Bank of America Corp's $8.5 billion settlement to clear up its mortgage bond mess isn't a done deal and could be challenged -- if the large number of investors locked out of negotiations decide to organize.
One of the biggest oil market manipulation cases undertaken by regulators is entering a new phase in which a judge will mediate settlement talks, three years after the case was launched.
Brazilian authorities claimed recently to have pinpointed the location of a community of 200 ancient and uncontacted tribespeople in one of the most remote corners of the world's largest rainforest. But, who are they and who is working to help them?
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Bank of America, AK Steel Holding, Archer Daniels Midland, Analog Devices, Legg Mason, Monsanto, United States Steel, KB Home, General Mills and Family Dollar Stores.
Bank of America Corp is close to a deal to pay $8.5 billion to settle claims from a group of powerful investors that lost money on mortgage-backed securities, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
The residents of Bugarach, a small hamlet in southern France, are both shocked and perturbed by the rising influx of doomsday believers who are convinced that their tiny town is the only place that will survive the 2012 judgment day.
Actor Ryan O‘Neal is allegedly being investigated for a missing Andy Warhol painting of Farah Fawcett worth $30 million.
Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling upholding their $65 million settlement with Facebook Inc and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, signaling the possible end of the long-running dispute.
Federal bankruptcy court approved on Thursday a settlement between the Lehman Brothers brokerage and JPMorgan Chase & Co in which the bank will return more than $800 million of cash and securities to resolve claims brought by the Lehman trustee.
Former Washington Mutual Inc Chief Executive Kerry Killinger and two of his top lieutenants are nearing a settlement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp over the failure of what was the largest U.S. savings and loan.
Mobile giant Nokia said it has signed a patent license deal with Apple that would end all the pending patent litigations between the two companies over iPhone, iPod and iPad.
Diageo, the world's largest spirits group, is close to a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to end a long-running bribery investigation, the Financial Times reported.
HSBC said it agreed to pay $62.5 million to settle a class action brought against it in the United States over its role in providing administrative services to a fund which placed cash with Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff.
A U.S. judge approved a class action settlement over Google's Buzz social network, and awarded $500,000 to an Internet privacy group that had previously been left out of the proposed deal.
TiVo Inc , which makes digital video recorders, reported a quarterly profit, reversing a year ago loss, thanks to the blockbuster patent settlement it reached with Dish Network Corp and EchoStar Corp .
Government negotiators plan to squeeze big banks for a larger settlement over mortgage servicing flaws when the two sides meet in Washington on Tuesday.
Bank of America Corp has won tentative approval of a $410 million settlement of lawsuits accusing it of charging excessive overdraft fees to roughly 1 million customers.
LimeWire, a major peer-to-peer (P2P) company that was accused by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) of being a platform for illegal music transfers, has been let off lightly as it settled the dispute at $105 million, far short of $1.4 billion that was first sought by the plaintiffs.
Following a 5 year legal standoff between peer-to-peer (P2P) boss LimeWire and the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.), the two sides have agreed to settle the music piracy dispute for $105 million.
Online pharmacies selling counterfeit drugs or not requiring prescriptions advertised on Google. Google allowed it to continue and now is setting aside $500 million to ward off criminal charges by settling.
Google Inc is close to settling a U.S. criminal probe into allegations that it made hundreds of millions of dollars from online pharmacy ads that break U.S. laws, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: IncrediMail, VeriSign, Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Symantec, and JetBlue Airways. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Wilshire Bancorp, Cisco Systems, Shire, ARM Holdings, and Sohu.com.
