Rating agencies scrutinized as markets sway
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Credit rating agencies drew  more fire on Wednesday as a powerful U.S. regulator said it was  investigating if their judgment had been colored by money from  customers selling subprime mortgages.
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United States regulators are considering forcing investment banks to make public markets in some of the more exotic financial instruments that have plunged in value in the last six months.
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Looking beyond the market's favorite metric.
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The "tentative" status may be making investors jittery.
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MOODY's Investors Service has placed Slovakia's ratings on review for a possible upgrade.
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Two new papers examine the causes and effects of this Augustâs unwinding in the financial markets.
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Securities regulators are probing  several brokerage firms dealing with collateralized mortgage  obligations, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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U.S. regulators are looking into  whether Wall Street firms are providing insider information on  upcoming offerings, either on purpose or inadvertently, the  Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Politicians, regulators and financial specialists outside the United States are seeking a role in the oversight of American markets, banks and rating agencies.
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Investors who want to add a margin of safety when searching for hot growth stocks may want to consider a new grading system.
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Wall Street had questions. The market had answers.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking at brokerage firms suspected of failing to get customers the best stock prices, people briefed on the inquiry said.
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Be careful when presented with methods that claim to time the market.
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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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For months, securities backed by risky mortgage loans have been in trouble. Now, the credit-rating agencies that once blessed those securities as safe investments are in trouble, too.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating how banks, credit rating firms and lenders valued and disclosed complex mortgage-backed securities that ultimately led to the subprime crisis, a top agency enforcer said on Saturday.
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France and Germany's market watchdogs say they are looking into Citigroup bond trades already under scrutiny in the UK.