Category: Latest News
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With bylaw tweaks, Apple grants activist one of three wishes
By Ross Kerber and Stephen Nellis BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc's board relaxed some rules for director nominations by outside investors but stopped short of broader changes sought by an activist shareholder. Just how much influence to give such investors has been a hot topic with the rise of activist shareholders who some executives…
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Yahoo says one billion accounts exposed in newly discovered security breach
Yahoo Inc warned on Wednesday that it had uncovered yet another massive cyber attack, saying data from more than 1 billion user accounts was compromised in August 2013, making it the largest breach in history. The number of affected accounts was double the number implicated in a 2014 breach that the internet company disclosed in…
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Wall Street rises, buoyed by economic data; Dow sets high
U.S. services sector activity hit a one-year high in November, with a surge in production boosting hiring, following on the heels of Friday's employment report that showed strong job gains last month. “A lot of people were negative going into the election, or cautious, so now they’re scrambling year-end to own stocks,” said Alan Lancz,…
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Warren slams Wells Fargo over arbitration position
Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday criticized Wells Fargo & Co's decision to require customers affected by its unauthorized accounts scandal to go through arbitration rather than allowing them to sue. The San Francisco-based bank last week asked a U.S. court to uphold contract clauses that mandate arbitration, something financial firms often use to…
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Wells Fargo faces tighter controls as U.S. regulator reverses course
By Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A leading U.S. bank regulator on Friday reversed course and positioned the agency to claw back pay of former executives at Wells Fargo & Co after a phony-accounts scandal. Friday's move may target executive pay at Wells Fargo at a time when some lawmakers complain bank bosses have not…
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Wall Street slips; indexes still near record highs
The Nasdaq hit a record high earlier in the session, helped by a rise in Microsoft and other big tech stocks. U.S. stocks had been on a tear since Donald Trump's surprise victory in the presidential election last week as his proposals to increase infrastructure spending and reduce taxes are seen benefiting the economy. The…
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Wall Street scion Caspersen gets 4 years in prison for $38.5 million fraud
By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former Wall Street executive Andrew Caspersen was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison for engaging in what prosecutors say was a Ponzi-like scheme to defraud investors including family members and friends out of $38.5 million. Caspersen, who worked at a unit of investment banker Paul Taubman's…
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Wallonia premier says region not opposed to EU-Canada free trade deal
Wallonia premier Paul Magnette said the Belgian region was not opposed to a planned EU-Canada free trade deal in itself but that an arbitration scheme needed to be dropped and public services protected. All 28 EU governments support the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) but Belgium cannot give assent without backing from five sub-federal…