Government Agencies SEC

  • Ernst Stavro Blofeld from You Only Live Twice.

    Goldman Sachs plan to offer clients up to $1.5 billion in Facebook equity has many on Wall Street wondering if the vampire squid has a secret plan to force the social network to go public.

  • Facebook

    Felix Salmon raises some interesting questions about Goldman Sachs' stake in Facebook.

  • Capitol Hill Agenda

    Reform of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms might be a good starting place for the Republicans who formally took control of the House of Representatives today.

  • Facebook

    Facebook’s practice of raising capital on private markets largely out of the direct oversight of regulators has spurred an inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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    A new study of American workers displaced by the recession sheds light on the sacrifices a large number have made to find work. Many, it turns out, had to switch careers and significantly reduce their living standards, the NY Times reports.

  • John Alfred Paulson, president of Paulson & Co., Inc, listens during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee November 13, 2008 in Washington, DC.

    Two years after Mr. Paulson pulled off one of the greatest trades in Wall Street history, with a winning bet against the overheated mortgage market, he has managed to salvage a poor year for his giant hedge fund with a remarkable come-from-behind showing

  • New York Stock Exchange

    “In many cases, the conventional wisdom was wrong,” said Byron R. Wien, a veteran market strategist at the Blackstone Group. “The market still managed to do well, and the rise in gold and other commodities was a big surprise.”

  • Steven Rattner

    Forty-eight hours before his swearing in as governor, attorney general Andrew Cuomo has cut a deal with Steve Rattner.

  • If you’re expecting this regulatory body to protect you, think again.

  • Cramer lists the forces that can drive stocks in this ever more complicated market.

  • The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seal hangs on the facade of its building in Washington, DC.

    Investors are turning to private exchanges, like Second Market and SharesPost, to buy shares of non-public companies such as Facebook or Twitter.  This is causing the SEC to take notice.

  • New York Stock Exchange

    ICE Trust, the world’s largest clearinghouse for credit-default swaps, cited “significant changes” to proposed regulations in deciding to withdraw its application, the New York Times reports.

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    A red-hot trading market has developed in the shares of the world’s leading private companies. Now, the SEC wants to learn more about this business.  The New York Times reports.

  • Federal prosecutors asked for the exam after Stanford's court-appointed attorney argued the Texas financier is too heavily medicated to assist in his own defense at a criminal trial scheduled for next month.

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    News on Tuesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Chinese reverse mergers spotlights something I’ve been saying for months if not years: Buyer beware.

  • Julian Assange

    the New York Times reports.

  • Robert Khuzami

    Although it was the Department of Justice and the FBI that took the lead on four insider-trading arrests Thursday, the Securities and Exchange Commission is also conducting its own inquiries, the commission's director of enforcement said Friday.

  • The SEC has just charged Jonathan Star Bristol, an attorney for the former financial advisor Kenneth Ira Starr, with aiding and abetting Bristol's multi-million dollar fraud. The SEC alleges that Starr's crimes involved more than $25 million in stolen funds.

  • Stock chart with dice

    If tax-loss harvesting is on your year-end to-do list, you’ll want to avoid transactions that could nullify those losses.

  • Allen Stanford

    US securities regulators have broadened their investigation into the alleged $8 billion Ponzi scheme run by Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire, to include brokerage executives who invested their clients’ money in Stanford International Bank products, reports the Financial Times.