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In spring 2008, Lehman Brothers didn't have too many friends on Wall Street.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday said the court-appointed examiner of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc could release his report to the public in full, including all supporting documents.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc has sued the U.S. government, asking for the return of some $110 million that the bankrupt investment firm said it overpaid in taxes and penalties in 1999 and 2000.

Lehman Brothers used a small company called Hudson Castle to shift investments off its own books before it collapsed, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

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Warren Buffett has taken steps to minimize disruption for the day he steps down from the helm of Berkshire Hathaway Inc , but concern over his succession and a weaker insurance environment limits the stock's growth potential, Barclays Capital said.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc told a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Friday that Barclays Plc should be forced to return certain assets it received in its 2008 acquisition of Lehman's core U.S. brokerage, because Barclays arranged a secret $5 billion discount.

Barclays Capital Inc has asked a court to let it keep billions of dollars in Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc assets, even though the trustee of the bankrupt investment bank says the remaining Lehman customers should probably get them.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said on Monday it believes claims from creditors against its bankruptcy estate should be cut to $605 billion, according to a document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

British fund firm Jupiter's high-profile investor in financial stocks, Philip Gibbs, has put more than half his fund into cash as uncertainty around the UK election and western government debt hamper visibility.

A former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc executive warned months before the bank's collapse that senior management was potentially misleading investors and regulators about the value of the firm's assets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee on Friday wrote to the Justice Department urging establishment of a task force to probe possible violations of the law at Lehman Brothers and other firms.

A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday barred the financial news service Theflyonthewall.com from issuing immediate news about analyst research from several Wall Street banks, often before recommendations are shared with clients.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc fired new allegations at Barclays Capital Inc on Thursday, saying the British investment bank got a $13 billion windfall profit from its deal to buy Lehman's U.S. brokerage in September 2008.

A bankruptcy judge said on Wednesday Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc could delay until mid-April filing a detailed disclosure statement for its proposed plan to end its bankruptcy.

A bankruptcy judge said Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc could delay until mid-April filing a detailed disclosure statement for its proposed plan to end its bankruptcy.

A House panel will hold a hearing exploring regulatory failures leading up to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, after a court-appointed examiner report found elaborate accounting tricks that helped to hide the investment bank's insolvency.

A Republican lawmaker requested a congressional hearing on a bankruptcy examiner's report on Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc , saying the findings cast doubts on the Federal Reserve's supervisory role.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc ousted whistle blower Matthew Lee just weeks after he had raised concerns with Lehman's auditor about the firm's accounting in 2008, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Barclays Plc considered UBS AG its preferred merger target just weeks before it bought U.S. assets from the collapsed Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc , the Financial Times said in its online edition on Monday.

The court appointed examiner of the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy said the company 'doubled-down' on risky trading activity in 2007, exceeding its own limits as the sub-prime mortgage business was developing into a crisis.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc used accounting gimmicks and had been insolvent for weeks before it filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, but there was not extensive wrongdoing, a court-appointed examiner has found.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc used accounting gimmicks and had been insolvent for weeks before it filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, but there was not extensive wrongdoing, a court-appointed examiner has found.

The report by a court-appointed examiner into the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, was made public on Thursday.

The court-appointed examiner who investigated the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers Holding Co is set to make his report public after a judge ruled he could do so on Thursday.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc used accounting gimmicks and had been insolvent for weeks before it filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, a court-appointed examiner said, but he did not find extensive wrongdoing.

Barclays is on the lookout to buy a retail bank in the United States, according to reports, to build on its successful investment bank build-up there and create a buffer against regulatory reform.

British bank Barclays Plc is looking to buy a retail bank in the United States to extend its presence after buying Lehman Brothers North American operations in 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people close to the matter.

MetLife Inc pursued AIG's foreign life insurance business for two years before finally clinching a $15.5 billion purchase that will give it beachheads in 47 nations from Peru to Bangladesh.