Securities

By Nate Raymond June 7 (Reuters) - A former executive of InterMune Inc has agreed to pay $616,000 to settle claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he illegally tipped a friend in 2010 of the status of a regulatory review for its...

* Investors fixed on Friday's U.S. jobs data * Copper falls over 2 pct as demand woes offset supply cuts NEW YORK, June 6 (Reuters) - Gold rose 1 percent in a late recovery on Thursday as the dollar fell sharply against the yen and the euro on fears of...

The conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was eager for publicity in September 2011 when it sued 17 financial institutions, accusing them of ripping off the two government-backed housing financiers. It isn't so enthusiastic anymore. Last week the U....

By Danielle Robinson June 3 (IFR) - EMC Corp turned to the bond markets to raise money for the first time on Monday, selling US$5.5 billion in debt to help fund an expanded share buyback program. Much as Apple did in April, data storage equipment...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve could reduce its massive bond-buying stimulus this summer, two top central bank policymakers said on Monday, although any such decision depends on continued improvement in the economy. Dialing back the Fed's current...

May 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday said the Obama administration was suspending investments in the Government Securities Investment fund, the largest of its cash-management tools to stay under the debt limit. The move allows...

Citigroup Inc. has reached a settlement in a suit involving $3.5 billion of mortgage-backed securities, a court filing said Tuesday. The deal with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which accused the bank of misleading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into...

NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc has reached a settlement of lawsuit by a federal agency accusing the bank of misleading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into buying $3.5 billion of mortgage-backed securities, a court filing said Tuesday. The...

NEW YORK — Nasdaq OMX Group will pay $10 million for botching Facebook's initial public stock offering last year, a debacle that shook investors' confidence in Wall Street. Nasdaq's penalty would be the biggest ever paid by an exchange, said the...

A former senior partner at accounting firm KPMG's Los Angeles office has agreed to plead guilty to a securities fraud charge of passing inside information about the firm's clients to a friend, who used it to make more than $1 million in stock trades....