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Visa, MasterCard Fire Back on Card Fees

The U.S. judge overseeing litigation over Argentine debt said he won’t agree to Citigroup Inc.’s request that he declare whether the bank is affected by his order barring payments to holders of restructured ...

U.S. regulators will get access to Chinese companies' audit documents under a deal announced on Friday, opening the way to probes of bungled audits after a two-year stand-off between China and the United ...

Ista Pharmaceuticals Inc pleaded guilty on Friday to charges it used kickbacks and improper marketing to boost sales of a drug meant to treat eye pain and agreed to pay $33.5 million to settle criminal ...

Google Inc. is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display- advertising market to illegally curb competition, ...

Just a few months after escaping an antitrust case on its search ads, Google is now the subject of a Federal Trade Commission probe of its display-ad business. This comes as little surprise to anyone who has been watching the search advertising giant's quiet but steady rise in the past few [...]

A fifth executive at SAC Capital has received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury as part of the government’s investigation of insider trading at the Stamford, CT hedge fund firm. He is SAC portfolio ...

Sands Names Deloitte as Auditor

Apple unlikely to settle e-book price-fixing case

People contacted in connection with the inquiry said that the F.T.C. was asking questions about Google’s bundling of advertising services.

Fitch Rating is no longer considering lowering its credit rating for Ally Financial after the company agreed to pay $2.1 billion as part of a settlement plan to resolve potential financial claims stemming ...

Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia Corporation has filed more cases against rival, HTC Corp

Financial advisor Charles J. Dushek bagged a 25,000% return in his individual retirement account from 2008 to 2011 despite Wall Street firms and giant banks collapsing, or the unemployment rate rocketing ...

Chevron's relationships in Ecuador, Argentina, and Brazil, while still imperfect, are looking far more positive than they did just a year ago.

U.S., China Set Pact On Auditor Access

Four Top SAC Executives Receive Subpoenas in Probe

By Andrew Callus LONDON (Reuters) - A group of accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it has to fund as the cash outflow threatens to add billions of ...

The three oil producers under investigation by the European Commission for manipulating oil prices are being sued in a class-action lawsuit in the U.S.

The new actions include a second complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission and a federal suit in Southern California. Those come on top of other legal actions that date back to last year.

Four senior executives at Steven Cohen 's SAC Capital Advisors LP received subpoenas as part of the U.S. multiyear probe into insider trading at the hedge fund firm, a person with knowledge of the matter ...

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.

SAC Capital Advisors LP founder Steven A. Cohen has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in New York as part of the U.S. government’s five-year crackdown on insider trading.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, the top player in Web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in how it handles some advertising ...

The four executives were ordered to testify before a grand jury investigating actions at the hedge fund.

By Sarah N . Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Institutional Shareholder Services has settled civil charges by U.S. regulators that an employee of the prominent proxy advisory firm shared nonpublic voting data ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox video-gaming system won’t be blocked from entering the U.S. after a trade panel found it doesn’t infringe a patent owned by Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility unit.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp won a round in a complex patent war on Thursday when the International Trade Commission said the company's popular Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent ...

While bond insurers MBIA Inc and FGIC Corp receive the lion's share of Ally Financial Inc's $2.1 billion contribution to the debts of mortgage lender Residential Capital LLC, hedge funds like Paulson & ...

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility when it made its popular Xbox, the International Trade Commission said on Thursday. The ...

Steven A. Cohen's lawyers made their best case argument a month ago to federal prosecutors about why the hedge fund billionaire and his SAC Capital Advisors should not be charged with criminal wrongdoing ...

Apple and the federal government met on Thursday for a final hearing before their trial, which is set to begin on June 3, and features several high profile witnesses.

SEC Bars Former Goldman Banker Over Pay-to-Play

Some of the country's largest retailers, including Target Corp. and Macy's Inc., on Thursday filed a lawsuit against MasterCard and Visa, rejecting a settlement reached last year over alleged fee-fixing. ...

By Emily Flitter and Matthew Goldstein NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Lawyers for SAC Capital Advisors called a meeting with U.S. prosecutors and FBI agents in April to argue that there should be no insider ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Goldman Sachs (GS.N) banker Neil Morrison agreed to pay $100,000 to settle charges for his role in a pay-to-play scheme involving a Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign, the ...

SETTLED WITH SEC: Institutional Shareholder Services, a prominent firm that advises big shareholders on how to vote in elections for company directors is paying a $300,000 fine to settle federal charges ...

By Suzanne Barlyn May 23 (Reuters) - The top U.S. securities regulator on Thursday filed civil fraud charges against a former LPL Financial LLC adviser, charging he diverted some $2 million of client funds ...

A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker will pay $100,000 to resolve U.S. regulatory claims that he made improper contributions to a Massachusetts treasurer while seeking state underwriting ...

A number of large retailers, including Target (TGT) and Macy’s (M), filed a new lawsuit in Manhattan alleging the $7.25B settlement agreed to by Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) over credit and debit card ...

A prominent firm in the business of advising big shareholders on how to vote in elections for company directors is paying a $300,000 fine to settle federal civil charges of failing to protect clients' ...

Reuters If you're not paying for a product, the saying goes, then you're the product being sold. Another way of saying this is that you and Google -- and you and Twitter, and you and Facebook -- do not ...

A $7 billion antitrust settlement over credit-card processing fees that critics say would make things worse for retailers suffered another insult today as Target, Macy's and J.C. Penney filed their own lawsuit accusing Visa and Mastercard of generating monopoly profits at their expense.

Ally Financial Inc agreed on Thursday to pay $2.1 billion to settle legal claims tied to its bankrupt Residential Capital LLC unit, nearly triple the amount it initially offered to creditors of the subprime ...

The senior SAC executives who have been subpoenaed include the president and the chief compliance officer.

In preparation for the next round of its patent-infringement trial against Samsung, Apple has added another five patents to its lawsuit.

By Suzanne Barlyn May 23 (Reuters) - The top U.S. securities regulator on Thursday filed civil fraud charges against a former LPL Financial LLC adviser, charging he diverted some $2 million of client funds ...