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Some of the nation’s largest financial companies, including Citigroup (NYSE: C), GE Capital (NYSE: GE), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Bank of

By Eric Martin William Ackman said he bought shares of Corrections Corp. of America, giving his Pershing Square Capital Management LP hedge fund a 9.5

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By Kathryn Hopkins One of the City’s leading figures has suggested that inequality created by bankers’ huge salaries is a price worth paying for greater

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard A European super-regulator will have the final say over London’s vast derivatives market and will acquire powers to limit the positions taken

By Allan Sloan This is a quiz. What do the record-high Wall Street bonuses have in common with the record-low yields for savers? Answer: They

By Sam Smith Adam Storch, vice president of Goldman Sachs’ Business Intelligence Group has become head of the SEC’s enforcement division. It doesn’t get much

The Wall Project, the largest commemoration in the US of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, will be staged in Los

By Noah Shachtman America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews