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China banks seek new lending horizons as bad debts rise
September 1st, 2014
China’s biggest banks are turning their back on mainstay borrowers like manufacturers and courting high growth industries such as healthcare, food and IT in a bid to boost revenue. For the first half of this year, the banks reported ...
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. ...
Bringing It Back Home
August 28th, 2014
An increasing number of American companies are making plans to shift their headquarters to Europe. These so-called “inversions” would reduce these companies’ total tax bill by allowing them to escape from the United States’ uniquely unfavorable corporate tax rules. ...
PwC must face $1 billion lawsuit over MF Global advice
August 28th, 2014
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered PricewaterhouseCoopers to face a $1 billion (603 million pounds)lawsuit claiming that its bad accounting advice was a substantial cause of the October 2011 bankruptcy of MF Global Holdings Ltd, a brokerage run by ...
Tyson wins U.S. Justice Dept antitrust nod for Hillshire deal
August 28th, 2014
Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N), the largest U.S. meat processor, on Wednesday won U.S. antitrust approval for its $8.5 billion purchase of Hillshire Brands Co (HSH.N). To win approval for the merger, the companies agreed to sell Heinold Hog Markets, ...
I.M.F. Chief, Lagarde, Under Investigation in France
August 27th, 2014
Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, said on Wednesday that French prosecutors had placed her under formal investigation over a murky business affair that dates to her time as finance minister under former President Nicolas Sarkozy. ...
Detroit, hold-out creditors must go to bankruptcy mediation: judge
August 27th, 2014
Detroit and its major hold-out creditors were ordered on Tuesday into mediation, just a week before a key federal court hearing is to start in the city’s historic bankruptcy case. The move followed a Monday hearing before U.S. Bankruptcy ...
U.S. loses bid to dismiss ex-AIG CEO’s $25 billion lawsuit over bailout
August 27th, 2014
A federal judge has rejected the United States’ bid to dismiss a more than $25 billion lawsuit filed by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the former chief executive of American International Group Inc, over the insurer’s government bailout, clearing the way ...
Hedge Funds Sue to Get Argentine Bond Payment in London
August 26th, 2014
A group of hedge funds, including George Soros’s Quantum Partners and J. Kyle Bass’s Hayman Capital, is seeking a 226 million euro interest payment on Argentine bonds from Bank of New York Mellon that was blocked by a United ...
U.S. confident its $5 billion S&P lawsuit was not retaliation
August 26th, 2014
The United States, which is suing Standard & Poor’s for $5 billion over its credit ratings, said on Monday it is confident that documents the rating agency wants for its defense will not show that the lawsuit was filed ...
