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...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...Citigroup and Bank of America fell by more than 9 per cent and credit default swaps – which provide insurance against a company’s collapse – increased sharply across the sector on worries about US banks’...
...Pemex takes top issuer spot Petroleos Mexicanos’ revival of a 10bn peso ($746m) local bond sale it scrapped two weeks ago is making the state oil company the biggest issuer in the country as it finances...
...In 2007, when MBIA et al were still considered bullet-proof (at least as far the other rating agencies were concerned), founder Sean Egan projected massive losses for the monoline monoliths – rightly, as...
...No wonder then, that banks like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs et al are peddling the instruments, according to Bloomberg....
...Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (on behalf of) suing in NYC and DC: Bassman v. Syron, et. al (FRE) Agnes v....
...The chief executive of the insurance giant, which had started as a Shanghai-based underwriting agency before being kicked out by the communist regime, had a simple message to convey....
...But MBIA do not tackle adequately the article’s central thrust: that in the event of Eric Dinallo, and the New York State Insurance Department stepping in and taking MBIAs insurance subsidy into receivership...
...by the State Insurance Department (“SID”) and is therefore subject to regulatory risk....
...It transpired, via an FT scoop, that the US banks were coming under pressure from New York’s state insurance regulator to provide as much as $15bn to support the bond insurers....
...Nike sells more than 160m pairs of shoes a year - almost one of every two pairs sold in the United States. One major part of the success of the company has been the brilliant “Just do it” campaign....
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