U.S.
Economic Cost of January Freeze Put at $5B, Insurance Costs Not Available Yet
Hunkering down at home rather than going to work, canceling thousands of flights and repairing burst pipes from the Midwest to the Southeast has its price. By one estimate, about $5 billion. The ...
W. Va. Chemical Spill Brings State Capital to Standstill
A chemical spill left the water for 300,000 people in and around West Virginia's capital city stained blue-green and smelling like licorice, with officials saying Friday it was unclear when it might ...
State of Core Solutions Transition: Which Tech Priorities Are Being Carried Out?
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You have two watches. Your first watch is analog. It has dials, gears, crystals and movements. It is a machine...
BlackRock Agreement with New York AG Ends Analyst Survey Program
BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset manager, agreed to end its analyst survey program worldwide, as part of an agreement reached Wednesday with the New York Attorney General's office. The ...
Fraud During Harvard Law Days Revealed for SAC Capital’s Martoma
Years before he was accused of insider trading, former SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager Mathew Martoma forged a Harvard transcript, falsified an email, and created a dummy forensic computing ...
FINRA, SEC Targeting Firms Giving Bad 401(k) Rollover Advice
Brokers who give retiring workers bad advice about what to do with their 401(k) plans should expect some headaches: U.S. securities regulators are taking a closer look at what happens when investors ...
Supreme Court to Hear Broadcasters’ Copyright Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a closely watched appeal filed by the four major broadcasters against an online television service, Aereo Inc., backed by media mogul Barry Diller that ...
Senators Looking to Revive Climate Debate
Two of the U.S. Senate's biggest environmental boosters have launched a drive to revive the issue of climate change in Congress and defend President Barack Obama's climate action plan against ...Fast Track Congressional Process Proposed for Trade Agreements
U.S. lawmakers on Thursday proposed a bill to give the White House power to fast-track international trade agreements as the United States gears up for a hectic year of trade negotiations. The bill ...