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UBS hit with fraud suit over auction-rate sales
Published: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:00 AM Page B7
New York Attorney-General Andrew Cuomo launched a multibillion-dollar fraud suit against UBS AG yesterday, the first legal salvo to result from a wide-ranging probe of how Wall Street marketed a popular investment known as auction-rate securities.
Banks rally amid hopes worst is over
Published: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:00 AM Page B1
Wachovia Corp., the struggling North Carolina bank that has been battered by the mortgage crisis, unveiled a gruesome quarterly report yesterday, incurring a record loss of $8.9-billion (U.S.), posting a double-digit decline in revenue and shaving its dividend to mere pennies.
Banks rally amid hopes worst is over
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Online Edition: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 09:21 PM
Wachovia shares lead recovery as investors look for the positive in stream of ugly news
After Nipplegate defeat, FCC crusade in tatters
Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:00 AM Page B1
She has won six Grammy Awards, been nominated for an Oscar, and had a star placed on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Now, Janet Jackson can pin another medal on her chest: accidental First Amendment crusader.
After Nipplegate defeat, FCC crusade in tatters
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Online Edition: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:45 PM
Appeals court throws out $550,000 fine imposed on CBS over 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that briefly revealed Janet Jackson's right breast
THE HOUSE THAT INDYMAC BUILT
Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:00 AM Page B4
Patricia Ramirez's home, which sits on a ragged dead-end street at the edge of East Los Angeles in the shadow of an elevated freeway, cost $445,000 (U.S.) when she and her husband bought it in February, 2007.
The house that IndyMac built
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Online Edition: Friday, July 18, 2008 09:21 PM
In the low-rate days of 2003, big pension and hedge funds were hungry for higher yields – and upstarts like IndyMac were only too eager to please. Their creations became time bombs that still threaten the financial system
Be careful, and other new guidelines
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Online Edition: Friday, July 18, 2008 01:13 AM
Proposals a sign of just how far the banking system strayed from basic principles of monitoring and controlling risk
Be careful, and other new guidelines
Published: Friday, July 18, 2008 12:00 AM Page B1
A coalition of the world's top financial companies is pledging to reform the industry with a series of improvements designed to ward off another banking crisis and restore investors' brittle faith in global markets.
Black days in July
Published: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:00 AM Page B1
A decade ago, three of the most powerful officials in Washington - Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, and Larry Summers - banded together to squelch a global financial crisis, earning lavish praise and the nickname: ''The Committee to Save the World.''
