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Mini Flash Crashes Caused By Sloppiness, Not A Broken Market: SEC
Unexplained rapid price drops in single stocks have generally been triggered by human error, not nefarious trading activity or high-speed trading algorithms gone wild, an official at the U.S. ...
Microsoft Offers Hefty Bounties To Thwart Hackers
Microsoft Corp. is looking to recruit computer geeks in its ongoing efforts to protect Windows PCs from attacks, offering rewards of as much as $150,000 to anybody who helps identify and fix major ...
Energy Drinks, Office Sitting Breaks, Genetic Bias In Insurance On AMA Agenda
A group representing 225,000 U.S. doctors called for a ban on marketing energy drinks, such as those from Red Bull GmbH and Monster Beverage Corp., to youths. The American Medical Association, in a ...
FSB, FSOC Systemic Insurer Lists Need Alignment, Say U.S. Regulators
Insurers should not be forced to hold extra capital just because of their size, because the extra cost would simply be passed on to consumers, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday. G20 world leaders have ...U.S. Judge Limits Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec Tourre’s Defense In CDO Fraud Case
A federal judge on Wednesday limited the extent to which former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. vice president Fabrice Tourre can argue that he was acting on the advice of company lawyers in his defense ...
Distracted Walking: Injuries Soar For Pedestrians On Phones
More than 1,500 pedestrians were estimated to be treated in emergency rooms in 2010 for injuries related to using a cell phone while walking, according to a new nationwide study. The number of such ...
Bernanke Says Fed Likely To Reduce Stimulus This Year
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday the U.S. economy is expanding strongly enough for the central bank to begin slowing the pace of its bond-buying stimulus later this year. ...
SEC Will Seek Admission of Wrongdoing in More Cases, White Says
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will seek more admissions of wrongdoing from defendants as a condition of settling enforcement cases, the agency's chairman said. SEC Chairman Mary Jo ...