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New rules under review by the Securities and Exchange Commission may shake up the real estate market by making it easier for investors to pool their resources and acquire property.
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Commentary: Amazon would love Caligula’s sales-tax-free Rome
The U.S. Supreme Court effectively told Amazon.com Inc. this week to become a tax collector.
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Read More »Undoing 1984 tax law could hurt corporate debt
U.S. companies could encounter higher borrowing costs under a congressional tax plan that would reverse a 29-year-old policy making it easier for other countries’ residents to invest in U.S. corporate debt.
Read More »Wall Street trade groups sue CFTC over Dodd-Frank rules
Wall Street’s biggest lobbying groups banded together to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, seeking to curb the overseas reach of its rules and rein in a regulatory barrage by its departing chairman Gary Gensler.
Read More »Commentary: How to prosecute moguls who melted the economy
U.S. prosecutors are showing new resolve in pursuing cases against the financial institutions that sold the shoddy mortgages that led to the global financial crisis of 2007-08.
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Read More »S&P says U.S. fraud case too broad for trial
McGraw Hill Financial Inc.’s Standard & Poor’s unit said the U.S. government has broadened the securities covered in its fraud lawsuit against the ratings company so that the case would be unmanageable at trial.
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Read More »Volcker speculation rule set for Dec. 10 approval
U.S. regulators will meet on Dec. 10 to adopt the final version of the Volcker rule banning banks from making speculative bets with their own money, the agencies said in statements Tuesday.
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Read More »BP wins order stopping some oil spill payments
BP Plc won an appeals court order stopping some payments under a $9.2 billion settlement tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Read More »Commentary: Why the latest corporate tax cut plan will fail
Senator Max Baucus’s misplaced priorities have resulted in an unnecessarily complicated and self-defeating plan.
Read More »Foreclosed sales at auctions nearly double
Purchases of foreclosed homes at auctions jumped in October as banks benefited from surging prices and shunned approvals of sales by homeowners dumping their dwellings at a loss.
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Read More »Traders expect no rate increase until late 2015
The $11.7 trillion Treasury market is betting on history not repeating as the Federal Reserve moves closer to reducing its unprecedented stimulus.
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