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Potential Buffett Successor David Sokol Resigns Under Stock Trading Cloud
9:45AM 3/31/2011
Company News, People, Investing, Goldman Sachs , Moody's Corp, Berkshire Hathaway, Citigroup, Market News
David Sokol, widely viewed as the heir apparent to famed investor Warren Buffett, abruptly resigned Wednesday. What investors want to know now is who's still in the running to succeed Buffett as CEO. Here are four possibilities.
Another Facebook Scam; Now an Inquiry by an Attorney General
4:05PM 2/18/2011
Ongoing problems with scams being run on Facebook -- including one that pretended be to from a state legislator -- has led to an inquiry by Connecticut's attorney general about how the social networking giant is dealing with fraud on its pages.
Just days after Consumer Ally reported that a U.S....
Hewlett-Packard to Launch Investigation into Circumstances of Hurd's Departure
9:50AM 1/20/2011
Company News, People, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Biz Brief, Stocks in the News
Hewlett-Packard is planning an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the forced resignation of CEO Mark Hurd last year and the compensation package he received. A shareholder lawsuit claims HP's directors wasted company money by awarding Hurd as much as $53 million in severance.
The biggest names in social networking -- Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and LinkedIn -- haven't yet gone public, but their stock does get traded by the very rich on private exchanges. Now, some of those transactions have raised the interest of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Wellington and Janus Eyed in Possible Insider Trading Probes
4:05PM 11/23/2010
Wellington Management has received a document request from federal regulators looking into possible insider trading on the part of money managers with the firm, Bloomberg News reported, citing a person familiar with the process. Janus Capital Group also received such a request.
New Clues About How Hedge Funds Make So Much Money
3:00PM 11/21/2010
Investing, Health Care, Goldman Sachs , Merck, Schering-Plough, Streetwise
We all wonder why Wall Street pros make so much more money than everyone else. But investment bankers are pikers compared to hedge fund managers, who make their money by taking a small cut of the assets they attract as well as a larger slice of the profits they earn in a given year. The higher...
FDIC Launches 50 Criminal Investigations Into Failed Banks
4:00PM 11/17/2010
In the wake of hundreds of failed banks since the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. regulators reportedly have begun 50 investigations into possible wrongdoing by bank executives, directors and employees.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) is looking into 300 failures of banks of all sizes in...
Attorneys General May Launch Foreclosure Investigation
7:35AM 10/11/2010
Company News, Economy, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Real Estate, Credit
Attorneys general in dozens of states plan to launch a joint probe into charges that banks used bogus paperwork to evict borrowers from their homes.
The investigation will go after charges that lenders including GMAC, JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC) forged documents and faked...
Failing Headlights on Honda Fits Prompt Federal Probe
3:51PM 9/24/2010
U.S. officials have begun an investigation into 133,000 Honda Fit models in response to consumer complaints about headlights that stopped working. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's preliminary investigation involves Fits from the 2007 and 2008 model years.
Google Street View Banned From the Czech Republic
9:27AM 9/14/2010
Google's controversial Street View service, which has raised privacy concerns in countries around the world, got the heave-ho from the Czech Republic Tuesday after failing to file for the proper registration to operate in that country.
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