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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... restructuring being launched less than three months after CEO Scott Thompson took control, according to a report. NEW YORK - The FBI is investigating whether a Russian billboard company once owned by media giant News Corp bribed local officials to get ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... the US market tonight. News Corp shares continue to lose ground, as the phone-hacking scandal widened to US shores with an FBI probe. News shares had lost 38 cents, or 2.5 per cent, to $14.82, and its non-voting scrip was down 44 cents, or 2.98 per cent ...

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... has been found guilty of nine counts of securities fraud and five counts of conspiracy after a two year case brought by the FBI on allegations of insider trading. The allegations, which forced the closure of the Galleon Group, found that Rajaratnam had ...

US insider trading probe rocks hedge fund community

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... firms with significant presences in Australia. Over the past 48 hours, as part of a wide-ranging insider trading probe, the FBI has raided a number of hedge funds across the country. The first wave of investigations centered around low profile funds ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... 8.3-8.7 per cent last June) and 7.7-8.2 per cent in 2012 (from 7.1-7.5 per cent predicted in June). Then there's the on-going FBI probe of hedge fund insider trading and worse-than-expected existing home sales report for October. At least China's still ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... gets up for review. Oh well, I could always blame it on the Fed - not the US Federal Reserve this time, but the fed as in FBI the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That's the one that the financial markets have not seen coming as their attention were ...

Investors lose $7m in Qld scam

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... Exchange Commission. In December 2009, Hatchett was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for his involvement following an FBI investigation. The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions prosecuted the matter.

FBI hunts down bank fraudsters

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... sending e-mail messages that appear to be official correspondence from banks or credit card vendors. In the latest coup for the FBI and Egyptian authorities, 53 defendants were named in the federal indictment and 47 suspects were identified by Egyptian ...

FBI sting catches $2.4bn mortgage fraud

The US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) swooped down Wall Street after charging more than 400 individuals for mortgage-related fraud and booked two ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund managers with conspiracy and securities fraud. ...

Westpac warns customers about hoax site

... the utmost priority and the bank has taken action to have the site investigated via the Australian Federal Police and the FBI," the bank said. It said customers could check they were linked to the official Westpac internet banking site by checking the ...