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Brian Katt / Wikimedia Commons / GNU Free Documentation LicenseBank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has yet another new lawsuit based upon the housing implosion and mortgage fraud. The Justice...
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) has filed its automatic shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. What investors will wonder is whether...
bitcoin.orgThere is more bad news for Bitcoin, and it is not just that proposed Bitcoin ETF is not going to ever be allowed off the ground. The Securities & Exchange Commission has charged a man...
ThinkstockStephen A. Cohen, the founder and owner of SAC Capital Advisors LLC, has been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with “failing reasonably to supervise two of his...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today rejected a settlement with Philip Falcone and his hedge fund firm Harbinger Capital Partners LLC that had been proposed by the...
ThinkstockBy a vote of 4 to 1, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a proposed rule that would allow hedge funds, private equity firms, and other companies that raise money...
ThinkstockShares of Linn Energy LLC (NASDAQ: LINE) and its subsidiary LinnCo LLC (NASDAQ: LNCO) are tumbling today after an announcement last night that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
thinkstockDo you ever get spam emails touting “public” companies on an unsolicited basis? If your email address appears anywhere online, chances are high that you have been sent a spam email that...
courtesy of DellFollowing yesterday’s presentation from Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) rejecting a buyout offer from activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc., Icahn and...
courtesy Dell Inc.A special committee of the board of directors of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) this morning recommended that the company’s shareholders accept the merger agreement being offered by...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing a step toward booting microcap OTC shell companies from trading as a part of its “Operation Shell Expel” effort....
Jon OggThe 2012 initial public offering of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was just yet another incident where the immediate reaction and trading shenanigans that took place have worked to destroy...
ThinkstockThe Securities and Exchange Commission is usually seen going after individuals, fiduciary managers, and companies for various aspects of investor fraud. We already have seen the state of...
ThinkstockThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Monday that it has entered into a what is a called a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) with Ralph Lauren Corp. (NYSE: RL). What is...
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...