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These concerns, however, take a backseat to those over lightbulbs' environmental impact. Replacing a single incandescent bulb with a CFL in every U.S. household would be the environmental equivalent of taking 7.5 million cars off the road, according to the U.S Department of Energy. The U.S. plans to follow Europe...
If you didn't already feel like a financial ingenue in the wake of last year's Wall Street meltdown and Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, maybe the government's latest insider-trading case will help put you over the top. Federal prosecutors have charged six people with conspiracy...
At issue are a number of purported information leaks, which - if the allegations are proven true - fall into a truly special category of brazenness. For example: a Moody's bond-rating analyst sharing privileged information that the private-equity firm Blackstone was about to buy Hilton Hotels. A senior vice...
Thanks to the FBI's wiretap, the complaints - filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office (criminal) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (civil) - contain some amazingly sordid snippets. In one, Rajaratnam and Danielle Chiesi, a portfolio manager at another hedge fund, apparently discuss how to avoid attracting the attention of...
The case is sending ripples throughout the world of hedge funds, a stratum of high finance that has thus far been largely untouched by the post-meltdown regulatory scrutiny and populist outrage directed at mainstream banks. "This case should be a wake-up call for Wall Street," U.S. Attorney Preet...