Regulators to probe rating agencies: WSJ
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Regulators plan to probe how the major credit-rating agencies are paid and their independence from Wall Street firms that issue bonds, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Friday.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is probing whether two Dow Chemical Co.  executives engaged in unauthorized talks to sell the company, according to a source close to the matter.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating about a dozen brokerage firms that may have failed to obtain the best price for stocks traded for customers, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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The U.S. Congress is looking into Mattel Inc's procedures for alerting federal regulators about hazardous toys, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Friday.
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Bank of New York Co. Tuesday said regulators are looking into mutual-fund transactions that were cleared by the company's Pershing LLC unit.
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Standard and Poor's Ratings Services said it had its eye on Royal Dutch/Shell for a possible downgrade of the oil company's debt rating in case of a further restatement of its reserves.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining stock sales by an American board member of Societe Generale, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is launching an internal review to recommend changes to the regulatory system to reduce legal and regulatory burdens for U.S. businesses, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on Wednesday.
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US antitrust regulators are investigating possible anti-competitive practices at the American Stock Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange, according to the annual report of the National Association of Securities Dealers.
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A new independent commission that  plans to recommend changes to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act and  other regulations it believes hinder the competitiveness of  U.S. capital markets will be unveiled on Tuesday, The Wall  Street Journal reported.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the investment research firm Morningstar Inc. for failing to properly correct inaccurate data it published about a mutual fund, the company disclosed Friday.
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The US stock market watchdog has asked German justice officials for help probing possible corruption at engineering group Siemens, a spokesman for the federal justice office told AFP on Wednesday.
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US regulators are set to investigate possible violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation on accounting and corporate governance by Fannie Mae&#39;s former senior management.
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The heads of the big three credit-rating companies and their critics will face off Tuesday in a Senate Banking Committee hearing, setting the stage for a regulatory battle over an industry that has eluded controls despite mounting concerns about conflicts of interest, aggressive business practices and a lack of competition and transparency.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange  Commission is examining whether J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. should  have known that the Canary Capital Partners LLC hedge fund was  making improper trades, the Wall Street Journal reported on  Thursday.
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Securities regulators are reviewing whether investment banks' trades in shares of companies linked to M&A deals they were advising were based on coincidence or inside information, according to The Wall Street Journal on Monday.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  board member David Li over an insider trading case linked to News Corp.'s  bid for the Wall Street Journal publisher, Dow Jones reported on Wednesday.