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JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) scored a modest victory on Tuesday in a trial related to price-fixing on e-books at its App Store. The same judge who has ruled against...
Wikimedia CommonsJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), which already faces a handful of federal investigations for a variety of alleged bad behavior, now faces a U.S. Securities and Exchange...
courtesy Ford Motor Co.On Thursday afternoon, Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is expected to announce that its C-Max hybrid’s mileage rating will be cut from a combined 47 miles per gallon (mpg) to 43 mpg...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has subpoenaed documents and other communications and records going back to 2010 from a metals warehousing firm. Reuters reports...
ThinkstockHedge fund Harbinger Capital, has filed suit in federal court against Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE), Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), and Trimble Navigation Ltd. (NASDAQ: TRMB) for failing to...
ThinkstockThe days of Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FMCC) could soon be history. President Obama is now on board with an orderly winding...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued a final rule for the amount of renewable fuels to be added to the nation’s transportation fuel supply in 2013. Oil refiners,...
courtesy of AppleThe ruling released this weekend by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) overturning a ban on sales of certain products made by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will have little to no...
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Department of Justice today submitted a proposed remedy to the federal court that will issue penalties on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) next week following the...
ThinkstockWhen oil services firm Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) pleaded guilty to destroying evidence in an investigation of the causes of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 workers...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has issued a five-count criminal indictment of SAC Capital Advisors, including four charges of securities fraud and one charge of...
ThinkstockThe European Commission (EC) has been searching for a way for a long time to cut what it calls “unjustified high” credit and debit card fees. The commission might have just found it....
courtesy of NBN at German WikipediaThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today published an agency review on the health effects of menthol and nonmenthol cigarettes. Menthol currently enjoys...
ThinkstockThe day when you merely had to open your front door to pick up your mail may be fading away. The U.S. Postal Service has begun notifying residents of some new and fast-growing housing...
ThinkstockBy now, anyone paying any attention to gasoline prices has run into the term “blend wall,” which is the point at which mandated ethanol production matches or exceeds ethanol demand....