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Ontario plans to give its securities regulator more powers through changes in yesterday's provincial budget to increase oversight over capital markets.
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Petrominerales Ltd. is poised to gain 42 percent over the next 12 months as the Canadian oil producer considers steps to raise cash from assets including a Colombian pipeline stake, Toronto-Dominion Bank said.
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Banks charged almost 2 percent in average fees on U.S. structured notes tied to stocks in the first quarter, the most for any three-month period in at least three years.
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Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering demonstrated flaws in U.S. securities laws that must be fixed, according to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa.
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New U.S. securities laws intended to help startup companies raise money are poised to benefit real estate investors as well, allowing individuals to buy stakes in offices and other commercial buildings once off limits to them.
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Barry Silbert was born to trade.
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Investors who sued over $351 billion in downgraded Countrywide Financial Corp. mortgage-backed securities after the 2007 subprime market collapse may have to settle for less than 1 percent of what they initially sought.
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Life Partners Holdings Inc. and its Life Partners unit won a ruling by a Texas judge that the interests it sells in life insurance policy settlements aren’t securities covered by state law.
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New U.S. securities laws intended to help startup companies raise money are poised to benefit real estate investors as well, allowing individuals to buy stakes in offices and other commercial buildings once off limits to them.
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Last month, a Senate investigative panel put a spotlight on how the accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP helped Hewlett-Packard Co. use gimmicks and loopholes to avoid taxes on billions of dollars of profits stashed overseas.