by Reuters | Aug 21, 2019
President Donald Trump on Wednesday continued to pressure the Federal Reserve and the central bank’s chairman to lower interest rates, saying its policies were hampering U.S. growth and reducing the country’s ability to compete economically.
by Reuters | Nov 13, 2018
Amazon.com Inc. has selected New York and Northern Virginia for its second headquarters, ending a more than year-long contest that has seen frenzied bidding from locales across North America.
by Reuters | Nov 12, 2018
Private equity firm Veritas Capital and hedge fund Elliott Management are buying Athenahealth Inc. for about $5.7 billion, the U.S. health care software maker said on Monday.
by Reuters | Jul 31, 2018
U.S. consumer spending increased solidly in June as households spent more on restaurants and accommodation, building a strong base for the economy heading into the third quarter, while inflation rose moderately.
by Reuters | Jun 26, 2018
Wells Fargo & Co. introduced a new credit card rewards program on Monday, aiming to stand out against other benefit-heavy cards and gain more of a foothold in a market where it has lagged rivals.
by Reuters | Jun 25, 2018
Investors have reached $96 million in settlements with the final five defendants in private U.S. litigation accusing banks of rigging a key interest rate benchmark in the global derivatives market, boosting the total payout to more than $500 million.
by Reuters | Jun 20, 2018
Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch unit admitted to misleading brokerage customers about which firms processed their trades and agreed to pay a $42 million fine under a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Tuesday.
by Reuters | Jun 19, 2018
Wells Fargo & Co. said Monday it is considering restructuring and possibly combining two of its retail brokerage businesses, a move to increase efficiency among the two legacy units.
by Reuters | Jun 18, 2018
A proposal to simplify a rule banning banks from proprietary trading, rather than making life easier for Wall Street, could ensnare billions of dollars’ worth of assets not currently caught by the regulation.
by Reuters | Jun 15, 2018
Wells Fargo & Co. said on Friday a district court in California approved a $142 million class-action settlement to compensate customers who were affected by a sales scandal related to the opening of phony bank accounts.
by Reuters | Jun 14, 2018
A Mexican real estate developer has filed a $1.2 billion lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase & Co. of fraudulently inducing it to transfer properties based on a false promise it would sell them.
by Reuters | Jun 11, 2018
At its Silicon Valley headquarters, network gear maker Cisco Systems Inc. is going to unusual lengths to take control of the relentless increase in its U.S. health care costs.
by Reuters | Jun 8, 2018
A U.S. bank regulator said on Thursday that an industry-wide review prompted by Wells Fargo & Co.’s sales practices scandal had uncovered some instances of phony accounts at other lenders but little evidence of a “systemic” problem.
by Reuters | Jun 7, 2018
Wells Fargo & Co. is pulling back from retail banking in the U.S. Midwest, selling all of its branches in three states, as the bank embarks on a broader review of branch profitability across the country.
by Reuters | Jun 6, 2018
An acute shortage of affordable homes in the United States will continue over the coming year, according to a majority of property market analysts polled by Reuters, driving prices up faster than inflation and wage growth.
by Reuters | Jun 5, 2018
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer Sergey Aleynikov on Monday filed a new challenge to his criminal conviction of stealing computer code from the investment bank when he left for another job.
by Reuters | Jun 1, 2018
Federal prosecutors charged a vice president at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Thursday with insider trading by illegally using non-public information about several companies that were clients of the investment bank.
by Reuters | May 31, 2018
U.S. regulators on Wednesday proposed simplifying a rule introduced after the 2007-2009 financial crisis that bans banks from trading on their own account in order to make compliance easier for many firms.
by Reuters | May 21, 2018
The U.S. gun lobby is taking aim at “gun-hating” banks after Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America said they would no longer provide certain banking services to gun-makers, according to industry lobbyists.
by Reuters | May 17, 2018
Some employees in a Wells Fargo & Co. unit that handles business banking improperly changed information on documents related to corporate customers, the Wall street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.