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Northern Crops Institute announces 2013 short course schedule
Pasta Production and Technology April 16-18, 2013 Fee: $900 This course provides fundamental and applied aspects of manufacturing extruded and sheeted pasta products. Raw material quality criteria, specifications, and processing variables and...Tags: Short Course Swimming, Sports, Financial Markets, Lifestyle and Leisure, Swimming
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Is S&P to blame?
Federal and state prosecutors sued the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's this week for allegedly defrauding investors by giving inflated ratings to complex mortgage-backed securities that proved all but worthless after the housing bubble burst. The...
Tags: Credit Ratings, Finance, Occupy Wall Street, Financial and Business Services, Credit and Debt
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California accuses S&P of deception in $4-billion lawsuit
California has filed suit against Wall Street's biggest credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, charging the firm with violating the state's False Claims Act by using “magic numbers” and “guesses” to inflate ratings that...
Tags: Finance, Credit Ratings, Laws, Bonds, Politics
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Morgan Stanley's Farcical Facebook Settlement
Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin this week accused Morgan Stanley of breaking the law as lead underwriter in Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, triggering a $5 million fine. What had Morgan Stanley done wrong? The...
Tags: Research, Politics, Initial Public Offerings, Social Media, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Ex-Angels player Doug DeCinces indicted in insider-trading case
L.A. NOWFormer Angles baseball player Doug DeCinces and three others were indicted on insider trading charges for allegedly using non-public information to buy stock in a Santa Ana medical device company, federal authorities said Wednesday afternoon.... -
Freddie Mac: 30-year mortgage rate hits 3.4%, highest in 8 weeks
With employment improving and the fiscal cliff averted, fixed mortgage rates have jumped to their highest level in two months, with lenders offering the 30-year home loan at 3.4% this week, up from 3.34% last week, according to Freddie Mac. The...Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Credit Ratings, Freddie Mac, Bonds, Mortgages
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Corporations and execs need penalties that hurt
If you're concerned about corporate crime, 2012 looked like a pretty successful year for the good guys. The Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen paid $762 million in fines and penalties and pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to illegal marketing of...
Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), September 11, 2001 Attacks, Criminals, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Department of Justice
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Fed's easy money will eventually trigger inflation
Bar the door, Nelly — the Fed has abandoned all restraint and will now print money to finance the federal deficit. To support the weak recovery, the Federal Reserve continues to keep short-term interest rates near zero, purchase mortgage-backed...Tags: Finance, Government Debt, Politics, Banking, Money and Monetary Policy
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Fed renews stimulus efforts, ties interest rates to jobless rate
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve, maintaining its aggressive efforts to stimulate a slow-growing economy burdened by high unemployment, said it would continue its large-scale bond-buying programs in the new year and, for the first time, announced...Tags: Finance, Consumer Confidence, Bonds, Employment, Economic Indicator
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T. Rowe Price, Legg Mason get approval to launch active ETFs
Baltimore-based money managers T. Rowe Price and Legg Mason Inc. may offer actively managed exchange-traded funds after receiving a thumbs up from regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission approved Price's application earlier this month to be...
Tags: Research, Legg Mason, Inc., Finance, Personal Finance, Conservation
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Durham sentenced to 50 years in prison for investment scam
Reality caught up with disgraced Indianapolis financier Tim Durham Friday afternoon. A judge sentenced him to 50 years in prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme that took more than $250 million from investors. Standing before federal Judge Jane Magnus-...
Tags: Finance, Lawyers, Judges, Punishment, Prosecution
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Rosenthal: Shivers in Chicago as ICE plans takeover of NYSE Euronext
Never mind that winter is upon us. It is the chill of ICE from Atlanta descending on New York causing goose bumps for those connected with Chicago's trading exchanges. No one knows for certain what the impact will be of upstart IntercontinentalExchange'...Tags: CNBC (tv network), Finance, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Chicago Board of Trade, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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