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Doug Cubberley

Doug was Assistant Managing Editor at InvestmentNews from 2010 to 2012, before moving on to Investopedia.com as Senior Supervising Editor. Connect at: Linkedin

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U.S. Senate republicans push for full repeal of Dodd-Frank

Bill by Senate Banking Committee's Jim Demint would scrap the regulatory overhaul that aims to make sweeping changes to oversight of derivatives, consumer lending and business practices at financial firms.

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Former Schwab exec to pay $150K in SEC YieldPlus case

Ex-Charles Schwab Corp. investment company manager Randall Merk agreed to pay a $150,000 civil fine to resolve a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors in its YieldPlus fund.

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SEC names Leiman-Carbia head of broker-dealer examinations

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has named Julius Leiman-Carbia as an associate director to lead the agency's national broker-dealer examination program.

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Obama to advisers: ‘No more tax monkey business’

President Barack Obama is making his clearest pitch yet for an overhaul of the entire U.S. tax code for individuals and businesses, and the wealthy probably won't like it.

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Ex-Amaranth trader fined $30M for gaming the gas market

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a $30 million fine against former Amaranth Advisors LLC energy trader Brian Hunter, who is accused of manipulating the natural-gas futures market in 2006.

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Massachusetts to crack down on expert-network firms

Massachusetts plans to regulate expert-network firms, the first state in the U.S. to set rules for an industry that was caught up in the federal government's insider-trading investigation.

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Treasury 6-month bill drops to record low as debt limit looms

Six-month bill rates declined to a record low as the Treasury reduces sales of short-term securities while the Obama administration and Congress wrangle over budget cuts and raising the U.S. debt limit.

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Cyber crooks hacking small U.S. businesses, sending money to China

Hackers are getting to the bank accounts of small-to-medium size businesses in the U.S. and sending unauthorized wire transfers to Chinese economic and trade companies, according to the FBI.

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You having a laugh, mate? U.K. proposes $225 a week flat-rate state pension

The U.K. government proposed replacing its current means-tested state pension with a flat-rate payment of about 140 pounds ($225) a week, with the goal of increasing incentives for people to save for their old age.

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‘Mini-Madoff’ held in $300M suspected currency plot

Spanish police arrested a man suspected of running a $300 million Ponzi-type fraud in foreign exchange trading that…