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Back in January, the Supreme Court placed stringent limitations on scheme liability — the notion that investment banks and accounting…
No one has really worked out how to wall-off significant risk in one division of a financial services giant from…
Morgan Stanley (MS) thought it could pull a "monkey see, monkey do" act with NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.…
There has been a great deal of talk about how the New York State Attorney General and the SEC has…
The safe-house for money center banks closed and locked its doors long ago. The mortgage-related paper crisis rolls on like…
According to Reuters, RBS (RBS) had $1.35 billion loss due to write-downs. Reuters reports that Google (GOOG) says its investment…
Now that Citigroup (C) and Merrill Lynch (MER) have announced that they will buy back auction-rate securities sold to their…
Merrill Lynch (MER), pole-axed by the Citigroup (C) decision to buy back all of the auction-rate securities it has sold…
In an announcement that shows how remarkable flawed the marketing and risk management at Citigroup (C) have been, the bank…
AIG (AIG) has made the assumption that other firms like Merrill Lynch (MER) and Citigroup (C) did. Changing CEOs will…
According to Reuters, Freddie Mac (FRE) now has a negative net worth which means some investors think it should trade…
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.—Shakespeare, “The Tempest” Auction-rate securities were one of the great inventions of modern banking.…
According to Reuters, a new tally of votes for the Yahoo! (YHOO) board election shows a high percentage of protest…
HSBC (HBC) is the latest money center bank to be clobbered by more write-downs. For the most recently reported quarter…
According to Reuters, the Fed will sit tight on rates as oil prices moderate. Reuters writes that Verizon (VZ) labor…
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