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MF Global Settlement, recovery of 93 percent of missing money
Washington, DC - Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, issued the following statement on the settlement deal approved by a bankruptcy court judge that paves the way for customers of the...Tags: Washington, DC, Financial Markets, MF Global, U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Bankruptcy
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Northern Crops Institute announces 2013 short course schedule
Pasta Production and Technology April 16-18, 2013 Fee: $900 This course provides fundamental and applied aspects of manufacturing extruded and sheeted pasta products. Raw material quality criteria, specifications, and processing variables and...Tags: Financial Markets, Pasta, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Marketing
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Is S&P to blame?
Federal and state prosecutors sued the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's this week for allegedly defrauding investors by giving inflated ratings to complex mortgage-backed securities that proved all but worthless after the housing bubble burst. The...
Tags: Mortgages, Prosecution, Finance, Derivative Securities, Crime, Law and Justice
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California accuses S&P of deception in $4-billion lawsuit
California has filed suit against Wall Street's biggest credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, charging the firm with violating the state's False Claims Act by using “magic numbers” and “guesses” to inflate ratings that...
Tags: Mortgages, Bonds, BP Plc, Pension and Welfare, Finance
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Morgan Stanley's Farcical Facebook Settlement
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin this week accused Morgan Stanley of breaking the law as lead underwriter in Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, triggering a $5 million fine. What had Morgan Stanley done wrong? The...
Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Financing and Stock Offerings, Social Media, Media Industry, Banking
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Ex-Angels player Doug DeCinces indicted in insider-trading case
L.A. NOWFormer Angles baseball player Doug DeCinces and three others were indicted on insider trading charges for allegedly using non-public information to buy stock in a Santa Ana medical device company, federal authorities said Wednesday afternoon.... -
Freddie Mac: 30-year mortgage rate hits 3.4%, highest in 8 weeks
With employment improving and the fiscal cliff averted, fixed mortgage rates have jumped to their highest level in two months, with lenders offering the 30-year home loan at 3.4% this week, up from 3.34% last week, according to Freddie Mac. The...Tags: Freddie Mac, Mortgages, Bonds, Financial Markets, Labor Markets
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Corporations and execs need penalties that hurt
If you're concerned about corporate crime, 2012 looked like a pretty successful year for the good guys. The Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen paid $762 million in fines and penalties and pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to illegal marketing of...
Tags: Court Preliminary, Fines, Amgen Inc., BP Plc, Finance
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Fed's easy money will eventually trigger inflation
Bar the door, Nelly — the Fed has abandoned all restraint and will now print money to finance the federal deficit. To support the weak recovery, the Federal Reserve continues to keep short-term interest rates near zero, purchase mortgage-backed...Tags: Mortgages, Financial Markets, Banking, Inflation and Deflation, Ben Bernanke
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Fed renews stimulus efforts, ties interest rates to jobless rate
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve, maintaining its aggressive efforts to stimulate a slow-growing economy burdened by high unemployment, said it would continue its large-scale bond-buying programs in the new year and, for the first time, announced...Tags: Mortgages, Bonds, Inflation and Deflation, Ben Bernanke, Unemployment
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T. Rowe Price, Legg Mason get approval to launch active ETFs
Baltimore-based money managers T. Rowe Price and Legg Mason Inc. may offer actively managed exchange-traded funds after receiving a thumbs up from regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission approved Price's application earlier this month to be...
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Durham sentenced to 50 years in prison for investment scam
Reality caught up with disgraced Indianapolis financier Tim Durham Friday afternoon. A judge sentenced him to 50 years in prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme that took more than $250 million from investors. Standing before federal Judge Jane Magnus-...
Tags: Punishment, Prosecution, Economy, Business and Finance, Prisons, Finance
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