Probe

On Wednesday, the FBI arrested Don Chu, an expert on Asian markets for Primary Global Research, setting the tone for the SEC's crackdown on insider trading. Chu was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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.

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...

Shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters plummeted 17.4% in morning trading Wednesday after the company announced that it had discovered $4.4 million worth of accounting errors dating back to 2007, and that the SEC had started a probe.

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.

Two federal agencies are investigating whether drugmaker Merck & Co. violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials.

German prosecutors raided all 13 Credit Suisse branches in the country on Wednesday as part of a probe into tax fraud. Earlier this year, German authorities acquired information on some 1,500 Credit Suisse customers who may have been using the Swiss accounts to avoid paying taxes.

Generic drugmaker Mylan is reportedly being probed by the Securities and Exchange Commission on whether it shared confidential information about its third-quarter earnings with a few select investors before making it public.

Johnson & Johnson is being accused of stonewalling a congressional investigation into the recent recall of the company's children's medicines, The New York Times reported.