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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By Dane Hamilton and Justin Hyde WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - Federal regulators have launched an investigation into creditor actions in the WorldCom bankruptcy, demanding thousands of documents from bondholders related to the largest U.S. bankruptcy, according to court documents.
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Players in the $2 trillion municipal bond market face investigations.
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New York and Connecticut state officials said they are investigating whether improper behavior by insurance companies has been a factor in the rapidly rising cost of malpractice insurance for lawyers and doctors.
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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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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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A Senate panel is examining complex billing and interest-rate practices for credit cards that critics say confuse consumers and can push them deeper into debt.
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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.
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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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The widening U.S. housing finance  crisis prompted calls in Congress on Thursday for new scrutiny  of bond insurers and credit raters, while Senate Democrats  offered a rescue plan for troubled homeowners.
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Credit counseling agencies may soon be a thing of the past.
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Creditors put more pressure on debt-soaked borrowers.
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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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U.S. regulators, led by the Securities  and Exchange Commission, are probing how financial firms priced  mortgage securities on their books and whether they should have  told investors earlier about the declining value of those  securities, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - Federal regulators have  launched an investigation into creditor actions in the WorldCom  bankruptcy, demanding thousands of documents from bondholders  related to the largest U.S. bankruptcy, according to court  documents.
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The Securities and Exchange  Commission may propose requiring credit rating agencies to  differentiate between corporate bonds and structured finance  products as well as make disclosures around past ratings, the  agency's chairman said on Friday.
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The S.E.C. is looking into whether credit ratings agencies improperly inflated their ratings of mortgage-backed securities.