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By Nick Gentle, Bloomberg |
June 11, 2013
OptionsXpress Inc., a unit of U.S. brokerage Charles Schwab Corp., and its former chief financial officer helped to facilitate sham transactions that violated U.S. securities laws, an administrative court ruled.
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By Ian Katz and Zachary Tracer, Bloomberg |
June 4, 2013
American International Group Inc., Prudential Financial Inc. and a unit of General Electric Co. were identified by U.S. regulators as potential risks to the financial system in a step toward putting the firms under tighter government scrutiny.
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By Carter Dougherty, Bloomberg |
May 23, 2013
U.S. bankers and insurers are trying to use trade deals, which can trump existing legislation, to weaken parts of the Dodd-Frank Act designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.
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By Jesse Westbrook, Bloomberg |
May 22, 2013
Hedge funds’ returns have stayed “lackluster” this year, with the $2.3 trillion industry trailing the gains of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by about 10 percentage points, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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By Silla Brush, Bloomberg |
May 16, 2013
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the world’s largest banks won rollbacks in final Dodd-Frank Act rules that promise to transform the private swaps market by increasing competition.
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By Silla Brush |
May 15, 2013
The world’s largest banks are set to win a rollback in final Dodd-Frank Act rules intended to transform the swaps market.
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By Christine Harper and Alexis Leondis, Bloomberg |
May 9, 2013
Bill Rubin, a senior investment analyst at BlackRock Inc. who picks financial-company stocks, didn’t mince words a year ago when he e-mailed JPMorgan Chase & Co. right after the bank disclosed a trading loss that ultimately cost more than $6.2 billion.
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By Silla Brush |
May 8, 2013
The regulator is considering reducing the number of price quotes a buyer must request before trading swaps.
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By Michael P. Regan and Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg |
May 3, 2013
U.S. stocks rallied, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching 15,000 for the first time, and Treasuries slid as faster-than-forecast employment growth bolstered optimism in the world’s largest economy.
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By Inyoung Hwang and Lu Wang, Bloomberg |
May 3, 2013
U.S. stocks rose, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 15,000 for the first time, as employment picked up more than forecast in April and the jobless rate unexpectedly declined to a four-year low.
