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America's Eyjafjallajokull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... companies reported better than expected earnings results. And guess which one stood out? Goldman Sachs! Yes, the same one facing fraud charges from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC filed a civil lawsuit against the investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... easily beating market forecasts. That lead was enough to at least allay some concerns over US and British probes into alleged fraud at Goldman Sachs, charges the company has forcefully rejected. News of a sharp pick-up in German investor confidence in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... Heffernan said. US stocks clawed back some early loses to finish mixed, with solid bank earnings trumping uncertainty about fraud charges against top Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 73.39 points (0.67 per cent) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... - US stocks clawed back some early loses to finish mixed on Monday, with solid bank earnings trumping uncertainty about fraud charges against top Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 73.39 points (0.67 per cent) ...

Astarra pain spreads to super funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... Astarra was a legacy option it absorbed when it bought NSW TAB. Still, Astarra funds are currently frozen due to an ongoing fraud investigation, which effectively means the affected fund members won't have access to their previous super savings (in the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... not a great start for the trading week after what we heard out of the US, with Goldman Sachs being charged with securities fraud," Ms Saly said. "It was probably the last thing investor sentiment needed. "The... flight ban across Europe is weighing on ...

Goldman Sachs accused of fraud

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Goldman Sachs and one of its vice presidents for fraud relating to subprime mortgages. The SEC is charging Goldman Sachs for defrauding investors by mis-stating and omitting key facts about a ...

Chartwell director charged with $22m fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
Former Chartwell Enterprises director Graeme Hoy was committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court of Victoria on 224 charges brought by ASIC, including ripping $22 million off investors. In August 2009, Hoy was charged with two accounts of carrying ...

Man charged in multi-million dollar fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme - one man has so far pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge in a $150 million bank fraud case. According to reports from the Sydney Morning Herald, Jamieson Vincent, who belonged to a crime group linked with the ...

Attack of the million-dollar virus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... companies have spent an average US$2 million a year fixing or preventing cyber attacks - an amount that keeps growing as online fraud become more sophisticated. Symantec found in the global study that 9 in 10 Australian and New Zealand companies have ...