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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking to determine whether some private-equity firms are taking more profits from investments than they should under agreements with fund clients, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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The largest U.S. private-equity funds and venture capital firms have relied on a five-year, multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to protect the carried interest tax break that helped drive presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 2010 effective tax rate below 14 percent.
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Mitt Romney, saying business losses are part of “the way America works,” urged caution in adopting new regulations in response to the $2 billion trading loss by JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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The state of the U.S. economy will be the dominant issue deciding the outcome of November’s congressional elections, senators from both parties said today.
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House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey , one of Congress’s most powerful Democrats, won’t seek another term this year.
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The Democratic National Committee, facing an “uphill” fight to keep its party in control of Congress, plans to spend a record $50 million on this year’s election campaigns, said Chairman Tim Kaine .
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Republican candidates have the financial lead in most of the 15 competitive races for U.S. House seats in which Democratic incumbents aren’t running again, Federal Election Commission reports show.
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