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ThinkstockThe U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) received bids on 1.7 million acres in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico at today’s auction, but none of the bids came from BP plc (NYSE: BP)....
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ThinkstockBiofuel maker Gevo Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) won a partial victory in federal court yesterday when a judge ruled that its method for producing isobutanol does not infringe on a patent held by...
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Wikimedia CommonsIn a settlement reached late yesterday, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has agreed to return $546 million to investors of now-bankrupt MF Global. The settlement also brings...
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Wikimedia CommonsJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) suffered another blow to its reputation, as a government agency downgraded its rating of the financial firm’s management. What that means...
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ThinkstockEnergy producer Harvest Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: HNR) saw its share price cut nearly in half earlier today following a company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
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Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsA 1994 Oregon Republican gubernatorial candidate, Craig Berkman, was charged with fraud today by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a...
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ThinkstockThis morning we went on record calling the European proposal to make depositors face a Cyprus bailout tax on their bank deposits as being nothing short of theft. A levy, tax, fee, or any...
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ThinkstockI already have gone on the record that the taxation of deposits in Cyprus is nothing short of theft. Regardless of a bloated banking system that was in shambles, taking depositors’...
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wikicommons / SkimstaWhat we are seeing is in Cyprus an instance when taxation becomes theft. When depositors place money in banks, they assume that their deposits are safe as long as the banks do...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said today that the CR Intrinsic unit of hedge fund SAC Capital has agreed to pay $600 million to settle insider trading charges brought by...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report on U.S. automobiles’ fuel economy today, and the preliminary projections for model year 2012 cars is the highest...
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Brian Katt / Wikimedia Commons / GNU Free Documentation LicenseThe annual stress tests on the biggest U.S. banks produced a few surprises when the results were announced last night. The capital plans...
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ThinkstockThere has been a bruising battle over how much America’s largest corporations should pay in taxes, especially as the size of the federal budget deficit grows. While on paper the federal...
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ThinkstockIn a patent infringement case similar to the one it won against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), a jury has been unable to reach a verdict in lawsuit brought by patent licensing firm VirnetX...
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Courtesy Herbalife Ltd.William Ackman and Pershing Square Capital Management have released another presentation backing Ackman’s claim that Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) is indeed a pyramid scheme....
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