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  • Raymond James' Auction Rate Securities Problems Mount
  • Judges Begin to Question "Sweetheart" Securities Regulatory Settlements
  • More Municipal Fraud Charges Ahead?
  • Bubbles in the Bond Markets?
  • Georgia Court Upholds $4.1 Million Damage Award Against SunTrust Robinson Humphrey for Terminating and Defaming a Broker who Sold Auction Rate Securities
  • Has Congress Dumped Unreasonable Hedge Fund Oversight Responsibility on the States?
  • Forbes Magazine Warns Investors about Equity-Indexed Annuities
  • New Jersey Sued by SEC for Securities Fraud
  • It's Not Too Late for Investors to Obtain Recovery of MAT/ASTA Municipal Arbitrage Losses
  • FINRA Investigates CDO Sales Practice Abuses by Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Credit Suisse
  • Morgan Stanley's Research Abuses Continue - The Beat Goes On
  • New Law Provides Big Rewards for Securities Fraud Whistleblowers
  • Citi Knew of Subprime Problems and Risks in 2006
  • Wall Street Banks Seek to Avoid Responsibilty for Checking Out Mortgage Securities They Sell to the Public
  • Law Firms Announce New Joint Venture to Pursue MAT/ASTA Municipal Arbitrage Claims
  • Merrill Lynch Concealed Subprime Risks Using Tricky Tactics
  • Structured Notes Will Be "The Next Bubble" According to Former Federal Reserve Official
  • Senior Citizens are Increasingly Targeted by Swindlers Who are Often Senior Citizens
  • Regulators Expect a Huge Volume of New Securities Fraud Cases Because of Whistlerblower Incentives
  • Investor Alert: Reverse Convertibles Can Be Extremely Toxic
  • NASAA's Top Ten Investment Scams for 2010
  • Regulators Charge TD Ameritrade and Amerivest Investment Management with Fraud
  • Regulators Report that Investment Scams are on the Rise
  • Arbitration Panel Renders an $80 Million Award Against UBS for Improper Sales of Auction Rate Securities
  • Citigroup Affiliates Found Liable for Mismanaging the MAT/ASTA Municipal Arbitrage Funds
  • Citi Pays a Cheap Price for Lying to the Public - When is the SEC Going to get Serious about Fraud?
  • Investors Are Winning MAT/ASTA Claims Against Citigroup/Smith Barney
  • Wall Street Executives Get $1.6 Billion, Main Street America Picks Up the Tab
  • First Republic Municipal Arbitrage Investors Recover Substantial Damages
  • SunTrust Burns Elderly Victims
  • Financial Abuse of the Elderly has become a Growth Business
  • Bondholders Sue Citigroup for Misrepresntations Regarding CDOs and Other Toxic Securities
  • Special Interest Groups and Partisan Politics Thwart Necessary Financial Legislation
  • Is Goldman Getting Off Too Easy in its SEC Settlement?
  • Soon You Will Be Able to Learn More about Your Financial Adviser
  • Brokers Dump Low Quality Securities on Elderly Investors
  • Brokers Continue to Leave Major Wall Street Firms
  • The SEC Bans "Pay to Play" Abuses Associated with the Management of Public Pension Funds
  • Wall Street's Dump of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Preferred Stocks Cost Investors Billions
  • Wall Street's Sale of Toxic CDOs Undermines Education and Other Government Services
  • SEC Investigates Sales of So-Called "Principal Protected" Notes
  • Billionaire Investor Believes that the Economy is Still in the Danger Zone
  • Do Hedge Funds and Insider Trading "Go Hand in Hand?"
  • A Bubble in the Bond Market?
  • Are Exotic Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) an Investment Time Bomb?
  • Goldman Faces Allegations that It Pushed A.I.G. Over the Cliff
  • Municipal Bond Defaults Are Increasing
  • Wall Street Intensifies Efforts to Thwart Financial Reform as Greed Trumps Common Sense
  • SEC Seeks to "Clawback" Benefits from an "Innocent" CEO
  • "Financial Innovation" Benefits Wall Street at Investors' Expense
  • Red Flags Concerning Medical Capital Notes Existed as Early as 2004
  • Page Perry Clients Win MAT Municipal Arbitrage Claims Against Citigroup/Smith Barney
  • Risks Grow in the Municipal Bond Markets
  • It's Time to Stop the Securities Industry's Efforts to Poach High Level SEC Personnel
  • Arbitrators Hammer Credit Suisse Again for Improper Sales of Auction Rate Securities
  • Wealthy Individuals Have Been Victimized By Wall Street's CDO Fraud
  • Local Governments and Non-Profits Have Suffered Catastrophic Losses as a Result of Wall Street's Excesses
  • SEC Expands Investigation of Goldman Sachs CDO Abuses
  • What Is Goldman Sachs Trying To Hide?
  • Wall Street Abuses Have Significantly Increased the Economic Problems Currently Faced by State and Local Governments
  • On A Lighter Note...
  • Credit Union Joins Long Line of Victims Damaged by Toxic CDOs
  • Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Were Far More Volatile than Stocks in the Recent Flash Crash
  • Problems Involving Private Offerings Escalate
  • The FDIC Has Been Left Holding Substantial Toxic CDO Debt
  • Bonds - Is It Time To Be Cautious?
  • Investors Have Sustained Huge Losses Investing in Small Banks
  • Have Municipal Bonds Become High Risk Securities?
  • Were Toxic CDO Investments Deliberately Dumped on Unsuspecting Investors?
  • Lehman Bankruptcy Estate Sues JP Morgan Over Breach of Trust
  • Interest Rate Swaps Sold by Wall Street Banks Decimate Local Government Resources
  • Is HighTower Advisors All That It Claims To Be?
  • Many Brokerage Firms That Sold "100% Principal Protected Notes" Misled Investors
  • Is Goldman Posturing to Settle the SEC's CDO Fraud Claims
  • JP Morgan Reverse Convertibles "Knock Out Investors in the First Round"
  • Wall Street Special Interest Groups Are Spending Huge Sums to Thwart Financial Reform
  • Reverse Convertible Notes Can Be Poisonous for Investor Portfolios
  • Morgan Stanley's Baldwin CDOs - Doomed to Fail?
  • CDO Fraud Probes Explode Across Wall Street
  • Federal Prosecutors Target Morgan Stanley in CDO Fraud Investigation
  • Broker-Dealers Must Be Held to a Real Fiduciary Standard
  • Goldman Sachs and SEC Reportedly Talk Settlement
  • USA Today: Why Financial Reform is Needed
  • Two-Thirds of Americans Want Tougher Financial Regulation of Wall Street
  • Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Plans to Close 120 Offices - Impact on Current Employees Unknown
  • Investors Recover Losses on Main Street Natural Gas Bonds
  • Wall Street's "Moral Corruption" Goes Far Beyond Goldman Sachs
  • Goldman Sachs Refuses to Confirm that "Goldman Puts Its Clients' Interests First
  • Senate Probe Reveals Goldman Sachs' Scheme to Defraud Investors in the Sale of Toxic Securities
  • Goldman Sachs' Problems Continue to Grow
  • SEC Action Against Private Equity Fund Onyx Capital Advisors May Expose Brokerage Firm to Significant Legal Claims
  • Financial Reform - "Put the Fear of God into Wall Street"
  • SEC Scrutinizes Use of Derivatives by Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
  • Goldman - Like CDO Abuses Were Prevalent Across Wall Street
  • Republican Commissioners Opposed SEC Action Against Goldman Sachs
  • USAToday Observes that Wall Street Banks "Are No Longer in the Game for Their Clients but for Themselves"
  • Capital Markets Will Suffer as the Distrust of Wall Street Grows
  • SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud in the Creation and Sale of Subprime CDOs
  • Arbitrators Hammer UBS for Improper Sales of Lehman Principal Protected Notes
  • Wall Street's Breach of Trust
  • Beware of These Investment Scams
  • Regulatory Actions Against Morgan Keegan Raise Grave Doubts about the FINRA Arbitration Process
  • Investors Are Winning Cases Against Wall Street Banks
  • Many Wall Street Banks Disguised CDO Scraps as Tasty Morsels
  • Goldman - Why So Defensive?
  • The Revolving Door at the SEC Compromises Investigations
  • Regulators Sue Morgan Keegan Over Toxic Bond Funds
  • Goldman Sachs Bet Against Toxic Subprime Investments that it Was Recommending to Unsuspecting Investors
  • Was Goldman Sachs Honest in Recommending CDOs and Other Mortgage Backed Securities to Its Clients?
  • Have You Lost Money in a Hedge Fund?
  • Goldman Sachs Unloaded Toxic CDOs and Other Mortgage-Backed Securities on Foreign Investors
  • Is Your Financial Adviser Acting in Your Best Interest?
  • The Brokerage Industry is Winning its Fight Against Financial Reform
  • Municipalities Are Beginning to Understand that They Were Duped by Wall Street
  • The Demise of Lehman Brothers Confirms How Senior Government Officials Abdicated Their Responsibility to the American People
  • More Concerns Arise Regarding Bond Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
  • The Hammer is Coming Down on Private Placement (Reg D) Offering Scams
  • Wall Street Banks and Similar Special Interest Groups Frustrate Meaningful Financial Reform
  • The Majority of Americans Believe that Self-Regulation and Existing Governmental Regulation of the Financial Industry is an Abject Failure
  • It's Official - Most Americans Despise Wall Street
  • Many Investment Scams Target Small Town Investors
  • Life Settlement Investments Carry Big Risks
  • A Primer on Immediate Annuities
  • Beware Private Placements (Reg D Offerings) Investing in Life Settlement Policies
  • Is FINRA Serious about Change or Just Looking for Someone to Blame?
  • Sophisticated Investors Win Millions in Toxic Bond Fund Cases Against Morgan Keegan
  • Is the SEC Finally Going to Act Like Investors Come First?
  • Government Watchdog Calls for Elimination of FINRA
  • Reverse Convertible Notes and Similar Non-Conventional Investments are Unsuitable for Many Investors
  • Hidden Risks Exist in Bond Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
  • Auction Rate Securities Abuses Contribute to State's Financial Woes
  • Former UBS Executive Settles Regulatory Auction Rate Securities Action
  • Morgan Keegan's Legal Costs Soar Under an Avalanche of Claims
  • Tennessee State Court Ruling Undermines Securities Arbitration
  • Is the SEC's Ineffectiveness the Result of Political Discord?
  • Medical Capital Debacle Puts Private (Reg D) Offerings under the Microscope
  • Have College Endowment Funds Been Victimized by Unscrupulous Brokers?
  • Federal Home Loan Bank Sues Securities Firms to Recover Subprime Losses
  • Are Investors Being Adequately Informed about the Risks of Target Date Mutual Funds?
  • Beware the Hidden Risks of Exotic Exchange Traded Funds ("ETFs")
  • JP Morgan Sued For Auction Rate Securities Losses
  • Charles Schwab Confirms Trend of Brokers Breaking Away from Major Firms
  • What Are Exchange Traded Funds?
  • Securities America Faces a New Wave of Medical Capital Problems
  • Exchange Traded Funds ("ETFs") Can Carry Hidden Risks
  • Surprise - Brokerage Industry and SEC Chairman Advocate Less Protection for Investors
  • FINRA Lays Off Senior Enforcement Personnel At The Very Time They Should Be Needed The Most
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - February 5, 2010
  • A Glimpse at How Extensive Investor Abuse Has Been on Wall Street in Recent Years
  • Some Short Term Bond Funds Carry Big Risks
  • Failures in Financial Regulatory System Allowed Wall Street Firms to Run Wild
  • Teachers Sue to Recover Variable Annuity Losses
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 29, 2010
  • Evidence Against Securities America Mounts in Medical Capital Cases
  • Have Municipal Bonds Become High Risk Investments?
  • Broker Sentenced for Fraud in Selling Auction Rate Securities Issued by CDO's
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 22, 2010
  • SEC Adopts New Custody Rules For Investment Advisers
  • Institutional Investors Are Fed Up With Wall Street Pay Excesses Too
  • State Securities Commissioners Need More Authority to Fight Investment Fraud
  • Does the Proposed Bank Tax Adequately Compensate Taxpayers for the Risks?
  • Citi Settles $72 Million Lawsuit Involving Auction Rate Securities
  • Wall Street Firms "Thumb Their Noses" at Taxpayers and Washington Politicians - Award Obscene Bonuses Anyway
  • The Reason Real Change is Needed - Wall Street Maintains a Business as Usual Stance as Public Hearing Begin on the Financial Crisis
  • A Few Basic Considerations in Hiring a Financial Adviser
  • Why Do They Sell Variable Annuities? - It's the Commissions Silly
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 8, 2010
  • Yes, Wall Street can be Replaced - Independent Brokerage Firms and Investment Advisers are Gaining on Big Wall Street Firms
  • FINRA Arbitration Panel Metes Out Harsh Punishment for Elder Fraud
  • Exotic New Junk Bonds are Fraught with Risk
  • SunTrust Hit with $4.1 Million Damage Award for Terminating and Defaming a Broker who Sold Auction Rate Securities
  • The Auction Rate Securities Debacle Continues - Corporate America Takes on Wall Street
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 1, 2010
  • Regulators Express Concerns about "Principal-Protected" and "Capital Guaranteed" Investments
  • The Lack of Government Enforcement Actions Facilitated the Recent Epidemic of Investment Fraud
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 25, 2009
  • Wrongdoing in Reg D Offerings and Other Private Investments Becomes a Growing Concern
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 18, 2009
  • SEC Expands Investigation of Merrill Lynch/Bank of America Transaction
  • The Beat Goes On - Schwab Loses Another Schwab YieldPlus Case
  • Less Than 15 Days are Left for Schwab YieldPlus Investors to Preserve their Rights
  • Investor Alert: Main Street Natural Gas Bonds Backed by Lehman Brothers
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 11, 2009
  • The Dangers of Private Investments (Reg D Offerings) Grow
  • Investors in Lehman Principal-Protected Notes Have an Opportunity to Recoup Their Losses
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 3, 2009
  • Wall Street Recruiting Packages Put Customers At Risk
  • Investors Sue to Recover Losses on Main Street Natural Gas Bonds
  • Dow Corning Files Another Auction Rate Securities Lawsuit
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 27, 2009
  • Wall Street Shows its True Colors - Tries to Undermine Application of a Real Fiduciary Standard to its Activities
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 20, 2009
  • Only 40 Days Left for Schwab YieldPlus Investors to Preserve their Rights
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 13, 2009
  • Reg D Offerings and Other Private Investments Expose Investors to Huge Risks
  • BB & T Sued over Auction Rate Securities Abuses
  • Medical Capital Holdings Alert - Investors Face Tremendous Losses
  • Financial Abuse of Senior Citizens is a Growing Problem but Remedies are Available
  • Time is Running Out on Schwab YieldPlus Investors who Want to Opt Out of the Class Action
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 6, 2009
  • Examinations of Investment Advisers Are Becoming More Demanding
  • Private Investments (a/k/a Reg D Investments) Pose Significant Risks to Investors
  • Have You Lost Money in ETF's?
  • Schwab YieldPlus Investors Should Consider Their Options
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 30, 2009
  • Credit Suisse Sued Again over Auction Rate Securities Abuses
  • It's Time to Eliminate Industry Bias from Securities Arbitration
  • Ameriprise Settles Deceptive Sales Practices Charges
  • The SEC Must Adopt an Aggressive Enforcement Program if it is to Restore its Credibility
  • Court or Arbitration - Brokerage Firms Want to have their Cake and Eat it Too
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 23, 2009
  • California Sues State Street Bank and Trust
  • Arbitration or Class Action - Which is Better for Investors?
  • FINRA "Missed Opportunities" to Stop Madoff and Stanford Ponzi Schemes
  • SEC Threatens Action Over Schwab YieldPlus Fund
  • Congress Considers Regulation of OTC Derivatives
  • Jury Finds That Allianz Life Insurance Company Used Misrepresentation Or Deceptive Practice In Selling Its Two-Tiered Annuities
  • Investors Sue the SEC
  • Investor Alert: Schwab YieldPlus Class Notice Issued
  • Wall Street's Defense Tactics Confirm Betrayal of Corporate Clients
  • Now is the Time for Serious Financial Reform
  • Abuses in Credit Card Arbitration Raise Similar Questions about Securities Arbitration
  • More Criticism is Leveled at Federal Securities Regulators
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 2, 2009
  • The Beat Goes On - Hedge Fund Manager Wins Large Award in Schwab YieldPlus Case
  • Market Watchdog is a Market Speculator
  • Wall Street Doesn't Want to Hear the Truth - In Fact, the Truth May Get You Fired!
  • Malpractice Reform - The Other Side of the Story
  • Medical Capital Holdings Update: Receiver Estimates Over $1 Billion Due Investors
  • Where is the Accountability of our Financial Regulators?
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 25, 2009
  • Wall Street Firms Want a "Free Pass" for Ripping Off State and Municipal Governments
  • Moody's Whistleblower to Testify before Congress on Ratings Fraud
  • Judge Tells the SEC and Bank of America to Fight it out in Court
  • Regions Bank's SEC Problems Grow
  • Federal Judges are "Throwing the Book" at Securities Scoundrels- When are the Regulators Going to Join the Party?
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 18, 2009
  • Court Ruling Paves Way for Legal Claims against Credit Ratings Firms
  • Investor Wins Full Market Adjusted Damages in Schwab YieldPlus Case
  • Hedge Fund Sues UBS for Selling "Crap" and "Vomit"
  • Inspector General Continues to Blast SEC
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 11, 2009
  • Investors Recover Damages Plus Attorneys Fees from Schwab in Schwab YieldPlus Case
  • Court Certifies Schwab YieldPlus Class Action but Leaves Many YieldPlus Investors "Out in the Cold"
  • Auction Rate Securities Debacle Reveals Wall Street's Betrayal of Corporate Investors
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 4, 2009
  • More Toxic Structured Finance Securities are on the Way to Market
  • Concerns about Leveraged Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Increase
  • Inspector General Criticizes SEC Oversight of Credit Ratings Firms
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - August 28, 2009
  • Investor Sues Nuveen, Merrill, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank over Auction Rate Securities
  • Regulators Issue Warnings about Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) and Other Toxic Investments
  • The SEC Simply Does Not Have Sufficient Resources To Do Its Job
  • Despite Assurances to Investors, Schwab Doesn't Want to Play by the Rules
  • How Much did Securities America Really Know about Problems at Medical Capital Holdings?
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - August 21, 2009
  • State Street's Subprime Woes Continue
  • Auction Rate Securities Class Action Dismissed When Brokerage Firm Buys Back Holdings of Investor
  • More Investor Claims Focus on Sales of Preferred Stocks Issued by Financial Institutions
  • Securities Regulators Questioned about Dropping the Ball
  • Bad News for Brokerage Firms that Sold Auction Rate Securities
  • Small Brokerage Firms Are Attracting Big Firm Traders
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - August 14, 2009
  • Norwegian Cities Sue Citigroup to Recover Losses in Tender Option Bond Funds
  • SEC Settlement with Bank of America Hits a Roadblock
  • Is the SEC's Recent Activity the "Real Thing?"
  • Class Action Filed Over Leveraged and Inverse ETF Securities
  • Raymond James Ignores Customers to Whom it Sold Auction Rate Securities
  • Morgan Keegan Continues "Hardball" Arbitration Tactics
  • False Valuations of Structured Finance Securities Continue to Concern Regulators
  • Major Wall Street Firms Losing Customers
  • Sales of Leveraged and Inverse ETFs Expose Wall Street Firms to Liability for Misrepresentation and Unsuitable Recommendations
  • Judge Refuses to Rubber Stamp SEC Settlement with Bank of America
  • Large Investors Are Pursuing Auction Rate Securities Claims
  • Regulators Investigate Sales of Leveraged and Inverse ETFs
  • Bank of America Pays $33 million to Settle with the SEC
  • SEC Charges Medical Capital Holdings and Provident Asset Management with Fraud
  • Beware Leveraged and Inverse Exchange Traded Funds
  • SEC Cracks Down on Phoenix Investment Fraud
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - July 31, 2009
  • It's Time for Arbitrators to Grant Investors Access to the SEC Evidence that Morgan Keegan Is Trying to Hide
  • Elder Fraud Cases Lead to More Criminal Prosecutions
  • Senior Citizen Accuses UBS of $26 Million Fraud
  • Insurance Companies Try to Thwart SEC Oversight of Equity Indexed Annuities
  • Wall Street Trade Association Supports Fiduciary Standard
  • Morgan Stanley Sanctioned for Misleading Investors about Money Managers
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - July 24, 2009
  • Leveraged and Inverse Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) Are Dangerous to Investors Financial Health
  • SEC Charges Morgan Keegan with Fraud in the Sale of Auction Rate Securities
  • New York Attorney General Notifies Schwab of Intent to Sue over Auction Rate Securities Fraud
  • SEC Notifies Morgan Keegan of Intent to Recommend Enforcement Action Involving Toxic Mutual Funds
  • Regulators Settle Auction Rate Securities Claims Against TD Ameritrade
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - July 17, 2009
  • Regulators Investigate Fraud in the Municipal Bond Market
  • Wall Street Firms Still Don't Get It - They Continue to Sell Toxic Securities as AAA Investments
  • Ameriprise Pays $17 Million to Resolve Conflicts of Interest Claims
  • UBS Will Retain Its Wealth Management Business For The Time Being
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - July 10, 2009
  • UBS Sued For CDO Scam
  • How Far Should Brokerage Firms Be Permitted To Go In Investigating Employees?
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - July 3, 2009
  • Broker Defections from Major Wall Street Firms on the Rise
  • Pending Legislation to End Mandatory Securities Arbitration?
  • Investors Need to be Careful with Target-Date Mutual Funds
  • JPMorgan Sued for Sale of High Risk, Illiquid Real Estate Investments
  • Lehman Brothers Hit with $190 Million Suit over Auction Rate Securities
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - June 26, 2009
  • "100% Principal Protected Notes" - Designed to Deceive?
  • Danger Ahead for Investors in Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
  • It's Time to Make Securities Arbitration Completely Neutral
  • Toxic Securities Alert: Reverse Convertibles
  • Investors Left Out of the Auction Rate Securities Regulatory Settlements Are Suing to Recover Losses
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - June 19, 2009
  • Wall Street's "Fiduciary Duties" Should Be Formalized
  • Obama Proposal Urges Review of Mandatory Securities Arbitration
  • Schwab Sued for Deceptive Sales of Lehman Principal Protected Notes
  • Book Review: The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street
  • Aura Financial Services Hit with Multiple Regulatory Charges
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - June 12, 2009
  • The Mortgage-Backed Securities Market - Is the Other Shoe Getting Ready to Drop?
  • FINRA Proposes Improving Disclosures about Brokers' Backgrounds
  • Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley "Tie the Knot"
  • SEC's Aguilar Stands Up for Investors - Let's Hope Someone Listens
  • Auction Rate Securities Update: Why Are The Regulators Ignoring Raymond James's Customers?
  • Evergreen Pays Over $40 Million to Settle SEC Charges that it Overvalued Mortgage-Backed Investments
  • It's Time for Better Regulation of the Financial Markets
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - June 5, 2009
  • 2009: A Very Bad Year for Georgia Banks
  • OppenheimerFunds 529 Plans Under Fire
  • Let's Give State Securities Regulators the Tools to do their Job
  • Addressing Recent Wall Street Misconduct Requires The SEC to Adopt Creative Approaches
  • Wall Street Firms Battle Over Assets Under Management
  • Variable Rate Annuities with Guarantees? - Check the Fine Print
  • Merrill Lynch Accused Of Insider Trading "Down Under"
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - May 29, 2009
  • Is the SEC Willing to Sue the "Big Boys" for Misleading the Public Regarding the Risks of Structured Finance Securities?
  • Equity Indexed Universal Life - Typically a Bad Idea
  • Public Confidence in SEC Sinks to New Low
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - May 22, 2009
  • Virginia Files Suit Over Auction Rate Securities
  • States Are Acting to Deal with Financial Frauds Aimed at Seniors
  • Alabama Judge Files Shareholder Derivative Action Against Regions' Executives
  • SunTrust Backs Out Of Deal To Pay Back Investor Losses
  • Regulators Require Financial Firms to Provide More Public Disclosure Regarding Customer Complaints
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - May 15, 2009
  • Auction Rate Securities - Morgan Keegan's Latest Problem
  • The Obama Administration Proposes to Regulate Derivatives
  • Bank of America's Attempts to Strong-Arm Fired Employees May Result in Legal Liability
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - May 8, 2009
  • Wall Street Firms Still Preoccupied with Big Sales not Good Advice
  • Is the SEC Really Serious about its Vow to Regulate Credit Derivatives?
  • Wall Street Firms Try to Make Others the Scapegoat for Problems of their Own Making
  • Securities Credit Ratings Agencies Under Attack
  • Morgan Keegan Loses Two More Toxic Bond Fund Cases
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - May 1, 2009
  • Issuers of Auction Rate Securities And Their Executive Officers Are Being Hit With Legal Actions
  • Auction Rate Securities Article Raises Questions about FINRA's Commitment to the Protection of Investors
  • Questionable Sales Practices Haunt Fidelity
  • OppenheimerFunds Confronting Big Mutual Fund Problems
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - April 24, 2009
  • Registered Investment Advisors Have Liability Exposure for Imprudent Recommendations of Asset Managers
  • Ashland, Inc Sues Oppenheimer for Mismarketing Auction-Rate Securities
  • More Corporate Clients Sue Citigroup Over Auction-Rate Securities
  • Investor Awarded Losses, Costs and Attorneys Fees in Morgan Keegan Bond Case
  • Bank of America Ordered To Pay $2 Million To Atlanta Couple
  • Corporate Fraud Needs to be a Government Priority
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - April 17, 2009
  • Franchise Fraud Claims Increase as Economy Deteriorates
  • Big Banks Continue "to Bite the Hand that Feeds Them
  • Morgan Keegan Hit for $950,000 Loss on Toxic Bond Fund Case
  • UBS Expected to Cut Thousands of More Jobs
  • Tobacco Settlement Bonds Give Rise to Legal Claims
  • Now is the Best Time to Review your Investment Portfolio
  • Financial Scams Are Becoming More Common as the Economy Deteriorates
  • Corporations and Institutions Are Actively Pursuing Auction-Rate Securities Claims
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - April 10, 2009
  • Investors Beware: Commodities Scams are on the Rise
  • Financial Advisors May Have Legal Exposure in Atlanta Ponzi Scheme
  • State Securities Regulators: An Essential Component of Investor Protection
  • Money Market Funds "Feeling the Heat"
  • Securities Arbitration Claims Explode
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - April 3, 2009
  • Financial Accounting Standards Board Approves Fictitious Valuations - Is Anything Sacred Anymore?
  • The News Continues to get Worse for Morgan Keegan and its Toxic Bond Funds
  • Arbitrators Have an Important Role in Keeping the Financial Markets Honest
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - March 27, 2009
  • Criminal Investigations into Financial Fraud - "Window Dressing" or a Serious Trend?
  • State Pension Fund Sues Lehman Executives
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - March 20, 2009
  • Arbitration Panel Compensates Investor for Losses Sustained in Morgan Keegan Bond Funds
  • Wells Fargo's Auction-Rate Securities Problems Mount
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - March 6, 2009
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - February 27, 2009
  • Suit Against Moody's Allowed to Proceed
  • It Is Time To Give Investors Back Their Rights
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - February 20, 2009
  • Things Continue to Get Worse for Auction-Rate Securities Investors
  • "Downstream" Broker-Dealer Sues Merrill Over Auction-Rate Securities
  • SEC Charges R. Allen Stanford In Huge Fraud
  • Corporate Investors Holding Auction-Rate Securities Face Scrutiny by the SEC
  • SEC and FINRA Regulatory Actions - To Fight or To Settle
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - February 13, 2009
  • Corporate Investor Wins $400 Million on Auction-Rate Securities Claim
  • Elimination of Bonuses Creates Discontent on Wall Street
  • Lehman Underwriters Under Attack
  • Corporations Begin Holding Wall Street Accountable for the Auction-Rate Securities Debacle
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - February 6, 2009
  • Employee Lawsuits Explode as Layoffs Rise
  • Investment Advisors and Broker Dealers Will Face More Scrutiny After Madoff
  • Wall Street Misled Issuers of Auction-Rate Securities Too
  • More Dishonesty from Wall Street - This Time Cheating State and Local Governments as well as Taxpayers
  • Washington State Sues Wells Fargo Over Auction-Rate Securities
  • It's Time to Stop Letting Wall Street Judge Wall Street
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 30, 2009
  • Wall Street's Greed Knows No Bounds
  • Citigroup Continued to Sell Auction-Rate Securities Despite Knowledge of "Cracks Forming in the Market"
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 23, 2009
  • Understanding Brokers' Suitability Obligations in the Era of CDOs, Interest Rate Swaps and Auction-Rate Securities
  • Tick-Tock: Spurned Auction-Rate Securities Investors Need to Monitor the Clock
  • Sophisticated CDO and Structured Finance Investors Have Rights Too
  • Unapproved Investments Cause Ameriprise Big Problems
  • Raymond James Refuses Auction-Rate Securities Buyback - Leaves Its Clients "Out In The Cold"
  • CDO Investors Recover $550 Million From Brokerage Firm
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 16, 2009
  • Variable Annuities Warrant Close Scrutiny
  • Clock Strikes Midnight for Many CDO and Structured Finance Investors
  • School Districts Face Huge Losses in CDOs
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 9, 2009
  • Many Investors Discover That It's Not "Just the Market"
  • Considerations for your Annual Investment Checkup
  • Don't Fall into the Equity Indexed Annuity Trap
  • "Fair Value Accounting Rule" Puts Auditors on the "Hot Seat"
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - January 2, 2009
  • Investors Need to Scrutinize their Year-end Brokerage Statements
  • FINRA Needs Arbitrators
  • CNN Poll Confirms Public's Distrust of Wall Street
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 19 , 2008
  • Some Tips for Victims of the Madoff Ponzi Scheme
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 12 , 2008
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - December 5 , 2008
  • Not All Auction Rate Securities Investors Are Getting Their Money Back
  • Additional Job Cuts on Wall Sreet
  • Is Your Variable Annuity Safe ?
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 21 , 2008
  • Deutsche Bank Cutting Investment Banking Jobs
  • Where is the Transparency ?
  • Citigroup To Lay Off 50,000 More Employees
  • World's Largest Mutual Fund Company Lays Off Employees
  • The Fall Of The House Of Merrill
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 14 , 2008
  • Citigroup Slashes More Jobs
  • Excessive Secrecy And The Bailout
  • Structured Notes Issued by Lehman, Freddie and Fannie Leave Conservative Investors Burned
  • Bank of America Agrees to Recruiting Protocol
  • Wall Street to Cut 70,000 Additional Jobs ?
  • World's Largest Mutual Fund Company To Lay Off 1300 Workers
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - November 7 , 2008
  • Employees May Have Legal Claims For Sharp Declines In 401(k) Accounts
  • Will Merrill Brokers Stay at Bank of America ?
  • Market Volatility Under Investigation
  • UBS Faces a Deluge of Claims for Selling Risky Lehman Structured Notes as Safe Investments
  • Are Credit Ratings Agencies Just a Bunch of Bull?
  • Market Rebound Could Take Five Years
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 31, 2008
  • ERISA Fiduciaries May Have Obligations to Seek Recovery of Portfolio Losses
  • Former SEC Chief Wants to Put the Fox in Charge of the Henhouse - They Still Don't Get It
  • Credit Ratings Agencies Offer Excuses to Congress
  • Merrill Brokers Likely to Flee Tarnished Brand
  • Wall Street and Government Officials are "Shocked" about the Current Mess
  • AIG Brokers in Turmoil - Advisors Who Jump Ship Should Protect Themselves Legally
  • Wall Street's Downsizing Increases the Need for Legal Services
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 24, 2008
  • Some Layoffs Are More Equal Than Others
  • Has Wall Street Destroyed Itself As A Financial Center?
  • Bank Shareholders: Is Your Bank Too Troubled And You Won't Find It Out?
  • Regulatory Rehab
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 17, 2008
  • Wall Street Still Doesn't Get It
  • Investors May Be Able to Recover Losses in Lehman Securities
  • Credit Crisis Continues to Haunt Merrill Lynch
  • UBS Receives a Bailout
  • Citigroup Takes Big Write Downs
  • Variable Annuities: Usually Bad For Investors, Now Bad For Insurers As Well
  • Brokers' Failures to Recommend Reasonable Asset Allocation Strategies Have Caused Huge Losses
  • Schwab Loses Big in a YieldPlus Case
  • "Barking Madness" or How Excessive Ambition Kills
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - October 10, 2008
  • Financial Stocks Continue to Fall
  • Auction-Rate Securities Settlements Likely to Offer Many Complexities and Pitfalls for Investors
  • Losses on Securities Issued by Financial Firms Give Rise to Unsuitability and Misrepresntation Claims
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor -October 3,2008
  • Ten Reasons that the $700 Billion Bailout Plan for Wall Street is a Colossal Mistake
  • Only Yesterday - When Banks and Broker-Dealers Were Combined
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 19,2008
  • Government Bailouts Place Significant Risks on U.S. Economy and Taxpayers
  • FINRA Announces Auction-Rate Securities Settlements with More Firms
  • Fed Bailouts - Where Do They End?
  • Money Market Funds "Break the Buck"
  • The Fed Bails Out AIG
  • Credit Suisse Enters into Auction-Rate Securities Settlement with Regulators
  • Suitability Claims Expected to Rise as Market Meltdown Continues
  • Realistic Valuations of Subprime Securities Likely to Cause a Tidal Wave of Losses Across Wall Street
  • Lehman Seeks Bankruptcy Protection
  • Bank of America Acquires Merrill Lynch
  • Fidelity Reaches Auction-Rate Securities Settlement
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 12, 2008
  • Bank of America Announces Settlement of Auction-Rate Securities Probe
  • Wall Street Firms Expected to Face Doom and Gloom in the Months Ahead
  • SunTrust Considers Settling Auction-Rate Securities Investigations
  • Something Old is New Again- Penny Stocks in the News
  • Page Perry's Market Monitor - September 5, 2008
  • Brokerage Firms Face Suits Over Auction-Rate Securities Issued by CDOs and Other Structured Finance Vehicles
  • Many Auction-Rate Securities Investors May Be Left to Fend for Themselves
  • Will Lehman Brothers Survive?
  • Morgan Stanley Executive: Economic Pain Just Beginning
  • Bank of America Told to Settle its Auction-Rate Securities Problems or Else
  • SEC Charges Credit Suisse Brokers in Auction-Rate Securities Fraud Scheme
  • What's Going On With Auction-Rate Securities Investigations?
  • Jefferson County, Alabama Staves Off Bankruptcy
  • Visteon Investor Claims May Not Be Barred by Dismissal of Class Action
  • Corporations and Institutions Left to Fend for Themselves in Auction-Rate Securities Debacle
  • ShoreTel Risks and Related Losses Should Have Been Anticipated
  • Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank Join Long List of Firms Settling Auction-Rate Securities Probes
  • More and More Experts Paint a Bleak Picture for the U.S. Economy
  • Bank of America Withheld Important Information about Auction-Rate Securities from Investors
  • Wachovia Joins Auction-Rate Securities Settlement Parade
  • Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Get in the Auction-Rate Securities Settlement Line
  • Economic Forecast: Expect Things to Get Much Worse
  • More Auction-Rate Securities Regulatory Actions On The Horizon
  • Morgan Stanley’s Auction-Rate Securities Proposal – “Too Little, Too Late”
  • The Fed's Plan to Fund Wall Street's Corruption
  • More Auction-Rate Securities Settlements Ahead?
  • UBS Will Buy-Back $19.4 Billion of Auction-Rate Securities to Settle Regulatory Actions
  • Merrill Lynch Follows Citigroup's Lead- Attempts to Resolve Certain Auction-Rate Securities Claims
  • Citigroup Reaches Agreement, in Principle, to Settle Certain Auction-Rate Securities Claims
  • Morgan Stanley Admits it Mismarketed Auction-Rate Securities to Massachusetts' Municipalities
  • Early Retirement Scams are on the Rise
  • State Sues Merrill Lynch For Fraud In The Sale Of Auction-Rate Securities
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  • FINRA Announces Pilot Program To Evaluate All-Public Arbitration Panels
  • Blue Cross/Blue Shield Of Georgia Exposes Social Security Numbers And Other Personal Information
  • Investor Misrepresentation And Omission Claims Escalate
  • The Latest Threat To Investors
  • Wachovia's Woes Continue
  • Should Investors Sell Their Illiquid Auction Rate Securities?
  • Securities Arbitration Study Is Disappointing But Does Not Tell The Whole Story About Investor Recoveries
  • Wall Street Firms Knew That Failure of the Auction Rate Securities Market Was Imminent
  • Check Out Your Broker
  • States Raid Wachovia Securities Regarding Auction Rate Securities Abuses
  • Has Washington's Bailout Of Wall Street Banks Compromised The SEC's Ability To Regulate And Protect The U.S. Capital Markets?
  • SEC Finds "Serious Shortcomings" At Credit-Ratings Agencies
  • Investor Suitability Claims on the Rise
  • Washington's Bailout Of Financial Firms May Put The United States' AAA Credit Rating At Risk
  • UBS Plans to Repurchase $3.5 Billion of Auction Rate Preferred Shares
  • Washington Opens The Vault For Wall Street Firms, Slams The Door On Main Street America
  • IndyMac Fails Amid Mortgage Problems - FBI Investigates
  • Federal Prosecutors Target Auction Rate Securities Abuses
  • Massachusetts Hits UBS with Fraud Charges Over Auction-Rate Securities
  • Could the Unthinkable Happen- Could Money Market Funds Lose Value?
  • Securities Newsletters Turn More Pessimistic
  • Main Street America Believes We Are in a Recession
  • The Housing Market Continues to Spiral Downward
  • The Hidden Costs of Investment Advice
  • Bear Market Ahead!
  • Credit Crisis only in "4th Inning"
  • Investors Beware: Warren Buffet Believes "Recession Getting Worse"
  • 175,000 Wall Street Jobs May Be Going, Going, Gone
  • Former Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers Indicted
  • Citi's Write Downs Continue
  • Investors Lose Big As Wachovia Subsidary Liquidates Evergreen Ultra Short Opportunities Fund
  • Should Investors Switch to Cash in Order to Avoid a "Very Nasty Period"?
  • FINRA To Broker/Dealers - Let The People Sell Their Auction Rate Securities
  • Wall Street CEOs Too Optimistic?
  • Home Equity Falls To Lowest Level Since World War II
  • Have Things Changed At World Financial Group?
  • Sign Of The Times: Foreclosure Bus Tour
  • Paulson: Financial Turmoil Will End In "Months"
  • S&P Slashes Ratings Of Wall Street Banks
  • Home Prices Continue To Fall Fast
  • Retiring Baby Boomers: Fewer Than Expected
  • Falcon Investors: What Are You Releasing?
  • Oil And Other Energy Investment Scams Likely On The Rise
  • Exodus From Citigroup Becoming A Tsunami?
  • Background Check On Financial Advisors May Be Improved
  • Oracle Of Omaha: US Is Less Than Halfway Through Credit Crisis
  • Regional Banks Writing Off Residential Construction Loans
  • Holders Of Student Loan-Backed Auction Rate Securities Facing Endless Winter?
  • JP Morgan Chase Lays Off 200 Executives
  • Auction Rate Losses Costing Public Companies Over $1.8 Billion
  • Short-Seller Einhorn Takes Lehman To Task
  • Credit Crisis Viewed As Extending Into 2009
  • Home Price Index Reflects Record Continued Decline
  • UBS Suffers Loss Of $7 Billion On Sale Of Loans And Plans Sale Of New Shares At Discount
  • How The Ailing Economy May Affect Your Nest Egg
  • "Color-Blind In A Sea Of Red Flags"
  • Stealth Layoffs Hit Wall Street
  • Foreclosures In April Up A Surprising 65%
  • Cornerstone Ministries Investors May Have Legal Claims Against Brokerage Firms Or Financial Advisors
  • FINRA: Beware Early Retirement Scams
  • Fixing Wall Street?
  • Mortgage Crisis Hits Prime Loans
  • With 50,000 Layoffs So Far This Year, Wall Street Employees Must Protect Themselves
  • UBS Will Pay $35 Million To Redeem Auction-Rate Securities Sold To Massachusetts' Cities
  • Jim Rogers Contradicts Wall Street -- The Worst Is Yet To Come
  • Wachovia Receives Auction-Rate Securities Subpoenas
  • More Subprime And Alt-A Mortgages Heading Underwater
  • Internationally Famous Economist Disputes Wall Street's Claim That "The Worst Is Over"
  • Morgan Stanley To Lay Off Five Percent of Work Force
  • Ex-Bear Stearns Broker Sentenced For Insider Trading
  • UBS Will Cut 5500 More Jobs
  • Foreclosures Rising And Home Prices Falling At Unprecedented Rates
  • SEC: Atlanta Is A Hotbed Of Investment Fraud
  • Citigroup Mismarketed Internal Hedge Funds
  • Borrowers Still Struggle To Deal With Delinquent Mortgages
  • Adding Insult To Injury: Auction-Rate Bond Investors Get Almost 0% Interest On Securities They Cannot Sell
  • Economists Pessimistic, Recession Expected
  • S&P Predicts Massive CDO Losses
  • Housing Slump Possibly Exceeding That Observed During The Great Depression
  • This Time Around, Bondholders May Only Get 10 Cents On The Dollar
  • Former Bear Stearns Manager Is The Prime Subprime Suspect
  • Schwab Admitting Responsibility For Mis-Marketing Its Yield Plus Fund?
  • Wall Street Firms Hid Auction-Rate Securities Market Problems From Public For Months
  • Seven Morgan Keegan Funds Get New Manager
  • Bear Stearns Probe Abruptly Ended By SEC
  • Where Will Citigroup Brokers And Wealthy Clients Go?
  • Congress Is Concerned About The Ratings Agencies' Conflicts Of Interest
  • The Fed Reports A Weak Economy Coupled With Rising Prices
  • March Foreclosures Jump 57% As Housing Woes Increase
  • Citigroup Admits That All Types Of Auction-Rate Securities Have Lost Value
  • New York Attorney General Launches "Industry" Probe into Auction-Rate Securities
  • "Pink Slips" Flood Wall Street
  • Companies Targeted In FBI Subprime Mortgage Investigations
  • States Expand Probe Into Auction-Rate Securities
  • Lehman Uses Securities Backed By Unsold Loans To Borrow From The Fed
  • Citibank: Auction Rate Securities Market Will "Cease To Exist"
  • "Tranche Warfare" Over CDOs
  • U.S. Recession Predicted By Most Experts Increases The Risk Of Mortgage Investments
  • Merrill Faces Additional Mortgage Losses
  • $331 Billion Auction Rate Market Set to Shrink by $51 Billion
  • UBS's Magnus Warns Of Economic Death Spiral
  • Ratings For Bond Insurer FGIC Lowered 3 Levels To Just Above Junk
  • Money Market Funds Still At Risk
  • With Consumer Confidence In The Economy Weakening, How Will The Market Be Impacted?
  • MBIA Loses AAA Rating From Fitch
  • Morgan Stanley: More of Its Assets Are Hard to Value
  • Wall Street May Cut 35% of Jobs
  • "Safe" Bond Funds Get the Blues
  • At Last, Federal Regulators Probe Misrepresentations Used to Sell Auction-Rate Securities
  • The Housing and Mortgage Markets Are Much Worse Than It Appears
  • Noted Economist Predicts That Investors Will Lose $1 Trillion in Mortgage-Backed Securities
  • Does Broker Compensation Plan Violate State Law?
  • Wall Street Firms Abandon Auction Rate Securities Leaving Investors Holding The Bag
  • More Subprime Problems Ahead: Home Prices Hit Record Lows Across the U.S.
  • SunTrust Sued For Auction Rate Securities
  • Problems Ahead For More Subprime Securities
  • UBS Admits It Mischaracterized Auction Rate Securities
  • Auction Rate Securities:"Liquid Assets" That You Can't Sell
  • Auction Rate Securities Update
  • $330 Billion Market for Auction Rate Securities Frozen, Yet Brokers Still Get Paid: Regulators Investigate
  • Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities Are Losing Value
  • Former Bear Stearns Chairman Sells All of His Stock: What Does He Know That We Don't?
  • Another Hedge Fund Falters
  • Merrill Lynch's Subprime Problems to Continue
  • Analyst Expects More Big Subprime Losses for Citigroup
  • Schwab Fund Sold as Money Market Drops by Twenty-Two Percent
  • Bear Stearns' Collapse Affects Main Street America
  • Wall Street Expected to Pare More Jobs as Liquidity Concerns Spread
  • Faltering Hedge Funds Threaten Financial Markets
  • Credit Default Swaps Pose a Risk to U.S. Bond Funds
  • Investors: Beware the "Safety Net" Trap Associated with Equity Indexed Annuities and Variable Annuities
  • Bank of America: More Subprime Problems Ahead?
  • Bear Stearns Fire Sale Creates a Frenzy in the Financial Markets
  • Can Other Firms Avoid Bear Stearns' Fate?
  • Investors Bet On Rival Bear Bids
  • Subprime Lawsuit Tsunami On The Horizon
  • Merrill Lynch And Bond Insurer Fight It Out In Court
  • Wall Street Firms Scramble To Raise Cash And Stabilize Operations
  • Is Merrill At Risk?
  • Bear Stearns' Bailout: The US Is Now Officially On The Road To Becoming "Bailout Nation"
  • Will Proposed Changes Provide Any Significant Relief For The Frozen Auction-Rate Securities Market?
  • Have Bear Stearns Shareholders Been Shortchanged In The JP Morgan Sale?
  • Is Lehman Brothers Next?
  • Rocky Days Ahead For Bank And Brokerage Stocks
  • Citigroup Drops Another Billion To Bail Out Six Proprietary Hedge Funds
  • Investors Are Being Misled About The Real Values Of Their Subprime Securities Holdings
  • Has The Fed Lost Its Head? The Federal Reserve Acts To Pass Off Wall Street Losses To The U.S. Taxpayer
  • Ambac Credit Rating Saved By $1.5 Billion In Capital
  • Home Mortgage Crisis: Disaster Ahead
  • Has Bear Stearns Run Out Of Money?
  • Banks Work To Keep Money Funds From "Breaking The Buck"
  • More Problems Valuing Derivative Securities
  • After The Double Bubbles Burst
  • Wealth Declines For Homeowners As Home Equity Dips Below 50%
  • Foreclosures Reach A Record 1 Million Homes
  • UBS: It Just Doesn't Get It
  • CDOs And Other Subprime Securities Sold In 2006 And 2007 -- Doomed From The Start?
  • Investors Sue UBS Over Misconduct Related To Subprime And Other Credit Market Woes
  • Problems Facing Alt-A Mortgage-Backed Securities Pose Latest Threat To Investors
  • FINRA Panel Awards Brokerage Executive $3.9 Million in Employment Dispute
  • Financially Stressed Consumers Use Credit To Stay Afloat
  • Controversy Continues Over Arbitration Study Findings
  • NASAA's 2008 Legislative Agenda
  • "We're From The Government ... And We're Here To Sell You Long Term Care Insurance"
  • Subprime Probes Slowed By Complexity
  • International Investor Announces Intent To Sue UBS Over Subprime Losses
  • High Interest Payday Lenders Trap Seniors, Veterans And The Disabled
  • $286 Million Auction Rate Securities Loss?
  • Bond Insurers To Be Split?
  • New York's Rescue Plan For Bond Insurers May Cause Additional Subprime Losses
  • The Subprime Crisis Strikes Again: Auction-Rate Bond Market Now Vulnerable
  • Credit Crunch Causes A Myriad Of Regulatory And Legal Actions
  • Allianz Agrees To $10.1 Million Settlement With California Insurance Regulator But Still Faces Class Action Claims
  • Bond Insurer FGIC Downgraded Again, Seeks To Split--Litigation Likely To Follow
  • Spitzer: Subprime Crisis May Cause A "Tsunami" For U.S. Economy
  • Past Due Mortgage Payments On The Rise
  • American Equity And Minnesota AG Settle Annuity Lawsuit
  • Common Mortgage Scams Target Seniors
  • Criminal Probe Of Bear Stearns May Center On Investor Call
  • Subprime Investors And Investment Banks Face Billions Of Additional Losses
  • Citigroup Bans Investor Withdrawals From Hedge Fund
  • Losses In State Street Bond Funds Take Heavy Toll On Pension Plans, Non-Profits and Institutional Accounts
  • Four Investment Options To Avoid
  • Complex Annuity Products Make Retirement Investing Difficult
  • Risky Trading As An Addictive High, Say Researchers
  • Spitzer Protege Drives Bond-Insurer Rescue Talks
  • SEC Settlement Reached In Hong Kong-Linked Insider Trading Case
  • More Bad News For Wall Street -- Federal Prosecutors Investigating Merrill Lynch, UBS And Bear Stearns Over Subprime Securities
  • Securities Arbitration Participants Say Process Is Unfair
  • S&P Downgrades To Push Losses Over $265 Billion
  • Elder Abuses
  • CDO Ratings To Fall As Rating Agencies Overhaul Criteria
  • Subprime Investments Explode But Many Of Those Responsible Land On Their Feet
  • Early Retirement Scams
  • UBS Investigated For Improperly Valuing Mortgage Bonds And Related Securities
  • Massachusetts Sues Merrill Lynch Over Inappropriate CDO Sales To Municipalities
  • Merrill Lynch Acknowledges Impropriety Of Selling Subprime-Backed CDOs To A Municipality
  • State Street Blamed For Houston Police Retirement Fund Losses
  • UBS AG Reports $11.4 Billion Loss And $14 Billion Write-Down As A Result Of Subprime Meltdown
  • Bond Insurers MBIA And Ambac To Incur Predicted Subprime-Related Losses Of $11.6 Billion Each
  • Bond Insurer FGIC Misses Deadline And Loses AAA Fitch Rating
  • MetLife And Investment Firm BlackRock Sued Over Subprime-Linked Losses
  • Home Equity Crisis: Banks That Dodged Subprime Bullet Still Face Loss
  • Citigroup/JPMorgan Chase React To The Subprime Crunch
  • Is The Market's Doomsday Scenario Here?
  • Securities Fraud Class Action Pleading Victory For Plaintiffs
  • Wall Street Firms Investigated For Withholding Material Information On Riskiest Subprime Loans
  • Subprime Liquidations -- More Chaos Ahead
  • Financial Advisors vs. Investment Advisers vs. Brokers: Rand Corporation Study Concludes That Investing Public Sees Them All The Same
  • Wall Street Job Cuts Expected
  • State Street Corporation Hunkers Down Over Suits For Pension Fund Losses, According to New York Times
  • New York Times Reports Settlement of Subprime Case Against Morgan Keegan
  • Moody's Downgrades SIVs; Money Market Funds At Risk; SIVs Unable To Meet Debt Obligations Without Selling Assets At Fire-Sale Prices
  • Bear Stearns Hit With Eleven New Claims Involving Tanked Funds
  • Wall Street: New York Attorney General Subpoenas Firms as Part of Investigation into Subprime Mortgage Debacle
  • Freddie Mac Loses $2 Billion in 3Q 2007; More Losses Forecasted; Senator Shumer Worried About Soundness of Federal Home Loan Banking System
  • Bear Stearns: Massachusetts Accuses Firm of Fraud in Mortgage-Backed Securities Trades
  • Investors Suffer Large Losses in Morgan Keegan Bond Funds
  • Why Mortgage-Backed Securities And CDO Problems Are Getting Worse
  • Annuity Product Marketers Sidestep No-Call Lists
  • More Problems For Ameriprise: The State of New Hampshire Alleges Widespread Fraud
  • Merrill Lynch's Subprime Woes Mount
  • UBS Financial Services Fined For Failing To Report Customer Complaints, Regulatory Actions and Criminal Disclosures
  • Bear Stearns' Hedge Fund Problems Worsen
  • AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL, INC. - IS THERE A FIRM-WIDE PROBLEM?
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  • Senate Holds Hearing On Controversial “Certified Senior Advisor” Titles And Allianz Life Insurance’s Annuity Sales Practices
  • Alleged Manipulator Charged With Securities Fraud
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