Apple Inc has asked a US District Court in California to ban the sales in the US of more than 20 smartphones and tablets of its rival Samsung Electronics, Bloomberg reported.
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US bank regulators mull Volcker rule tweak
US bank regulators said they would consider allowing banks to hold on to complex securities despite the Volcker rule prohibiting them from owning such and would arrive at a decision in the middle of January.
Illinois educators file class action lawsuit to invalidate pension reform law
Educators in Illinois filed a class action lawsuit in the Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago asking the court to void a new state pension reform law, Reuters reported.
Two Detroit pension funds file expedited appeal for city's bankruptcy eligibility
Detroit pension funds, the General Retirement System and Police and Fire Retirement System, submitted an expedited appeal with the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on a judge's ruling about Detroit's bankruptcy.
Arbitration panel orders Wells Fargo & Co to repurchase auction rate debt
A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel ordered the San Francisco-based brokerage unit of Wells Fargo & Co to buy back auction rate securities amounting to $94 million from its investors.
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Commodity analysts believed that the successive probings into mining deals in India could become a factor in the potential disinterest of investors pouring in funds into the country.
Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Japanese hedge funds posted record returns this year as investors bet that Abenomics will bring the world's third-largest economy back on its feet.
Empire State Building investors on December 24 filed a class-action lawsuit in a Manhattan state court against the New York skyscraper's managers. The said investors claim they were deprived of $410 million in profit in Empire State Building's initial public offering.
The problems of Britian-based insurer RSA is a reminder that politicians, regulators and the general public should also put the spotlight on insurance companies and not just banks.
LightSquared is proposing a new bankruptcy exit plan with financing from Fortress Investment Group and other backers, as the U.S. wireless communications company seeks to avoid a sale to highest bidder Dish Network Corp.
A total of 11 companies, including a subsidiary of online retail giant Alibaba obtained approval from Chinese authorities to be able to purchase mobile services from major providers and repackage them to offer to end users, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Thursday.
Mizuho Financial Group Inc will be seeing its chairman, Takashi Tsukamoto, leaving its post after its lending unit received penalties the second time within a three-month period due to loans it extended to crime groups.
UK Sinha, Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India or Sebi, said firms can be creative in their advertisements to attract investors to their IPOs but they must contain all required disclosures.
Sources said Japan is preparing to introduce guidelines for institutional investors known as the Japanese Stewardship Code, which would improve returns, transparency and corporate governance, Reuters reported.
