Suit Claims Merrill Lynch Hid Losses
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Former First Republic Bank shareholders accuse Merrill Lynch of hiding billions of dollars of losses related to subprime mortgages while the companiesâ merger was pending.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc's  move to accelerate vesting on previously awarded stock-based pay to employees could add to the huge fourth-quarter loss already expected by analysts.
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Merrill Lynch has won a key sex discrimination case brought against it by a former high-flying executive, who had accused the US investment bank of being &quot;institutionally sexist&quot; in a 7.5 million pounds lawsuit.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday sued Putnam Investments parent Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. , alleging the nation's largest insurance brokerage received payoffs from insurers for steering clients to them instead of finding the best prices for its customers.
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Stocks tumbled on Wednesday as a steep quarterly loss at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.  and executives' warnings about possible future problems deepened investors' concern about the credit crisis.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued insurance giants Marsh &amp; McLennan, American International Group and several others Thursday, alleging policy brokers have been taking payoffs from insurance companies to steer corporate clients their way rather
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The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the brokerage firm JB Oxford Holdings and its National Clearing Corporation unit, accusing them of improper mutual fund trading.
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An investor lawsuit has been filed  against Merrill Lynch & Co Inc , contending that the  company issued false and misleading statements about its  exposure to risky mortgage investments, the plaintiffs' lawyers  said on Tuesday.
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Merrill Lynch also took a write-down of more than $14 billion as subprime mortgage woes took another bite out of its balance sheet.
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Stocks recovered from deep losses on Wednesday, amid talk that the Federal Reserve would act to cut the discount rate, the same day that Merrill Lynch rattled markets with its first loss in nearly six years.
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Merrill Lynch &amp; Co Inc  said on Wednesday top executives did not receive bonuses for 2007 after the world's largest brokerage posted $12.1 billion in net losses during the second half of the year.
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(Corrects to show Merrill write-downs and adjustments  totaled about $16 billion instead of $14.1 billion in paragraph  7.)
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LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit filed against Countrywide Financial Corp. on behalf of its employees claims the mortgage lender failed to warn them about the depth of its financial troubles, resulting in heavy stock losses in their 401(k) retirement accounts.
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Merrill Lynch & Co  was sued on Friday by former shareholders of First Republic Bank, who accused the company of hiding billions of dollars in losses related to subprime mortgages while the companies' merger was pending.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  on Wednesday reported $7.9 billion in write-downs for the third-quarter as shaky risk management and bad bets on mortgages and leveraged loans for corporate takeovers triggered the company's first loss in six years.
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Former First Republic Bank  shareholders sued Merrill Lynch & Co  on Friday accusing  the Wall Street investment bank and brokerage of hiding  billions of dollars of losses related to subprime mortgages  while the companies' merger was pending.
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Unwritten assurances from Enron Corp. to keep trying to sell Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.&#39;s $7 million interest in three power-generating barges wasn&#39;ta &quot;legal impediment&quot; to making that investment, an in-house lawyer for the brokerage testified Monday.