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By Alex Wayne and Drew Armstrong |
April 17, 2013
A U.S. senator’s review of a possible leak of market-moving info has stalled over a gray area of law and regulation.
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By Drew Armstrong |
April 4, 2013
A surge in insurance stocks before the official government announcement on new Medicare rates is shining a spotlight on insider relationships.
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By Press Release |
December 7, 2012
CME Group, Futures Industry Association, the Institute for Financial Markets and National Futures Association today announced that they have jointly commissioned a firm to study the costs and benefits of adopting an insurance regime for the U.S. futures industry.
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By Tony C. Dreibus and Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
August 9, 2012
Stockpiles of the biggest crops will decline for a third year as drought parches fields across three continents, raising food-import costs already forecast by the United Nations to reach a near-record $1.24 trillion.
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By Mark Drajem and Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg |
July 26, 2012
This year’s once-in-a-generation drought may leave many crop farmers largely unscathed as they are protected by taxpayer-subsidized insurance, a program Congress is moving to make more generous.
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By Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg |
July 19, 2012
Crop insurers may face their first underwriting loss since 2002 as the worst Midwest drought in more than two decades threatens the U.S. harvest, according to Iowa State University’s Bruce Babcock.
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By News story |
July 13, 2012
Russell Wasendorf, Sr. was arrest by FBI agents Friday afternoon. Here is the affidavit with the charges and a copy of what Wasendorf said in a note found near his attempted suicide.
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By Linda Sandler, Bloomberg |
July 12, 2012
Customers’ claims on PFGBest, whose founder is accused by regulators of misappropriating more than $200 million, may fetch less than a quarter of their value in the wake of the firm’s bankruptcy.
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By Daniel P. Collins, Michael McFarlin |
July 10, 2012
The PFGBest revelation raises serious questions about the safety of the U.S. Futures industry. Now, apparently customer segregation has been violated twice in nine months.
