation Since Great Depression
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...
SEC Investigating Trading In Lehman Brothers Stock
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 ...
Lain Bear
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.
The Bankers Panic of 2008 -- New Regulation
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.
Terrorists On Wall Street
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.
Visa's $17.9 Billion IPO Breaks Records
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...
The Bankers Panic of 2008
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?
Bershire CFO Gets More Compensation Than Buffett
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. ...
2 Top Yahoo Execs Get Bigger Bonuses
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...
Fidelity's Lynch Took $16,000 Worth Of Freebies
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...
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barack Obama made his first direct criticism of Republican vice...
A visibly upset Keith Olbermann apologized to viewers Thursday...
A John McCain campaign aide tells Jay Carney that she sees no reason why Sarah Palin should have to...
I thought McCain was the next Bush. I said so, like countless others, on this...
On July 20, 2008, the pastor of...
Sarah Palin's churches are actively involved in a...
On Sunday, McClatchy Newspapers published a story on Sen. John McCain's oft-discussed temper, detailing...
Oprah Winfrey, who made the first political endorsement of her life this year in...
As Cindy McCain came under criticism for wearing an outfit that some estimate was...
This campaign season, Republicans have been using a lot of songs from artists...
WASHINGTON — The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as...
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Posted 08.22.2008 | Business