Associated Press
Morgan Keegan & Co. has been granted an administration hearing on allegations that its brokerage firm cost investors, including retirees, more than $2 billion in losses through fraudulent and reckless business practices.
An insurance broker has admitted stealing $2.6 million that a New Jersey school district unknowingly paid for a nonexistent health care program.
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The landmark health-care bill passed by the House on Sunday appears to be a shot in the arm for health-care stocks
Stocks are falling in early trading as investors remain skittish in advance of the president's State of the Union address and the conclusion of the Federal Reserve's latest interest-rate setting meeting.
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The Obama administration's stepped up demand for tougher restrictions and new taxes on big banks is complicating Senate efforts to write a bipartisan financial regulation overhaul, even drawing a sharp rebuke from a top presidential ally in the Senate.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. on Friday priced an offering of $700 million of its common stock.
Auditors and examiners failed to flag the mountain of risky debt piling up on bank balance sheets in the run-up to 2008. Nevertheless, some of those auditors and examiners hauled in large payments for exceptional performance on the job.
Stocks fell Wednesday after new home sales dropped by a third to a record low last month following the end of homebuyer tax credits.
