Connecticut Investigates Major Debt-Rating Agencies
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The Connecticut attorney general opened an investigation yesterday into whether the various ratings agencies had improperly pressured issuers of commercial debt as a condition of doing business with them.
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Massachusetts ordered two prominent Wall Street financial firms on Tuesday to provide information on their subprime research in the first probe by a U.S. state into possible conflicts of interest over the troubled mortgage lenders.
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American Funds and Edward Jones &amp; Co. are among the financial firms that regulators are requesting information from in a sweeping examination into sales and disclosure of 529 college-savings plans.
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US markets regulator the SEC is investigating troubled sub-prime mortgage lender New Century.
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Creditors put more pressure on debt-soaked borrowers.
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British regulators Wednesday began investigating unusual trading activity by Citigroup Inc. in European government bond and bond derivative markets.
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New York State regulators are looking into WellCare Health Plans Inc's  activities as they relate to the state's Medicaid program, a person familiar with the investigation said on Tuesday.
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Authorities are investigating stock sales and accounting errors at the New Century Financial Corporation, which specializes in subprime lending.
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Bear Stearns Cos  is being  investigated by Massachusetts securities regulators over  whether the bank improperly traded with two in-house hedge  funds that collapsed last summer, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Friday.
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who is probing how Wall Street banks packaged and sold mortgage bonds, may use the same powerful state law that predecessor Eliot Spitzer wielded to secure billions of dollars in settlements from investment banks and mutual fund firms, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.
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New Century Financial Corp.  on Tuesday said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the subprime mortgage lender, after the agency recently asked to meet with management to discuss its accounting.
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New York state regulators are looking into WellCare Health Plans Inc's  activities related to the state's Medicaid program, a person familiar with the investigation said on Tuesday.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the near-collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that made bad bets on the mortgage market.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is working with federal investigators to examine whether Yale-New Haven Hospital and other nonprofit hospitals in Connecticut are overcharging government agencies for medical supplies.
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New York State prosecutors are investigating whether Wall Street banks withheld information about the risks posed by investments linked to subprime mortgages.
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Credit counseling agencies may soon be a thing of the past.
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Two leading rating agencies on Tuesday started to slash ratings for more than $17.3 billion of mortgage-related debt, rattling global financial markets amid fears that growing problems in the risky subprime market could spread to the wider economy.