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Federal prosecutors and regulators accused two former Wall Street brokers yesterday of defrauding customers by making more than $1 billion in unauthorized purchases of securities tied to subprime mortgages. In an indictment unsealed in federal court in...

Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, introduced a free Web browser to challenge Microsoft Corp.'s decade-long dominance of the market. The program, known as Chrome, shows a series of links to a user's most visited Web pages on...

Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, will offer its own free Web browsing software to challenge Microsoft Corp. The browser, known as Chrome, will be available as a test version for download Tuesday in more than 100 countries,...

The head of Korea Development Bank said early today that the state-owned lender is in talks to acquire troubled U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. KDB Governor Min Euoo-sung said discussions were under way...

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators Wednesday proposed a plan to allow public companies to begin using international accounting standards for reporting financial results in two years, and may require them to do so starting in 2014. The push by the...

NEW YORK -- Stocks are ending sharply lower after worries about American International Group Inc. are stirring concerns about the financial sector. New York-based AIG fell Monday following an analyst's decision to cut his price target on the world's...

Wall Street posted a big advance after the government reported a larger-than-expected increase in orders for big-ticket manufactured goods that indicated the economy is stronger than many investors thought. The Commerce Department said orders for durable...

Merrill Lynch & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank have joined other major financial companies in settling with regulators over their roles in selling risky auction-rate securities to retail investors. The agreements bring to eight the...

New York Atty. Gen. Andrew Cuomo said Friday that he is sending a letter to Merrill Lynch & Co. notifying the investment bank his office will file suit against it as part of a wide-ranging investigation into the collapse of the auction-rate securities...

Regulators looking into the auction-rate securities debacle have turned their attention to nearly 40 brokerages that might have sold the paper to clients but didn't underwrite it. Investigators from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority plan to...

NEW YORK — Regulators looking into the auction-rate securities debacle have turned their attention to nearly 40 brokerages that might have sold the paper to clients but didn't underwrite it. Investigators from the Financial Industry Regulatory...

I am disappointed with the performance of my Nokia Corp. shares this year. Will they be doing any better? — L.H. The world's largest maker of mobile phones recently signed a major deal that could boost its lagging U.S. sales. It signed a 15-...