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U.S. Stock Futures Are Little Changed Before Output Data
September 2nd, 2014
U.S. stock-index futures were little changed, after the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index recorded its biggest monthly gain since February, before data that may show manufacturing in the world’s biggest economy continued to expand in August. Apple Inc. and ...
CFTC Charges California Resident Ralph Metters with Forex Fraud
September 1st, 2014
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that Judge Manuel L. Real of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered on August 27, 2014 an emergency Order freezing and preserving assets under the ...
ASIC publishes first report on corporate finance regulation
August 29th, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has today published the first of a series of regular reports it intends issuing on the regulation of corporate finance issues in Australia. The report, which covers the period January to June ...
Nation of Privilege Versus Rule of Law
August 29th, 2014
These days, the word “privilege” has been reduced to a trite buzzword. That’s a shame, because it used to mean more than just being born into advantageous circumstances. The word, which means “private law” in old French, originally referred ...
Ford, IBM win dismissal of 12-year lawsuit over apartheid abuses
August 29th, 2014
A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed a 12-year-old lawsuit accusing Ford Motor Co (F.N) and IBM Corp (IBM.N) of encouraging human rights abuses in apartheid-era South Africa, reluctantly concluding that the case does not belong in U.S. courts. U.S. ...
$2.4 Billion Invested in Chinese Bad-debt Company
August 28th, 2014
China’s biggest manager of bad debt said on Thursday that it had attracted about $2.4 billion from eight investors, including Goldman Sachs and Warburg Pincus, before an expected initial public offering here. China Huarong Asset Management, the biggest of ...
Arab Bank Questions Hamas Links in Terror-Funding Trial
August 28th, 2014
Arab Bank Plc, accused in a U.S. trial of helping finance suicide bombings in and near Israel by processing transactions to benefit Hamas, sought to cast doubt on victims’ claims the attacks were caused by the Palestinian militant group. ...
Keeping Corporate Lawyers Silent Can Shelter Wrongdoing
August 27th, 2014
Have you heard of Maritza I. Munich? The answer is almost certainly no, yet she is a central figure in Walmart’s unfolding bribery scandal. Ms. Munich was a Walmart lawyer who advocated an aggressive response to investigating the scandal ...
Kleiner to invest in Snapchat at near-$10 billion valuation
August 27th, 2014
Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer has agreed to invest in fast-growing messaging startup Snapchat at a valuation close to $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The ...
AT&T merges wireless and business units led by de la Vega
August 27th, 2014
AT&T Inc is merging its wireless and business divisions into a single unit led by Ralph de la Vega, former chief executive of the company’s wireless segment, a spokesman for AT&T said on Tuesday. The announcement comes as cable ...
