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Fox reports higher profit, insists no deals in the works
August 7th, 2014
Twenty-First Century Fox Inc, the film and TV company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, reported a quarterly profit that beat Wall Street’s expectations as executives stressed that they would not make a new bid for Time Warner Inc. Fox on ...
Bank of America, U.S. near record $17B settlement
August 7th, 2014
The Department of Justice and Bank of America have reached a record settlement in principle in which the bank will pay just under $17 billion to resolve allegations related to fraudulent marketing of mortgage-backed securities that helped cause the ...
Judge Rakoff Says 2011 S.E.C. Deal With Citigroup Can Close
August 6th, 2014
The settlement that just wouldn’t settle — Citigroup’s 2011 deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission — has finally cleared its last hurdle. Judge Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court in Manhattan, who initially rejected the $285 million ...
Big Banks’ ‘Living Wills’ Get Failing Grade
August 6th, 2014
Wall Street banks spent two years asking U.S. regulators what they should put in hypothetical bankruptcy plans to prove they aren’t “too big to fail.” The agencies broke their silence yesterday with a grade: Fail. The Federal Reserve and ...
NZ stocks join global sell-off
August 6th, 2014
New Zealand shares have eased back in a global sell-off as rising geo-political tensions and falling dairy prices took confidence out of the market. THE NZX 50 Index fell 11.936 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 5092.227 on Wednesday. ...
Sprint, T-Mobile call off merger plans
August 6th, 2014
Sprint is expected to announce Wednesday that its sought-after merger with T-Mobile is off. The wireless carrier and its parent company, Softbank, decided that regulatory hurdles were too high, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with ...
Tax Inversion: What’s the Real Story?
August 5th, 2014
Tax inversion is turning the country inside out. Although the rhetoric flying back and forth is complex, the basic premise is actually quite simple: Multi-national corporations that are reaping profits after taking advantage of favorable U.S. laws are relocating ...
Investors Cheer Portuguese Bank Rescue
August 4th, 2014
Investors breathed a sigh of relief on Monday after Portugal prevented the collapse of one of its biggest banks, putting some life back into European stocks following last week’s slide and pushing bond yields lower across the board. Lisbon ...
Tokyo Police to launch Investigation into Missing Mt. Gox Bitcoin
August 4th, 2014
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has launched an official investigation into possible illicit activity surrounding the closure of Japan-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. The news comes roughly five months after the bitcoin exchange reported it lost roughly 744,400 BTC ...
P&G shares rise as profit beats estimates
August 1st, 2014
Procter & Gamble reported Friday a $11.6 billion profit for the fiscal year ended June 30 – up 3 percent from the same time last year. Sales rose 1 percent to $83.1 billion. Earnings beat analyst expectations, but sales ...
