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...prospect of a trial - not to mention the enormous financial penalties BAE would face if found guilty - was enough to worry some of the firm's investors. The company's stock fell more than 5% Thursday following the SFO's statement. After a checkered few years, BAE's reputation will likely fare little better. Concern for Britain's national security pushed the British government in 2006 to order a halt to a separate SFO probe into allegations that BAE paid bribes to secure business with Saudi Arabia in the mid-1980s. The inquiry into the $69 billion "Al-Yamamah" arms...
...expressed little or no confidence named the recession, concerns about too much government spending or interference, weak government oversight of the capital markets, the volatility in the U.S. stock market, bank failures, corporate greed, job losses, and the home foreclosure crisis as their top concerns...
...Though investors' confidence is up overall, certain doubts remain. Slighlty more than 20% of those surveyed had very little or no confidence in the stock market. Skepticism about company financial reports was a big factor: Approximately 69% expressed no confidence or only some confidence in financial reports, up from...
...stock market has gone up and down, but for decades at Harvard Law School, one thing has remained the same: job security...
...operations notched a pretax profit of $4.5 billion, more than half of it coming from Hong Kong alone. The bank is also continuing to expand in Asia. In China, where HSBC already has the largest branch network of any foreign bank, it is considering an initial public offering of stock on the Shanghai exchange. In May, HSBC completed its acquisition of Bank Ekonomi in Indonesia, almost doubling its number of outlets in that country...