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Companies sign secret tax deals with Luxembourg: report
November 6th, 2014
More than 300 companies, including PepsiCo Inc(PEP.N), AIG Inc (AIG.N) and Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE), secured secret deals from Luxembourg to slash their tax bills, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) reported, quoting leaked documents. The companies appear to have ...
SEC fines 13 firms over sale of Puerto Rico junk bonds
November 4th, 2014
Units of 13 major Wall Street firms, including JPMorgan and UBS, improperly sold bonds from Puerto Rico’s landmark March junk deal to retail investors who may not have understood the debt’s riskiness, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said ...
P&G Suit, Apple, U.K. Museums, GE: Intellectual Property
November 4th, 2014
Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) has settled a patent-infringement case with makers and distributors of tooth-whitening strips, according to an Oct. 31 filing in federal court in Cincinnati. In the filing, the parties agreed that tooth-whitening strips made by ...
JPMorgan: Feds pursue criminal forex probe
November 4th, 2014
JPMorgan said it faces a criminal probe of its foreign exchange business and boosted its legal budget by $1.3B. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) disclosed Monday that the New York-based global bank is in talks with the Department of Justice over ...
Citigroup’s $600M about-face
October 31st, 2014
Citigroup restated its previously released third-quarter profit report by $600 million Citigroup stunned investors late Thursday when it cut its third-quarter earnings by $600 million, blaming an increase in allowances for legal expenses. The global banking giant said the ...
Sterling Lads Chats Show FX Traders Matching Fix Orders
October 30th, 2014
“Any fix quid?” a currency trader at Barclays Plc asked a counterpart at HSBC Holdings Plc at 2:25 p.m. on June 23, 2011. “Get 50 cable on fix,” he said as he tried to sell British pounds. “Nothing as ...
Barclays Third-Quarter Profit jumps, sets aside FX probe
October 30th, 2014
Barclays Plc (BARC), the U.K.’s second biggest bank by assets, said third-quarter profit unexpectedly rose in the third quarter as the bank set aside 500 million pounds ($799 million) to settle probes into currency markets. Adjusted pretax profit rose ...
SEC probing private equity performance figures
October 29th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining how private equity firms report a key metric of their past performance when they market new funds to investors, as the regulator boosts its scrutiny of the industry, according to people ...
Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent
October 22nd, 2014
The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent. Inflation in ...
I.M.F. warns of Global Financial Risk
October 13th, 2014
Policy makers at a meeting of the International Monetary Fund said that high debt in China and a lack of spending in Europe, among other factors, could provoke a market convulsion. A more immediate concern drew the attention of ...
