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  • Goldman Sachs Wins Even When Muzzled by the Feds

    Almost three years ago, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $550 million to settle fraud accusations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the claims was that Goldman misled the bond-insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in a horribly complex deal named Abacus.

  • Brits Show U.S. the Right Way to Come Clean

    The U.K.'s accounting watchdog on May 9 said it had placed KPMG Audit Plc under two separate investigations in connection with its audits of a car seller and the conduct of one of the firm's partners.

  • It's Official (Sort of): JPMorgan Is World's Biggest Bank

    JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the world's largest bank by total assets, using the best available data for apples-to-apples comparisons.

  • Bank of America Makes Stock Picking Look Easy

    Wouldn’t it be nice if investing in the stock market were as easy as Bank of America Corp. is making it look?

  • Buffett Supports Dimon, Dog Bites Man

    Warren Buffett says he supports Jamie Dimon keeping his dual roles as chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. And his remarks have been getting a lot of attention in advance of JPMorgan's annual meeting on May 21 in Tampa, Florida.

  • Here’s a Job JPMorgan’s Dimon Can Do Without

    In 2006, during Jamie Dimon’s first year as JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chief executive officer, a proposal on the company’s proxy statement called for separating the bank’s CEO and chairman positions. It received 38 percent of the votes. And back then, JPMorgan already had someone else as its chairman: William Harrison, Dimon’s predecessor as CEO.

  • Deutsche Bank Should Sell, Sell, Sell

    So much for the notion that diluting banks' shareholders is necessarily bad for them. Deutsche Bank shares were up as much as 7.9 percent this morning after Germany's largest bank sold 2.96 billion euros of stock.

  • What Apple Can Learn From Warren Buffett

    Give credit to Apple Inc. and its chief executive officer, Tim Cook, for getting serious about returning unneeded capital to shareholders. As for the details, some of them don’t seem well thought out.

  • Does Congress Have a Clue on Insider Trading?

    Justin Simon was an obscure research analyst in Washington at a small broker-dealer named Height Securities LLC when he scored an amazing scoop last week.

  • Life Imitates Art Imitates Boiler Rooms

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority filed a complaint today accusing John Thomas and its chief executive, Anastasios "Tommy" Belesis, of fraud.

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