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• Wall Street bonuses, staff levels to rise in 2013 -consultant Friday, 17 May 2013 | 11:31 AM ET

  NEW YORK, May 17- Wall Street bonuses and staff levels are expected to rise this year as trading and dealmaking activity pick up, according to a closely watched report released on Friday by a compensation consulting firm.

• Wall Street: How Much Does Bloomberg Know? Saturday, 11 May 2013 | 7:22 PM ET

  

  The Bloomberg terminal privacy breach puts the firm in an awkward situation: Explaining itself to Wall Street clients.

• Fed, Treasury Examining Bloomberg Saturday, 11 May 2013 | 3:59 PM ET

  

  The Fed and Treasury are examining the extent to which Bloomberg journalists tracked usage of Bloomberg terminals.

• UPDATE 1-Billionaire Steinmetz sues ex-adviser over Soros link Thursday, 11 Apr 2013 | 11:31 AM ET

  LONDON, April 11- Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz is suing his former London- based business advisers and a British ex-minister in a battle over Guinea's mineral wealth. Steinmetz and BSGR accuse their own former communications and business advisory firm, FTI Consulting, of breaching its contract with BSGR by colluding with Soros in the alleged campaign.

• Billionaire Steinmetz sues former adviser over Soros link Thursday, 11 Apr 2013 | 7:39 AM ET

  LONDON, April 11- Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz is suing his former London- based business advisers and a British ex-minister in a battle over Guinea's mineral wealth. Steinmetz and BSGR accuse their own former communications and business advisory firm, FTI Consulting, of breaching its contract with BSGR by colluding with Soros in the alleged campaign.

• INSIGHT-Payments for mom-and-pop stock orders reveal conflicts Tuesday, 2 Apr 2013 | 11:28 AM ET

  "Payment for order flow is on an uphill climb, and in these markets, there has to be questions about how those conflicts are being reined in," said Chris Nagy, president of consulting firm KOR Trading LLC and former head of TD Ameritrade Holding Corp's order routing operations. "

• UPDATE 2-Sluggish corporate spending crimps Accenture forecast Thursday, 28 Mar 2013 | 11:28 AM ET

  March 28- Outsourcing and consulting services provider Accenture Plc reduced its forecast for revenue growth, saying its consulting business was still being hurt by a slowdown in corporate discretionary spending, especially in Europe.

• FBI probe of Universal focuses on $25mln consultant fee company now disavows Saturday, 16 Mar 2013 | 9:45 PM ET

  TOYKO/ MANILA, March 17- The FBI and Philippine investigators probing potential bribery related to Universal Entertainment Corp's bid to build a casino in Manila have zeroed in on a $25 million payment the Japanese company now says should never have been made. The FBI is involved because the payment originated from a Universal subsidiary based in Nevada.

• UPDATE 4-Florida lieutenant governor resigns in gambling probe Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013 | 5:48 PM ET

  *Was consultant for Allied Veterans of the World. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 13- Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll abruptly resigned after an Internet cafe company that was her former consulting client was linked to an alleged illegal gambling racket, state officials said on Wednesday.

• REFILE-Insider-trading informant to forfeit $40,000, avoids prison Monday, 4 Feb 2013 | 5:51 PM ET

  District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan ordered Motey to forfeit $40,000 and to serve a year of supervised release, for conspiracy and securities fraud. In 2005, the Wall Street Journal named Motey a top securities analyst in the semiconductor industry, and a year later he started the Coda Group research consulting company in Los Altos, California.

• Insider-trading informant to forefeit $40,000, avoids prison Monday, 4 Feb 2013 | 5:49 PM ET

  District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan ordered Motey to forfeit $40,000 and to serve a year of supervised release, for conspiracy and securities fraud. In 2005, the Wall Street Journal named Motey a top securities analyst in the semiconductor industry, and a year later he started the Coda Group research consulting company in Los Altos, California.

• Global bank returns likely to stay low into 2017 - McKinsey Wednesday, 23 Jan 2013 | 6:54 AM ET

  NEW YORK, Jan 23- The biggest global banks will have to take steps in the coming years, including cutting compensation and shedding services, to generate adequate returns for their shareholders, consulting firm McKinsey& Co. said on Wednesday.

• Davos bosses hunt $5 trln new revenue in low-growth world Wednesday, 23 Jan 2013 | 3:34 AM ET

  *Firms need $5 trln a year to meet market hopes: Accenture. That is the amount of extra revenue the 1,200 top global companies need to find each year simply to meet analysts' expectations, according to consulting firm Accenture.

• As US drought persists, many scramble to save every drop of water Thursday, 17 Jan 2013 | 1:29 PM ET

  "Everyone is wondering whether this dry weather is the new norm... or an anomaly that will soon pass," said Barney Austin, director of hydraulic services for INTERA Inc, an Austin, Texas- based geoscience and engineering consulting firm. "