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Pemex Seeks to Add Conoco, Shell Subsidiaries to Suit

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 11:19
Pemex has filed a motion to add ConocoPhillips and subsidiaries of Shell PLC to a 2010 suit that seeks damages against companies that had allegedly purchased natural-gas condensate that Pemex said was stolen from its operations in northern Mexico.


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Pemex Seeks to Add Conoco, Shell Subsidiaries to Suit

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 11:19
Pemex has filed a motion to add ConocoPhillips and subsidiaries of Shell PLC to a 2010 suit that seeks damages against companies that had allegedly purchased natural-gas condensate that Pemex said was stolen from its operations in northern Mexico.


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Senate Passes Insider-Trading Ban

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:11
The Senate voted 96-3 to approve a bill banning lawmakers from trading stocks based on information picked up in the halls of Congress.


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U.S. Charges Swiss Bank in Tax Case

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 00:01
Swiss private bank Wegelin was indicted on charges that it facilitated tax fraud by U.S. taxpayers, the Justice Department said.


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U.S. Charges Swiss Bank in Tax Case

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 00:01
Swiss private bank Wegelin was indicted on charges that it facilitated tax fraud by U.S. taxpayers, the Justice Department said.


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U.K. Police Probe '09 Email Hacking

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 00:01
U.K. police are investigating, at a politician's request, a 2009 email-hacking incident at News Corp.'s Times of London.


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U.K. Police Probe '09 Email Hacking

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 00:01
U.K. police are investigating, at a politician's request, a 2009 email-hacking incident at News Corp.'s Times of London.


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Pickup in Stickups Puzzles Police

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 21:58
In January, 40 bank robberies were reported in Southern California, nearly double the 21 reported a year earlier.


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Samsung: Court Rejects Apple Bid

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 02:58
Samsung Electronics said the Munich Regional Court has rejected Apple's request to ban sales in Germany of the Korean company's tablet computers and Nexus smartphones.


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Samsung: Court Rejects Apple Bid

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 02:58
Samsung Electronics said the Munich Regional Court has rejected Apple's request to ban sales in Germany of the Korean company's tablet computers and Nexus smartphones.


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Guilty Pleas in Bond Case Hit 'Mark'

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 00:01
Prosecutors unveiled criminal charges against three former Credit Suisse employees in a mortgage-bond probe tied to the financial crisis.


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Hacking Email Was Deleted

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 00:01
News Corp. lawyers said that, during an IT upgrade in early 2011, the company deleted an email from the inbox of James Murdoch in which company counsel spelled out a plaintiff's claim that phone-hacking was widespread at News of the World.


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Law Grads Claim Schools Misled

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 00:01
Lawsuits accusing a number of U.S. law schools of fudging post-graduate employment statistics were filed amid mounting controversy over the high cost of tuition and grim job prospects for debt-laden graduates.


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Law Grads Claim Schools Misled

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 00:01
Lawsuits accusing a number of U.S. law schools of fudging post-graduate employment statistics were filed amid mounting controversy over the high cost of tuition and grim job prospects for debt-laden graduates.


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Hacking Email Was Deleted

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 00:01
News Corp. lawyers said that, during an IT upgrade in early 2011, the company deleted an email from the inbox of James Murdoch in which company counsel spelled out a plaintiff's claim that phone-hacking was widespread at News of the World.


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Guilty Pleas in Bond Case Hit 'Mark'

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 00:01
Prosecutors unveiled criminal charges against three former Credit Suisse employees in a mortgage-bond probe tied to the financial crisis.


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Pesky Question of How Firms Value Exotic Securities

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 20:36
Allegations that several former Credit Suisse Group AG employees misstated bond values revive a thorny question for investors: whether to trust the valuations companies assign their riskiest, most-illiquid assets.


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Pesky Question of How Firms Value Exotic Securities

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 20:36
Allegations that several former Credit Suisse Group AG employees misstated bond values revive a thorny question for investors: whether to trust the valuations companies assign their riskiest, most-illiquid assets.


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Prosecutors Cite Sale of Secrets

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 18:48
U.S. prosecutors say they have confiscated documents from a California man in which he admits to obtaining DuPont trade secrets and selling them to companies affiliated with the Chinese government.


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Judge Declares Mistrial in Bribery 'Sting' Case

Wed, 02/01/2012 - 00:01
A federal judge declared a mistrial in a case against three businesspeople charged with taking part in what undercover agents told them was a plan to bribe the defense minister of Gabon for a military contract.


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