Prudential shuts down stock research, trading arm
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Prudential Financial Inc.  said  on Wednesday that it will shut down its stock research and  trading business, in the insurer&#39;s latest pullback from a rocky  26-year stay on Wall Street.
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MedImmune Inc.&#39;s cancellation of trials for an arthritis and psoriasis treatment sent the company&#39;s stock lower Monday and helped drag down the entire biotechnology sector.
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Judging from the recent headlines, it would be easy to think that Wall Street&#8217;s private-equity machine shut down for the entire month of August. That would be an exaggeration &#8212; though not by much. Data from Thomson Financial show that the combined value of private-equity-related mergers and acquisitions of United States companies came to just $4.2 [...].
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A plan by US banks to calm down rattled credit markets is dropped shortly before it was due to launch.
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Shares of Atherogenics Inc. opened down 7.2 percent on the Nasdaq Wednesday following a pre-market report that the drug developer is abandoning further clinical trials of its AGIX-4207 treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
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Stocks of branded and generic drug makers closed down a bit Tuesday as clinical study results mixed with merger updates. One of the big winners on the day was Nektar Therapeutics, on news that Exubera, the
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Citigroup Inc. led shares of financial services stocks lower Monday after Japanese regulators ordered the company to close down its private-banking operations, a move that triggered a downgrade from a major Wall Street brokerage.
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Linux supplier Lindows has announced it has called a halt to the initial public offering of its common stock after filing for registration in April.
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Prudential Financial Inc. , the second-largest US life insurer, will shut its 420-person stock research and trading unit, one of the last traces of its failed attempt to become a financial supermarket.
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The stock market fell sharply last week as the subprime mortgage crisis spilled over into the broad financial markets.
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Mortgage giant Freddie Mac announced Monday that it is shutting down some operations of its debt-securities sales division and transferring others - moves that experts said should tighten the company's internal controls after an accounting scandal.
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Risk is knocking Big Pharma stocks down. They won't be getting up anytime soon.
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The Dow Jones industrial average closed down nearly 200 points, or 1.5 percent.
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The doughnut chain reported sharply lower quarterly  earnings on Thursday that missed Wall Street's expectations as  it tries to overhaul operations after being battered by popular  low-carbohydrate diets. Its shares closed at $15.36 on the New  York Stock Exchange.
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A historic name in mutual funds will soon vanish from Boston&#39;s investing scene, with BlackRock Inc.&#39;s agreement yesterday to acquire State Street Research &amp; Management
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Its powerful investment banking train's been halted by credit market meltdown.
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A consortium led by British insurer Prudential PLC has dropped its bid for a major South Korean state asset managing company, officials said.