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Proposed home finance reform could restrict Wells Fargo lending
A bipartisan Senate effort to shut down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could curtail Wells Fargo & Co.’s enormous home lending business by restricting the bank’s ability to issue certain mortgage-backed securities. The proposal, spearheaded by...
Tags: Fannie Mae, Economy, Business and Finance, Financial Markets, Freddie Mac, Finance
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Is S&P to blame?
Federal and state prosecutors sued the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's this week for allegedly defrauding investors by giving inflated ratings to complex mortgage-backed securities that proved all but worthless after the housing bubble burst. The...
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Securities, Economy, Business and Finance, Credit and Debt, Crime, Law and Justice
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California accuses S&P of deception in $4-billion lawsuit
California has filed suit against Wall Street's biggest credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, charging the firm with violating the state's False Claims Act by using “magic numbers” and “guesses” to inflate ratings that...
Tags: Securities, Economy, Business and Finance, Pension and Welfare, Litigation, Crime, Law and Justice
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Justice Department, state officials to announce Standard & Poor's suit
WASHINGTON -- Justice Department officials and attorneys general from California and several other states were set Tuesday morning to announce a landmark civil suit against Standard & Poor's Corp. concerning the company's credit ratings of troubled...
Tags: Securities, Economy, Business and Finance, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, BP Plc
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S&P helped cause financial crisis with faulty ratings, Feds allege
WASHINGTON -- Standard & Poor's Corp. helped cause the financial crisis by misleading investors with falsely high credit ratings on bonds backed by toxic subprime mortgages, federal officials alleged Tuesday in announcing a civil suit against the company....
Tags: Securities, Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Credit and Debt, Manufacturing and Engineering
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MF Global deja vu? $220 million goes missing at futures brokerage
It feels like doomsday at mid-size Iowa futures brokerage PFGBest, where $220 million in customer funds have gone missing, accounts have been frozen by an industry regulator and the company’s chief executive attempted suicide Monday. Less than a...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Bankruptcy, Finance, MF Global, Suicide
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Spain's borrowing costs rise, stocks sink following bank rescue
World NowMADRID -- Spain's borrowing costs flirted with record highs Monday and stock prices sank on the first trading day since Madrid agreed to give $24 billion of taxpayers' money to rescue its largest real estate lender. The country's prime minister vigorously... -
Super Bowl ticket prices are down, but they're still no bargain
Sports NowSuper Bowl ticket prices on the secondary market Monday morning showed a 13% drop-off from those from a year ago. So says TiqIQ, an event-ticket aggregator that tracks listings from StubHub, EBay, TicketNetwork and TicketsNow.... -
Facebook reportedly suspends share trading ahead of IPO
TechnologyFacebook has reportedly frozen shareholder trading on secondary markets this week for the next three days, a move that might be made in preparation for the company's expected initial public offering. Officials at Facebook were unavailable for comment on... -
72 Hours: Wilco, Secret Chiefs 3 and more
Pop & HissThe weekly Pop & Hiss rundown of the weekend's top concerts, including Wilco, Lucinda Williams, the Secret Chiefs 3 and more. Friday • Wilco @ the Los Angeles Theatre. At an early, pivitol Wilco show back in 1996, the band...... -
Springsteen's L.A. tickets hit resale markets; second date added
Pop & HissThe return of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to Los Angeles was met with the expected high demand. A second L.A. date at the Sports Arena was added after an April 26 date, which went on sale at 10 a.m., quickly sold out. Tickets for an April 27... -
Ted Forstmann dies at 71; Wall Street financier, philanthropist
Ted Forstmann, a longtime Wall Street financier and philanthropist who was a major player during the wave of corporate takeovers in the 1980s, including the battle for RJR Nabisco in 1988, died Sunday. He was 71.
The cause was brain cancer, according...Tags: Banking, Investments, Economy, Business and Finance, Community Health Systems Incorporated, Columbia University
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