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The McGraw-Hill Cos. and Standard & Poor’s must face a lawsuit filed by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan in state court, a federal judge ruled.
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Institutional investors should be required to publicly disclose equity holdings within two days after the quarter ends, instead of 45 days, NYSE Euronext said in a petition to U.S. regulators.
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Credit-rating companies routinely award higher rankings to debt issued by banks and corporations that pay them the most, a conflict of interest that may escape Congressional efforts to change the way they do business.
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Wynn Resorts Ltd. Vice Chairman Kazuo Okada sued the casino operator for access to financial records in a dispute with the company over the use of funds.
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Shareholders in U.S.-listed companies can thank Standard & Poor’s for making them $1 trillion poorer after the rating firm earlier this month lowered the grade on Treasury securities for the first time to AA+ from AAA. Now, some of the most experienced investors say the stock market losses make no sense.
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San Francisco lawyer John Keker, the Vietnam War platoon leader who later prosecuted Oliver North and represented clients from Eldridge Cleaver to Lance Armstrong, may deploy his “slashing and smashing” approach to defend Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC.
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John Keker’s San Francisco law firm declares on its website that it takes the “the make or break cases where companies, careers and reputations are riding on the result.”
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The U.S. government will prevail in its lawsuit accusing McGraw-Hill Cos. and its Standard & Poor’s unit of fraud, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt said.
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A U.S. appeals court temporarily halted enforcement of Alabama laws requiring unregistered immigrants to carry documentation and forcing schools in the state to track students’ immigration status.
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Eight offshore banks are under federal grand jury investigation for facilitating tax evasion by U.S. citizens as part of a probe the Justice Department said has dealt “fabled Swiss bank secrecy a devastating blow.”
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